You - ajax18 and Droopy - seem to misunderstand my words.
I didn't say a word about
Soviet Union or
desire to control or any
~ism.
But if You dug it out...
In 1990-90 there were a
regime changing in Hungary.
The return to a capitalist system and all its accompanying reforms exposed the precarious state of Hungary's state-run economy, which resulted in socioeconomic difficulties for the country during that years. Unemployment jumped from nonexistence to 14 percent. Inflation increased at an annual rate of 23–35 percent (excluding indexing of wages and pensions). Older, retired people, more than one-fifth of the population, suffered the most, and the living standards of more than one-third of the populace declined to below subsistence level. In the meantime, income disparities increased, which irritated the people. Corruption became more widespread and visible than before. Together with the previously omnipotent police force, street security also collapsed in 1990. The crime rate, especially in Budapest, increased threefold in five years.
A big step forward for the society.As a regular officer / engineer / teacher, my salary was 1/8 of
U.S. uniformed services pay grade.
The same before and after the
regime changing.
A big step forward for me.My wife and me are pensioned since 2002.
Ultimately as lieutenant colonel, vice leader of the military college's radar department (O-5 category...) in my life I've taught 800-1000 radar operators, maintainers, engineers.
My wife, math teacher, has taught the same amount of pupils from primary to college level.
Today, our pension is 8000 + 4000 $. (/year...)
Too much to die of hunger, under to live.
I don't care the style of the regime. Communist, fascist, or best-of-the-world-republican-american.
People whose all treasury have in their brain, live on the verge. (There are exceptions; if one knows trade, business, banking - areas don't create real goods - and has inherited or stolen some money ...)
..................
What I began to say in my first comment
- that cars are to travel from one place to another. Big families may have 4-5-6 cars...
To drive a car doesn't mean ability to push the gas pedal, and hold the track. It means more, for example to keep the rules of traffic. 9 yo child able to do it...
- that sunglasses are to protect our eyes. Making they of 60 grams of 24 carat gold and decorating with 51 full-cut 4 carat River diamonds apparently increases the protection.
- that watches are to show the time.
For example this:
201-carat Chopard ($ 25 million)
These beautiful watches were among the stones of the most expensive. This clock is surrounded by three red (15 carat), blue (12 carat) and silver (11 carat) stone-colored, heart-shaped diamond. White diamonds arranged to form flowers. Have as their central yellow diamond. Have 874 diamonds and weighs 201 carats.
Here
would be its picture:
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If You look at it (please do) ... it doesn't show the time. It shows
"wonder, you common simple mortal, I have this because I am rich enough to buy this.
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco
- To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
