The
city of Lodge (Lodz, Łódź) an informal capital of Central Poland,
is full of Christmas decorations designed to give the impression of
general prosperity and encourage customers to buy expensive gifts.
Unfortunately, all is not gold that glitters. In supermarkets, you
see the poor dirty devils more often than the rich men buying gold
watches.
In
the picture: shopping district of the shopping and entertainment
center Manufaktura. The staff of this extremely tolerant
international company (salespersons speak English, German or French),
unlike some other hypermarket chains, does not stalk the poorest
people or drive them out. Of course there are some limits of
behaviour allowed at every public place, but these are easily
distinguishable from the politics whose name begins with the A
letter.
In
the small town of Zelow, which is characterized by Protestantism,
a non-profit organization set up a kind of refrigerator on Szkolna
Street (charytatywna lodówka przy ulicy Szkolnej), which everyone
can fill with food. Those who need food aid can then take it out to
satisfy their hunger. According to another charity operating across
the country, two million people live below the poverty line in
Poland, fighting for biological survival. Briefly explained, in the
Republic of Poland, where the government is assuring everybody that
an economic miracle (or another Miracle on the Rhine) is taking
place, there are two million inhabitants who, even if they have a
roof over their heads, do not get something to eat every day.
Three
times two million: What kind of economic equation is that?
In
addition to these two million, there are about two
million Polish citizens
who have left permanently for Britain, Ireland and the Scandinavian
countries
in search of work
and conditions for establishing
a new family. We should also remember two
million Ukrainian citizens
who want to stay in our country for at least a few years because
they have found a job here
and have not been able to get a job in Ukraine. Just
like that!
I
do not intend to make a suggestion to solve puzzles here, so I
explain that poverty
and misery in Poland are currently mainly targeting people over 50
years old.
Their
children moved to Western Europe. There they have their own expenses:
for the upkeep of small children, for the construction of a house,
etc. They cannot afford any significant material help in favor of
their getting old parents. And these parents already
once
had to endure for many years without a steady job
due to the horrors of shock
therapy
and intentionally
caused
bankruptcy of the vast majority of Polish industry in the 1990s.
In
the case of many of these not-so-old men and women, they could still
work, but there is no work for them, as the Ukrainians agree to work
for a lower wage than the one paid to the Poles (but I don't blame them, as they were also forced to do so). That ended a short
period in which you could get a fairly well-paid full-time or
part-time job in Poland. Some obvious facts presented...
Can
food distribution help with ever new food banks under these
circumstances?
That’s
quite a rhetorical question, although the fact that the
organizers of this initiative
want to help those most in need in this way is, of
course, laudable.
As
well as the fact that they want to make sure that wealthy people do
not throw food into trashcans because they sometimes have too much
food or the expiration date of their food, which they no longer want
to eat, will follow soon. This is the third initiative of its kind in
Central Poland.
In
the reality, an average Pole is not a drinker or drug addict, but a
hardworking man whom you can rely on in any situation, provided he’s
treated well
To
proclaim that the homeless and the hungry people are lame ducks is to
look for an excuse for
not to do anything for them. That‘s what some manufacturers which
were at the same time social reformers
of the 19th century already found out
at that time. They established something like royal republics here in
Central Poland, where factory owners shared their wealth with the
workers.
Being
liberated from misery and worries about the future, the workers
thanked them with great labor productivity. These few factory
owners of German, Jewish and French nationality became kings of
cotton products throughout the Russian Empire. Perhaps there will
finally be someone who will follow the good example and use this
reserve army of work, before their soldiers starve to death.
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