I would like to present peculiar situations in Poland. Firstly, I’ll show a short movie from a visit of our President Bronisław Komorowski at the building site of a bypass of Innowrocał city. Below you can watch a movie:
As
you may see in the presented video, machines were moving without any purpose just to create good background for this public
event for president Komorowski. The next day after the event there was only 1
working machine.
I
want you show another video from Bronislaw Komorowski’s visit in Japan:
You
can find many more similar events at polskie piekiełko. I don't have a possibility
to talk about all the situations from this site and that is why I have
selected the most interesting.
Probably you have heard about blablacar or some other type of communities from Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. which associate people who travel by car and want to decrease the cost of travel by traveling together. Our government is against such communities, because the income generated from such travels should be taxed. Here you can read something more about this situation.
Another situation concerns working pensioners who have to pay DLA(Disability Living Allowance) even though they will never get anything from that money because they are already retired. Here you can read something more about it.
Another great idea of our government is to prohibit cars with high emission of CO2
entering city centers or some other areas, what basically means that a lot people will not be able to enter some part of a city because those cars are not adjusted to the CO2
Here you can read a story about Aleksander Kowalczyk who went bankrupt when a tax office informed him that his company didn’t produce ice lollies but fruit juice and he had to pay the difference between taxes on ice loliles(7%) and fruit juice(23%).
Sources:
- http://polskiepiekielko.pl/
- http://polskiepiekielko.pl/posel-pis-chce-opodatkowania-wspolnych-przejazdow/
- http://polskiepiekielko.pl/zus-sciaga-od-pracujacych-emerytow-skladke-rentowa-choc-renty-nigdy-im-nie-przyzna/
- http://polskiepiekielko.pl/urzednicy-uswiadomili-przedsiebiorce-co-produkuje-w-rezultacie-jest-bankrutem/
- http://polskiepiekielko.pl/pomysl-platformy-do-centrum-miasta-wjedziesz-tylko-nowym-autem/
Comments
Our government have many stupid ideas and this with blabla, etc. is stupid as well
It is interesting who will be our new president. I’m not in politics very well but I think that candidates are a mockery. It so sad as well.
I still think over if I should go for elections and I still don’t know. In my opinion whole elections are the very big mockery.
I never understood people making big fuss about such uniportant situations like politician making an ortographic mistake, or not knowing where to stand (like in the second video you posted). Politicians are just people, and people make mistakes. There are loads of more important problems of politics, economy or environment to worry about. Topics like that remind me of sites like pudelek, where all people focus on is how tasteless someone's dress was, or that a film star wore the same outfit as the previous year. What a blooper indeed...
I definitely prefer to read articles like the next ones you posted, because they really show some absurd situations instead of focusing unimportant details of someone's public image. Unfortunately, bureaucracy often affects people lives in bad, twisted ways. It's good to publicise such cases, because it gives people the opportunity to react.
Further examples are more interesting for me but also not that uncommon. I've heard that Uber driving (something like blablacar) actually became illegal in few countries (I'm pretty sure Germany is one of them) because of taxi drivers lobbies and that's really unfortunate and terrible! Anyway at least it's still legal at Poland and I don't think anyone will really tax it. I guess our law stated that every income should be taxed but I think that people would work their way around (like with everything) call the service differently or whatever ;)
ZUS is the worst and I think everybody knows how ineffective this institution is ;)
A great idea to prohibit cars with high CO2 emission also isn't the idea of Polish government but it's common in many cities all over Europe and United States or Canada. In Berlin you have to pay to drive into the city centre and of course have a proper car. In Los Angeles your car has to meet up certain standards to even be LEGAL to drive and I don't find it to be that bad of a thing. They only allow cars that are truly safe to drive. Moreover we should care more about the environment and CO2 emission so bringing in new standards for cars was just a matter of time. I'm sure it will take years before this will come into effect.
Plus, it's not like people won't be physically able to enter the city center - we have public transport and I'm sure that it will work much more efficiently without car traffics in the city center.
Definitely, this solution also really cuts down the traffic. In European capitals it became a huge problem and fees for driving into the city centers really helped. And as I’ve said it will take years before it will be introduced in Poland. But I’m pretty sure that in a few years cars with high CO2 emission won’t be produced so they will “die” naturally.
I agree with you that others topic mentioned in my article are more important and in news should be more topic like this.
restrictions about using spices, I don't now what to do, should I laugh or cry. Most of our laws has holes as a Swiss cheese. Perhaps this is so because, in Poland, everything is done quickly,
without longer thought process and debate. I have no idea what should be done to change this state.
Your videos are even quite funny, bloomer can happen to anyone. Other thing is diplomatic behaviour protocol. I agree, think this video from construction site is a bit strange, but I understand motivation
of those films, everyone wants to be shown in positive lights, but there is thin border between typical, bad propaganda and situations like that. We should focus on more important topics like economy, law, environment.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/motley-mix-of-players-challenge-polish-president-in-election/2015/05/09/f10090f2-f612-11e4-bca5-21b51bbdf93e_story.html/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvojlJr6Gzg
where our previous prime minister is wonderfully presented :)
Just finished the first round of presidential elections and unofficial results shows taht Poles want political changes. I am very pleased with the results of anti-system candidates, and I hope that these changes will finally occur.
According to the prohibition for older cars to get into the city centre - I personally think it is not that bad idea. We still have public commute, but number of cars in the centre is just crazy. On the other hand our buses, trains, trams are full of people, so I can't event imagine an option of seeing any more of them in the public transportation, but still, this might be good solution for reducing car number in the city.
I think every country has its problems and weird political situations that might be more evident from others.
Take for example USA and their horrible health care system.
Here is an interesting article on that topic: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/15/bad-american-health-care-system.aspx
There are also plenty of ridiculous laws all around the world, there is even a dedicated website where you can browse almost all of them (not all are verified as actual law that can be enforced).
Give it a go, many of them are just hilarious: http://www.dumblaws.com/