The Ukrainian "political elite," feeding at the go...

2008-06-20T16:53:00.000+03:00

The Ukrainian "political elite," feeding at the government trough, continue their cluster pie fight - to the detriment of Ukraine and Ukrainians.

Here's a bit of history I found in a very recent article in Bloomberg:
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Polish Lessons

European history also offers painful lessons regarding veto powers. Starting in the 16th century, the so-called liberum veto gave each member of the Polish nobility the right to dissolve parliament and nullify legislation. The result was political gridlock. Poland ceased to exist after being partitioned by its neighbors Russia, Prussia and Austria in the late 18th century.

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Yushchenko says that he wants an independent Ukraine. How does he expect to maintain an independent Ukraine -

1) when his only goal is to torpedo Tymoshenko, and government consists of a big pissing contest between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko, with the Party of Regions hoping to come in and take over the spoils?

2) when the "political elite" has made beggars out of Ukraine, with people who are willing to sell their votes, and their futures and the futures of their kids, for a few measly dollars, as we just saw in the Kyiv mayoral elections?

Here's a start -

GET RID OF PARLIAMENTARY IMMUNITY

Here's another start -

GET RID OF PARTY LISTS

Here's another start -

GET RID OF CORRUPTION

Which Lutsenko is attempting to do. It looks like Baloha took over 60 charter flights - but noone knows who paid for those, and Baloha's government salary, as chief of the president's secretariat, is nominally only 17,000 hryvnia (about $5,000).

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The Ukrainian "political elite," feeding at the go...