"Investors don't want Pensioner Party in new government"

One is wondering about who is running a county and who is setting the agenda. So we had democratic elections. Some like the result some don´t that´s part of a democracy. But who is governing the county? Are "foreign investors and foreign business associations in Serbia - primarily from western countries" democratically legitimized to compose the new government?

Not to mention their real aims in this game without rules: The freedom for all foreign investment to do whatever it wants without any domestic precautions like social security, minimum wages, proper taxation an FDI i.e. So what they take is first world money into third world regulation...

One should consider the consequences.

Definitely agree with you on that one, this is the kind of "democratic" reforms that take place and ruin the country. It's interesting that they're concerned because I believe it wouldn't kill these corporate giants to provide a little guarantee to a worried population that they plan on exploiting. Serbia will never have a domestic economy that produces growth for itself, it will always be borrowing money to pay back debts and will have it's entire population working for a select few investors.

I really wonder how people don't see that there is no difference between being a slave and being consistently in debt, it's the same thing, only in todays case it involves a debt of money whereas before it was a debt of your life. To add to this, since in this world we cannot do anything without money and our life depends on it, there really isn't any difference because the money has become our lifeline and the nation is enslaved with the impossible task of paying it back.

It's never about helping a country out, it's always about making it comfortable for corporate interests. I know there are many 3rd world countries that are suffering from corporations that invest in their countries for the sole fact that they don't have the same laws and restrictions and environmental policies that the developed western countries do. It's a sad reality that this is looked at as a positive thing. This system is not sustainable, and when it breaks, everyone will suffer.

Peter K. stated:


It's interesting that they're concerned because I believe it wouldn't kill these corporate giants to provide a little guarantee to a worried population that they plan on exploiting. Serbia will never have a domestic economy that produces growth for itself, it will always be borrowing money to pay back debts and will have it's entire population working for a select few investors.

Peter my boy, have you no shame in asking for a handout for the proud nation of Serbia. To make maters worse, you lower yourself further by begging those countries that bombed you not so long ago. If you read postings on B92 regularly, you will conclude that most Serbs have nothing but contempt for the U.S. and EU, however you expect them to lend a helping hand to a country that has committed, rather recently, the most brutal war crimes on unarmed civilians, most of whom were women, children and the elderly. Unfortunately for Serbia, people and nations have long memories. Before asking for the generosity of the West, Serbia must prove herself contrite rather than continue to be belligerent.

"It's never about helping a country out, it's always about making it comfortable for corporate interests. I know there are many 3rd world countries that are suffering from corporations that invest in their countries for the sole fact that they don't have the same laws and restrictions and environmental policies that the developed western countries do."
(Peter K, 5 April 2014 02:23)

Companies who invest don't do it for charity, for sure. There are many reasons to choose a location, less laws and restrictions are much less important than other factors like cheaper workforce or, epecially important, being closet to the target market. But most important is security on investments and property, guaranteed by a stable political system without extremists and radically changing direction of economical and political policies when a new government comes to power.

Peter K. stated:


It's interesting that they're concerned because I believe it wouldn't kill these corporate giants to provide a little guarantee to a worried population that they plan on exploiting. Serbia will never have a domestic economy that produces growth for itself, it will always be borrowing money to pay back debts and will have it's entire population working for a select few investors.

Peter my boy, have you no shame in asking for a handout for the proud nation of Serbia. To make maters worse, you lower yourself further by begging those countries that bombed you not so long ago. If you read postings on B92 regularly, you will conclude that most Serbs have nothing but contempt for the U.S. and EU, however you expect them to lend a helping hand to a country that has committed, rather recently, the most brutal war crimes on unarmed civilians, most of whom were women, children and the elderly. Unfortunately for Serbia, people and nations have long memories. Before asking for the generosity of the West, Serbia must prove herself contrite rather than continue to be belligerent.

One is wondering about who is running a county and who is setting the agenda. So we had democratic elections. Some like the result some don´t that´s part of a democracy. But who is governing the county? Are "foreign investors and foreign business associations in Serbia - primarily from western countries" democratically legitimized to compose the new government?

Not to mention their real aims in this game without rules: The freedom for all foreign investment to do whatever it wants without any domestic precautions like social security, minimum wages, proper taxation an FDI i.e. So what they take is first world money into third world regulation...

One should consider the consequences.

"It's never about helping a country out, it's always about making it comfortable for corporate interests. I know there are many 3rd world countries that are suffering from corporations that invest in their countries for the sole fact that they don't have the same laws and restrictions and environmental policies that the developed western countries do."
(Peter K, 5 April 2014 02:23)

Companies who invest don't do it for charity, for sure. There are many reasons to choose a location, less laws and restrictions are much less important than other factors like cheaper workforce or, epecially important, being closet to the target market. But most important is security on investments and property, guaranteed by a stable political system without extremists and radically changing direction of economical and political policies when a new government comes to power.

Definitely agree with you on that one, this is the kind of "democratic" reforms that take place and ruin the country. It's interesting that they're concerned because I believe it wouldn't kill these corporate giants to provide a little guarantee to a worried population that they plan on exploiting. Serbia will never have a domestic economy that produces growth for itself, it will always be borrowing money to pay back debts and will have it's entire population working for a select few investors.

I really wonder how people don't see that there is no difference between being a slave and being consistently in debt, it's the same thing, only in todays case it involves a debt of money whereas before it was a debt of your life. To add to this, since in this world we cannot do anything without money and our life depends on it, there really isn't any difference because the money has become our lifeline and the nation is enslaved with the impossible task of paying it back.

It's never about helping a country out, it's always about making it comfortable for corporate interests. I know there are many 3rd world countries that are suffering from corporations that invest in their countries for the sole fact that they don't have the same laws and restrictions and environmental policies that the developed western countries do. It's a sad reality that this is looked at as a positive thing. This system is not sustainable, and when it breaks, everyone will suffer.