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Re: German politics is very smart
by jack_cerf

From some of your posts on other threads, you seem to be nostalgic for the good old pre-capitalist days of over-staffed enterprises making goods no one wanted kept afloat by government decree. Perhaps you'd like to see the Lenin Shipyard come back. That's not happening. Either Polish enterprises will pay their own way, or they'll go under.

Communism went broke, and its assets are being liquidated by those who can afford to buy them. An industrial workforce cheap by German standards is what gives Poland (and Hungary, Slovakia and the CR) an economic advantage over the former DDR in attracting foreign investment. If German capital didn't find Polish factories attractive to buy and run with capitalist efficiency, they'd be empty. At least the EU gives industrious Poles the chance to find work legally all over Europe.

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