Who is to blame for economic “growth” that leaves middle class people out in the cold? Is it the unrestrained greed of international banks, or immigrants and a turning away from traditional family values? Poland’s Law & Justice party just won big with a new answer to that question – “BOTH”
What’s changing the political landscape is discontent over economic prospects as Poland endures widening regional gaps in prosperity and an exodus of workers to western Europe. More than a fifth of Polish workers make less than the $720 a-month poverty threshold. The number of Poles living abroad has more than doubled in the past decade to 2.3 million.
Beata Szydlo, Law & Justice’s candidate for prime minister, is poised to overhaul the $548 billion economy with pledges to raise taxes on the financial industry, increase spending on child support and start a 350 billion zloty ($90.5 billion) central bank loan program.
(The Law & Justice party) is close to the country’s powerful Roman Catholic Church and has promised increased benefits and tax breaks. It supports a ban on abortions and in-vitro fertilisation and believes a strong Nato is necessary to offset the perceived threat from Russia.
Not that they could… but if the American Right ever got the idea to be economically progressive and started hammering big business and banks, they would be formidable indeed. Hell… if thre Democrats avery got the idea to try that, they’s be formidable.