When I have been writing and speaking for a long time about how the operation of commercial-law companies using public assets leads to the creation of sinecures and limits the transparency of public finances, I am called a “Commie” and a “ZOMO officer”. All this is intended to divert attention from the essence of the problem.
As an aside, I would add that I would like modern police officers to be taught their profession as conscientiously as militiamen once were. Politicians have done a great deal to limit the ability to conduct investigations into economic crime while simultaneously making the police dependent on local governments.
I am not making this accusation without reason. I am a staunch opponent of local governments purchasing or financing any equipment for the police. The police are a state institution, and only the state should provide them with appropriate funding. Their actions must not be constrained by a sense of “gratitude” toward local donors. The police should be able to prosecute without hindrance everyone who violates the legal order.
I myself was a police officer dealing with economic crime, and I know how complicated this field is. All kinds of interference along the lines of “Well, you know, maybe…” lead precisely to the situation we are dealing with today.
There are no innocents in scandals connected with companies. None of the political sides is blameless. The sphere of public finances was slowly and methodically distorted, as I have written many times before.
What does the term “indebted hospital” actually mean? How can a primary healthcare facility become indebted? What arguments were used to bring about the creation of the National Health Fund?
The NFZ resembles a thousand-headed dragon, consuming enormous resources and lacking adequate oversight. To make it easier for the dragon to digest public money, it is given “Alugastrin” in the form of commercial-law companies. With such treatment, almost any public money can be swallowed.
If someone earns more in one hour than a pensioner receives in an entire year, let them try to prove to me that the “Commie” is wrong to criticize the operation of commercial-law companies in public healthcare or local governments.
Is what has come to light still too insignificant for the Polish Parliament? Apparently so. All sides of the political scene are tossing this “hot potato” back and forth instead of jointly admitting that for years abuses, economic destruction and the division of society for financial gain were allowed.
How can honesty be expected from lawmakers when they themselves repeatedly become the protagonists of successive financial scandals, regardless of their political colors?
I do not like referring to religious stories, but one of them would fit this situation: a conclave. Parliament should be surrounded, deputies provided only with bread and water, and deprived of comforts and privileges until the law is brought into line with the standards of a democratic state.
Perhaps I have gone too far, but have our elected representatives not already crossed every boundary in their disregard for society?
Knock, knock, honorable members of Parliament! Fascist militias are already in the streets of the Polish state. What are you preparing for the Polish nation in order to avoid responsibility for actions directed against Poles?
From the Sejm rostrum, you inform potential opponents about gaps in our defenses. You say how many rifles and—figuratively speaking—spears we have. Are you really doing all this out of pure patriotism?
Even now, there is no genuine will to repair public finances. The issue of companies has become another “club” with which politicians beat one another. The main goal is to maintain social divisions, not to fix the situation.
What must happen to Poland before Poles understand that they are being exploited? What must happen before politicians come to their senses?
Remember that civil wars never truly end, and the wounds they inflict never fully heal.