Julínek, Kalousek, Czech goods, and state bankruptcies

The successor to Health Minister Tomáš Julínek, Senator Daniela Filipiová, said she „would continue with reforms“ prepared by her predecessor. And Minister Julínek is described by his colleagues as a good minister who just „poorly communicated“ his reforms and fees to the public.

A few notes on this.

Firstly, nobody will continue with anything. No government in the world makes any reforms (that is, reforms that can hurt someone) a year and a half before elections. And by no means will reforms be made by this government, which has lost its influence and power given the fact that the „opposition“ (regional governments) controls a major part of the sector.

Julínek's reforms represented a relatively interesting and coherent system, but the trouble is that the minister did not have everything perfectly ready before the elections. If he did, he could have launched the reforms in January 2007 when the government still abounded with self-confidence. But he put the reforms together only last year (This is the problem of this government in general. Why did ODS not come up with something reasonable before the elections instead of the „thick wallets“ and the „blue oportunity“? Why was Petr Nečas trained as shadow defense minister for eight years? The ODS is now paying for being lazy, sleeping, not counting and not working with experts during those eight years in…