-- THE PROSPERITY OF PEOPLE AND THE COUNTRY LARGELY STEMS FROM WORK, AND IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ITS PRODUCTIVITY TO CONTINUE TO GROW, FOR THE WORKING PERIOD TO BE EXTENDED, BECAUSE LIFE EXPECTANCY HAS BEEN RISING FOR YEARS - MAREK TATAŁA, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM, WHICH IS IMPLEMENTING THE TERAZPRACA.ORG.PL PROJECT, IN AN ARTICLE FOR 300POLITYKA: “As Prime Minister Tusk said in his expose, ‘Poles who work must have evidence that the state respects their effort above all, that people who work hard will truly know that it makes sense, that it is a matter of their chance for prosperity, but also a matter of dignity.’ It would be good if the new ruling coalition shifts its focus towards appreciating working people, unlike Law and Justice, which heavily emphasized growing transfers to those professionally inactive, including retirees. Yes – the prosperity of people and the country largely stems from work, and it is important for labor productivity to continue to grow (and along with it, not detached from it, wages), and for the working period to be extended, because life expectancy and professional activity of people living in Poland have been rising for years.” -- INSTEAD OF FURTHER POLICIES INCREASING DEMAND FOR HOUSING (E.G., VARIOUS SUBSIDIZED LOANS), AN INCREASE IN HOUSING SUPPLY IS NEEDED - TATAŁA CONTINUES: “The coalition agreement also includes two points that, while not directly related to work, are significant for labor productivity and professional activity. These concern agriculture and housing. In the former area, it is important that actions do not artificially encourage individuals who could move to more productive sectors of the economy to remain in agriculture. Poland already has a problem with an excessive number of people working in agriculture compared to other EU economies. As McKinsey & Company stated in its report on the future of the Polish economy, ‘If Poland had the same productivity per hectare and per person as Germany, then 1.2 million people working in agriculture could take up employment in other sectors of the economy, and despite this, the value of agricultural production would increase by over 40 percent.’ In turn, the availability of housing is important for internal migration, as many of the most productive jobs are created in cities. Here, instead of further policies increasing demand for housing (e.g., various subsidized loan schemes), an increase in housing supply is needed. In other words, more properties must be built where people want to live and migrate – the private sector has a key role to play here, which cannot be replaced by various state housing programs.” https://300polityka.pl/news/2024/01/05/marek-tatala-dla-300-teraz-praca-najwazniejsze-wyzwania-dla-nowego-rzadu/ -- LEWICA WILL CONSIDER VOTING AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT'S CREDIT PROJECT - MARIA KORCZ IN GW: “As Wyborcza.biz has learned, the Together party does not intend to support the housing program for young people announced on January 4th. The entire Lewica parliamentary club will consider a similar decision in a few days. (...) – The announcement of this program is worrying for us. It was not consulted with the Lewica club, and we did not participate in its preparation, which we pointed out already at the Council of Ministers meeting on January 3rd. A meeting is currently underway at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, concerning this matter, among others – states Anna Maria Żukowska, the leader of the Lewica parliamentary club.” https://wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,147758,30562347,pierwsze-problemy-w-koalicji-lewica-nie-wiedziala-o-mieszkaniu.html -- ANNA MARIA-ŻUKOWSKA ON TWITTER: In its current form, being a desideratum of one of the parties, it will not find our support. Therefore, it will be amended, following the remarks made by Lewica. https://x.com/AM_Zukowska/status/1743025670727352434?s=20 -- THE STATE WILL ONCE AGAIN FINANCE THE INVESTMENTS OF THE WEALTHIER PART OF SOCIETY, LEAVING OTHERS OUT IN THE COLD - ANTON AMBROZIAK IN OKO.PRESS: “The safe 2% credit benefited mainly developers, banks, and homeowners, whose assets grew from pumping up market prices. How will it be this time? According to experts, credit subsidies act like drugs on the housing market. The state will once again finance the investments of the wealthier part of society, leaving others out in the cold.” https://oko.press/programu-mieszkanie-na-star -- ACTIVISTS FROM PODLASIE AND PEOPLE INVOLVED IN HELPING MIGRANTS AT THE POLISH-BELARUSIAN BORDER DO NOT HIDE THEIR DISAPPOINTMENT WITH DONALD TUSK'S GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. AS THEY SAY, THEY COUNTED ON AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO PUSH-BACKS, I.E., EXPULSIONS TO BELARUS, AND NOTHING OF THE SORT IS HAPPENING - TOK.FM. https://www.tokfm.pl/Tokfm/7,189651,30562947,od-powstania-rzadu-nikt-ani-z-ministrow-ani-sam-premier-nie.html -- TRZASKOWSKI BEFORE THE DRESS REHEARSAL. IF IT SUCCEEDS IN WARSAW, WILL IT SUCCEED IN ALL OF POLAND? - RAFAŁ KALUKIN IN TYGODNIK POLITYKA: “And if it works in Warsaw, it will also work in all of Poland. This is a model intended to serve as the foundation for next year's campaign. Developed on various occasions in many ways. Also due to the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising this summer. Two decades ago, the then-Mayor of the capital, Lech Kaczyński, patronized the creation of a modern museum, indirectly unleashing a suppressed wave of grassroots patriotism. However, in the romantic cult of heroic sacrifice beloved by the right. Two decades later, Trzaskowski wants to use the anniversary of the Uprising to revise the patriotic canon, imbue it with positive meanings, emerge from the darkness, and fill it with hope. Back then, the celebrations were Kaczyński's springboard to the Presidential Palace. Will history repeat itself?” -- THE PRIME MINISTER HAS MANY REASONS TO MANAGE THE CERTAINLY INEVITABLE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN TRZASKOWSKI AND HOŁOWNIA - KALUKIN WRITES FURTHER: “The Prime Minister has many reasons to manage the certainly inevitable confrontation between Trzaskowski and Hołownia. On the one hand, the presidential elections are crucial for him; without regaining the second center of executive power, his government will remain bumpy. On the other hand, he cannot allow the dispute within the democratic family to escalate too much, as it could threaten the coalition. And thirdly, he must consider the interests of Platforma, constantly balance its structures, and maintain morale, perhaps even thinking about succession at some point. And Trzaskowski is too important a figure in the party to give him free rein or leave him to his own devices.” -- IT IS ALSO SAID IN THE CIRCLE OF THE PRESIDENT OF WARSAW THAT HOŁOWNIA, WHO IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING THE APEX OF HIS PERSONAL POPULARITY, SHOULD BE GRATEFUL TO TRZASKOWSKI - KALUKIN AGAIN: “Therefore, much indicates that significant processes in our politics will henceforth be decided in the Tusk – Trzaskowski – Hołownia triangle. What may seem natural today, but was not at all the case before October 15th. It is also said in the circle of the President of Warsaw that Hołownia, who is currently experiencing the apex of his personal popularity, should be grateful to Trzaskowski. It was he who, in the final stretch of the recent campaign, allegedly persuaded Tusk to ease the pressure on the Third Way and legitimize it in the eyes of the democratic electorate, rather than pushing it towards the threshold.” https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2240013,1,trzaskowski-przed-proba-generalna-jesli-uda-sie-w-warszawie-to-i-w-calej-polsce.read -- THE WORDS OF JAN PIETRZAK, MAREK KRÓL, OR MAREK JAKUBIAK ARE THE RESULT OF THE RADICALIZATION OF THE RIGHT. THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN AND THE WORDS OF JAROSŁAW KACZYŃSKI HIMSELF ALSO GAVE PERMISSION FOR HATE SPEECH - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: “The dehumanization of migrants, the weaving of Nazi fantasies about concentration camps for foreigners, however terrifying, is a direct consequence of such policy. (...) All of this – however unacceptable – is simply a consequence of the words spoken during the campaign, the emotions that were evoked then. These emotions have remained somewhere in people. And poisoned words bear their poisoned fruit. Ideas have consequences, and election campaigns do too.” https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art39656141-michal-szuldrzynski-pietrzak-krol-jakubiak-w-telewizji-republika-dlaczego-prawica-nienawidzi-migrantow -- THE CLAIM THAT A DECISION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE RP FROM SEVERAL YEARS AGO PARDONS A PUNISHMENT ORDERED IN A DIFFERENT JUDGMENT SEVERAL YEARS LATER IS OF A LEGAL SCIENCE FICTION NATURE. THIS IS NO LONGER JUST ATTRIBUTING ROYAL QUALITIES TO THE PRESIDENT, BUT ALSO MAGICAL ONES - JUDGE OF THE CRIMINAL CHAMBER OF THE SUPREME COURT PROF. WŁODZIMIERZ WRÓBEL IN OKO.PRESS: “It should be remembered that the President's decision to pardon former MPs concerned a different judgment – issued by the District Court and sentencing to a different penalty. The amended provisions of criminal procedure stipulate that the appellate court (second instance court) can now itself impose a penalty. And this is what happened in the case of the former MPs. The Regional Court amended the first instance judgment and itself imposed a new penalty and a coercive measure. Currently, this judgment is subject to execution, not the judgment of the District Court referred to in the President's pardon decision. However, it is impossible to pardon a penalty that has not yet been imposed, nor to remit it. The claim that a decision by the President of the RP from several years ago pardons a penalty that was imposed in a different judgment several years later is of a legal science fiction nature. This is no longer just attributing royal qualities to the President, but also magical ones.” https://oko.press/wrobel-prawnicze-science-fiction-kaminskiego-wasika -- NO AUTHORITY IN POLAND AFTER 1989 HAS BEEN AS CLOSE TO SLIDING INTO ACTUAL TYRANNY AS THE CURRENT ONE - RAFAŁ WOŚ IN INTERIA: “No one (or almost no one) is watching the new government. PiS had a powerful opposition – the European Union, liberal Western media, the Soros network. And in the country, a strong opposition, supportive media, and opinion-making elites. Paradoxically, this served PiS. It kept them in check. It guaranteed that even if they had that authoritarian gene, they would constantly fight it. And it would never take full control. The anti-PiS camp doesn't have that. Neither foreign powers nor liberal media, alongside Agnieszka Holland, will be watching them. And after taking over public media from PiS's hands, there will be even fewer of these safeguards. And this is the drama of our new rulers. This is their curse. It already makes them tyrants. Real ones – not imagined. And extremely dangerous.” -- IF PIS RULED "RECKLESSLY," HOW SHOULD THE ACTIONS OF THEIR SUCCESSORS BE CALLED? GIGARECKLESS? TURBO-RECKLESS? TURBO-GIGA-MEGA-RECKLESS? - WOŚ CONTINUES IN INTERIA: “First question: If PiS ruled 'recklessly,' how should the actions of their successors be called? Gigareckless? Turboreckless? Turbo-giga-megareckless? Second question. If Kaczyński's party disregarded all 'safeguards' or 'minority rights,' then where (only serious proposals, please!) are ministers Sienkiewicz and Bodnar located in relation to them? And the third question. The previous regime, for eight long years, was accused day in and day out (both domestically and abroad) of carrying within it an 'authoritarian gene.' It was said that PiS members would never give up power once gained, that they would not respect election results, that they would imprison opponents and take away the last media strongholds from the opposition. This is how it was, and those who don't remember should recall, read, and watch. In this situation, and against the backdrop of those accusations, how should those who rule currently be described?” https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-nadszedl-czas-tyranii-tym-razem-niestety-prawdziwej,nId,7248989 -- THE GOAL IS NOT ANARCHY. IT IS ONLY A TRANSITIONAL STAGE. THE GOAL IS ABSOLUTE POWER - JACEK KARNOWSKI: “The overthrow of the rule of law is a necessary condition for building any dictatorship. This can be done in several ways. Tusk has chosen the shortest path in our conditions: creating chaos, disorder, trampling on rules, overthrowing the fundamental principles of the rule of law. The effect is obvious: whoever has the strength decides everything, has full power. Tusk is deliberately destroying the rule of law. The goal is not anarchy, or rather, the appearance of anarchy. It is only a transitional stage. The goal is absolute power, one that no law can stop. Because the rule of law no longer exists. Naked force decides.” https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/677013-tusk-celowo-niszczy-panstwo-prawa-celem-wladza-absolutna -- BIRTHDAYS: Andrzej Mleczko, Maria Bnińska, Julia Krysztofiak-Szopa, Michał Lorenc Jr., SATURDAY: Elżbieta Radziszewska, Maciej Żakowski. SUNDAY: Magdalena Środa, Tomasz Garbowski, Janusz Cichoń.