The meltdown of the Hausner plan continues - bureaucrats strike back

Rzeczpospolita has learned that under the Hausner plan the expenses of public administration over the next few years will be cut by only zł.96.1 million instead of the planned zł.1.3 billion. The only expenses that were successfully cut are those related to the use of cars and laptop computers, which amount to savings of zł.27.2 million and zł.49.2 million respectively. Moreover, there are new expenses planned which may consume all the savings done so far. For instance, the Social Insurance Administration (ZUS) plans to build its new seat and an accounting center, which will cost zł.113 million. “I am sure that no savings can be made in the administration. The government is just too weak for that,” said Janusz Jankowiak, a BRE Bank economist. (Rzeczpospolita, July 3-4, p. B1) E.B.