DS is "engine of Serbia's development"

Tadic does not know what he is talking about. How is there development and new technologies, when everything is owned by foreigners and when we ourselves do not get the new technologies? It is noted that in the DS development plan - which has been used in many other countries in the developing world - the noticed thing is that there is NO Technology transfer. That there is pretty serious. We are not developing new technology and owning that technology. We are only assembling things using someone else's technology. We do not know or have that technology ourselves, hence the noticed fact that in these development programs, there is no technology transfer. Furthermore, Tadic's development program is based solely on cheap labor. In the developing economies, the state has to have a strong role, as that is the best way to reduce unemployment. Latin America tried to go to the private sector and that failed miserably in the 1980s and 1990s... now almost every country in latin america is under a state led economic growth model, and they are prospering. Of course, what is the consequence of Tadic's policy... the policy is primitive Bulgaria... we most certainly do not want to be a hole like Bulgaria is, but if we do what the DS wants, then we will be exactly another Balkan hole in the EU, or should I say a colony that solely depends on the economic condition of the West. It's frustrating, when they say that they're the only option and there is no alternative.

This engine ran out of gas on March 12, 2003. It never recovered after that dark day; it is rusted, dusted and busted and it is forcing Serbia to slip into an international rotten borough. We need to send this engine to the scrap heap of history, Serbia needs a new power

Quite frankly I do not agree that Tadic is the closest thing we have. I mean, if you want Serbia to be a sweatshop, then yeah fine, we will just be importing goods and reexporting them. Is that a way to have a successful economy? I don't think so, and I do not want to be dependent on the West that much. We see how eastern european countries are falling out due to their dependence.

You people ask for an alternative... I'll give you one. Have the state tell people, get off up and do this, and we will then to that with this. But no, there is no such state leadership for development. The fact is that all developing countries that achieved much did it through state led economic growth. The state led sector was the engine. In Chile it was the nationalized copper industry, in other places it was something else. The point is that the state has to have a significant role, but no, Tadic feels that it is best to give everything to the private sector, because the IMF told his government so. Well, most IMF programs are failures, and so we will most likely be a failure.

Oh good Lord! This is the saddest joke yet. This relic deserves to join the Radical party in forgotten history. Also quite unprofessional for the head of state to promote his own party in such a way. But whats to be expected from a man like Tadic, a complete failure.

Question for all posters:
who is the engine of Serbia's development?

I don't expect any answer. Until the opposition wises up Tadic and his party is the closest thing we have, sad though that might be.

Bgannon. The engine that will run Serbia's development can not be a political movement. It must be the next generation and this is an area that the government is ignoring. They build a new parlimant building while schools and universities are crumbling. Also we would never know what the opposition is offering from reading b92 and most other government controlled/ government partnered media, The fact that the opposition does not offer an alternative that you are comfortable with or believe in does not make the DS "the closest thing" to anything.

The DS has failed, time and time again and whether or not the alternative is much better is a moot point. What is important is that no political movement imagines itself entitled to power; the DS sense of entitlement is an affront to democracy

I hear that the DS main party board will be going to Ankara for consultations next week; they want to find out from the turks how to rule Serbia for 500 years

Marko its not that the opposition don't offer me something I don't feel comfortable with - its that they don't offer anything.
It would help if the opposition would explain their policies in greater detail - and, no I don't buy that its the media's responsibility to cover this, its the responsibility of the opposition to get the message accross.

For example economic policy you do not unveil with some lowly nobody and then wonder why nobody knows about the economic programme. You roll out the big guns to get the message accross.

I'd like to know which media you are advocating as a source of opposition policies. Does such media exist? And is that evidence of conspiracy, or evidence of failure to get the message across? After all, considering that they all take money from Miskovic, it can't be that hard can it?

Lazar you are talking about neo-liberalism which is the realm of G17, former close partners of DSS.

DS' political philosophy is centerist closer to Democrats in the US, not the freer market Republicans.

Yaroslav note that DS ceased leading the government in 2004. You might also note (and I'm sure you know this) that the government in power reaps the benefits (or not) of previous years. IE In the year a government begins work it cannot seriously claim credit for economic growth that year, nor even the following year for that matter.

Oh please Tadic, the fastest period growth since 2002 was from late 2003 to mid-2007 when your party wasn't in government.

Question for all posters:
who is the engine of Serbia's development?

I don't expect any answer. Until the opposition wises up Tadic and his party is the closest thing we have, sad though that might be.

This engine ran out of gas on March 12, 2003. It never recovered after that dark day; it is rusted, dusted and busted and it is forcing Serbia to slip into an international rotten borough. We need to send this engine to the scrap heap of history, Serbia needs a new power

Oh good Lord! This is the saddest joke yet. This relic deserves to join the Radical party in forgotten history. Also quite unprofessional for the head of state to promote his own party in such a way. But whats to be expected from a man like Tadic, a complete failure.

Tadic does not know what he is talking about. How is there development and new technologies, when everything is owned by foreigners and when we ourselves do not get the new technologies? It is noted that in the DS development plan - which has been used in many other countries in the developing world - the noticed thing is that there is NO Technology transfer. That there is pretty serious. We are not developing new technology and owning that technology. We are only assembling things using someone else's technology. We do not know or have that technology ourselves, hence the noticed fact that in these development programs, there is no technology transfer. Furthermore, Tadic's development program is based solely on cheap labor. In the developing economies, the state has to have a strong role, as that is the best way to reduce unemployment. Latin America tried to go to the private sector and that failed miserably in the 1980s and 1990s... now almost every country in latin america is under a state led economic growth model, and they are prospering. Of course, what is the consequence of Tadic's policy... the policy is primitive Bulgaria... we most certainly do not want to be a hole like Bulgaria is, but if we do what the DS wants, then we will be exactly another Balkan hole in the EU, or should I say a colony that solely depends on the economic condition of the West. It's frustrating, when they say that they're the only option and there is no alternative.

Oh please Tadic, the fastest period growth since 2002 was from late 2003 to mid-2007 when your party wasn't in government.

Quite frankly I do not agree that Tadic is the closest thing we have. I mean, if you want Serbia to be a sweatshop, then yeah fine, we will just be importing goods and reexporting them. Is that a way to have a successful economy? I don't think so, and I do not want to be dependent on the West that much. We see how eastern european countries are falling out due to their dependence.

You people ask for an alternative... I'll give you one. Have the state tell people, get off up and do this, and we will then to that with this. But no, there is no such state leadership for development. The fact is that all developing countries that achieved much did it through state led economic growth. The state led sector was the engine. In Chile it was the nationalized copper industry, in other places it was something else. The point is that the state has to have a significant role, but no, Tadic feels that it is best to give everything to the private sector, because the IMF told his government so. Well, most IMF programs are failures, and so we will most likely be a failure.

Bgannon. The engine that will run Serbia's development can not be a political movement. It must be the next generation and this is an area that the government is ignoring. They build a new parlimant building while schools and universities are crumbling. Also we would never know what the opposition is offering from reading b92 and most other government controlled/ government partnered media, The fact that the opposition does not offer an alternative that you are comfortable with or believe in does not make the DS "the closest thing" to anything.

The DS has failed, time and time again and whether or not the alternative is much better is a moot point. What is important is that no political movement imagines itself entitled to power; the DS sense of entitlement is an affront to democracy

I hear that the DS main party board will be going to Ankara for consultations next week; they want to find out from the turks how to rule Serbia for 500 years

Marko its not that the opposition don't offer me something I don't feel comfortable with - its that they don't offer anything.
It would help if the opposition would explain their policies in greater detail - and, no I don't buy that its the media's responsibility to cover this, its the responsibility of the opposition to get the message accross.

For example economic policy you do not unveil with some lowly nobody and then wonder why nobody knows about the economic programme. You roll out the big guns to get the message accross.

I'd like to know which media you are advocating as a source of opposition policies. Does such media exist? And is that evidence of conspiracy, or evidence of failure to get the message across? After all, considering that they all take money from Miskovic, it can't be that hard can it?

Lazar you are talking about neo-liberalism which is the realm of G17, former close partners of DSS.

DS' political philosophy is centerist closer to Democrats in the US, not the freer market Republicans.

Yaroslav note that DS ceased leading the government in 2004. You might also note (and I'm sure you know this) that the government in power reaps the benefits (or not) of previous years. IE In the year a government begins work it cannot seriously claim credit for economic growth that year, nor even the following year for that matter.