A generation lost to the market economy in Bulgaria

["D OC" <donaloc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

First is the response to the article below from someone in Bulgaria:
Dear All,
That article is DISGUSTINGLY MANIPULATIVE - as most of the figures quoted! -
and full of DAMNED LIES!
What makes me especially mad is that repeated assertion that there is
consensus re market economy and - N-A-T-O!!!!!
If the majority of people are asked about market economy, they will not know
what you are talking about. "Market economy" is an abstract term that speaks
nothing to them. But if you ask if they like their present life better that
the life before 1989, it is quite another thing: they will answer without
any hesitation - NO! The PAID author has pointed "more than 60 %" are
nostalgic for the "communist era". What does "more than 60% mean?" - 70? 80?
NOTE THE CONTRADICTION between the assertion for "consensus re the market
economy" - and the nostalgia for the past figure of "more than 60 %"!!!!!!!
THERE IS NO CONSENSUS RE NATO!
There is such consensus ONLY among the so-called political parties!
But how much percent of the PEOPLE are the DAMNED political parties?
80 % of the people are AGAINST NATO! They want referendum but it is not
allowed because, as one of the DAMNED politicians put it, the result will be
a BIG GREAT "NO"!!!!!!!
All the so-called Agencies for sociological public opinion researches are
PAID to publish MANIPULATIVE data and blatantly to manipulate people here
and abroad!
That article is SHAMELESSLY manipulative - besides some figures that seem
acceptable the HIGHLY PAID author distributes a DAMNED heap of lies! Look at
the consensus thing! Look at that excerpt:
"Among the changes the transition has brought, freedom
to travel is most appreciated, with 70 percent pleased
with the change, the poll said. It is followed by the
end of food shortages (65 percent), the right to do
business freely (66 percent), free elections (58
percent) and the restitution of farmlands (14
percent)."
Note the CONTRADICTION with the figures quoted above it!!! But let's look
more closely at it.
freedom to travel
I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry! Freedom of travel - BIG SHAKES!
Who travels? Could the hungry travel? Could the unemployed travel? Could the
ill travel? Could the beggars travel? Who travels? Only the government and
party people - with the taxpayers' money - our tortured money! Only the
economical MAFIA people - with the sweat money squeezed out of the slaves
working for them for next to nothing - and with the money stolen from all of
us through the neoliberal so-called privatization. Look at the figure and
compare it with the other figures quoted in the article - doesn't the
comparison results strike you as, mildly said, funny? Read again the
sentence "We can manage to feed ourselves, but we no longer have enough
money to go on holiday." That poor woman means going to holiday in the
boundaries of BULGARIA! Her family and she are bound to the town they live -
that town has turned into a concentration camp for them: THEY CANNOT LEAVE
IT because they are POOR and ALL their money are spend on FOOD, electricity,
water, and central heating bills!
end of food shortages -
Besides the years after the WWII at the end of the forties there was ONLY
ONE YEAR OF FOOD SHORTAGES, and it was 1991! Why? Because the future
businessmen from the Bulgarian Communist Party nomenclature - who SOLD
Bulgaria to the US in 1989 and 1990! - hid the food in anticipation of the
coming "price liberation". They bought huge quantities of food products at
the low prices of the "totalitarian regime" - and then sold them at the New
High "Liberated" prices! In this way they turned into very rich people
overnight, one can say! (I personally know of a man who bought tons of sugar
directly from the Sugar factory in the town of Gorna Orjahoviza, kept them
in warehouses, and afterwards sold that quantity at a great profit for
himself!)
the right to do business freely
Which is the date of that "research"? Because it might have been so in the
first 4-5 years of the Great Neoliberal Liberation - it means till about
1995. Now it is impossible to get such figures. The people in their majority
have already understood that the "free business" is ONLY one more of THEIR
MANTRAS! "Free" successful business can do only the politicians and those
near and close to them - THE POLITICAL-ECONOMICAL MAFIA OF US SERVANTS THAT
IS KILLING BULGARIA FOR YEARS ON A RUN TOGETHER WITH THEIR US
MASTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A great majority of ORDINARY people who tried to do
some "free business" has lost everything and lives the despicable life of
the other Bulgarians outside THE MAFIA.
free elections - 66 %
How is it possible that 66 % rejoice at the so-called "free elections" - and
the participants in those" free elections" to be regularly under 50 % for
the last several years? Last autumn the current Bulgarian President was
elected f.i. with only about 40 % participants in the Presidential elections
from all the people with right to take part in elections! Make the
conclusion for yourselves!
the restitution of farmlands - 14 %
That figure seems acceptable.

You see quite well THEIR system of manipulation: get out some truths to
catch the attention - and then pour out buckets of DIRTY MANIPULATIVE LIES!
One should be very suspicious to the official news from the US\EC
protectorate Bulgaria.
As it is already very well known, THEY - THE GLOBO MASTERS - LOVE LIES!
And demand THE SAME from THEIR servants.
Blagovesta Doncheva
Sofia
The Balkans
Subject:        A generation lost to the market economy in Bulgaria
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cv/Qbulgaria-society.Ru0u_CO1.html

A generation lost to the market economy in Bulgaria
by Vessela Sergueva

SOFIA, Oct 1 (AFP) - In Bulgaria a generation of
hopeful young professionals backed the country's 1989
conversion to a market economy.

But, now aged around 40 to 60, this "lost generation"
has seen its engineers become grocers and its doctors
become taxi drivers, as it plummets down the social
scale.

Ten years ago, 47-year-old Genoveva Popova was an
industrial draughtswoman-today she sells tiles in a
shop belonging to her brother, who was once an
engineer.

"We can manage to feed ourselves, but we no longer
have enough money to go on holiday. I wonder why I
studied at all," she said, disillusioned.

"As a general rule, 40 to 60-year-olds who backed the
transition to a market economy have lost their jobs
and their position in society," commented Jivko
Georgiev, of the Gallup polling institute.

"Their savings evaporated and more than a third of
them have been unemployed for years. Some of them
tried to play the capitalist game by starting small
businesses, but most of these failed," he added.

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