“Car wheels are going missing in my neighbourhood. If everything is so good, why do people steal?
Poles describe their feelings about the situation in the country with the phrase “the dashing nineties are coming back”.
“If you believe the politicians, we live in a country with milk and honey, where there is no poverty and everyone has bread, butter and booze. The realities are that crime is on the rise and people feel threatened. Shopkeepers are counting their losses, cars or parts of them are being stolen. In a sense, the ’90s are coming back to us.”
“It got to the point where, when I went out for a walk, I was looking at the new cars and what rims they had. And I made a bet on who would lose them this week. I happened to guess. There was practically no week when some car wasn’t robbed,” writes the INN Poland columnist.
Even an ordinary trip to the grocery store may now be accompanied by a wary look on the face of the shop assistant who tries to identify a shoplifter beforehand in order to prevent higher losses. All this, according to the columnist, does not mean “the good life”. However, Polish politicians ignore the fact that the population is getting poorer and keep repeating that all is well in the country.
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