In Sweden, the government is all about cooking up ideas to EXPAND social benefits, give you MORE TIME OFF, pay people stipends for their paid bvacations/b (yeah, stipends ? spending money to make sure you have a good time!) In the US, the government, b....../b Today's Poland may call itself Rzeczpospolita, but the real Rzeczpospolita with its authentic institutions and traditions ? the Golden Liberty, and nihil novi, and magnates, and bszlachta/b? ? was obliterated in 1795, ...
In the Poland he returns to, power rests in the hands of about 10% of the population, the bszlachta/b and the magnaci, that is the noble bestate/b, while the bulk of the population are peasant serfs. These are obliged to work so many days a b.../b
Perhaps Zbig is dreaming of restoring Greater Poland circa 1600 - from the Black Sea to the Baltic, all controlled by petty bszlachta/b aristocrats like... the Brzezinskis? The Economist blog put it best: "A new brain for Barack Obama! It's 78 years old and it still b...../b Talk show monolith Oprah Winfrey welcomed more than $3.4M in donations for Barack Obama at her 9/08 fund-raiser, a Gastby-like affair at her 42-acre bestate/b here on Santa Barbara's pristine, pricey coast. b.../b
