A really great day, mainly because two kind and very supportive persons:
a) Mrs Viktória Francz from the mayor's office in Balatonfűzfő. Clearly from the heart, she promised all possible help to get us ten members (of which hopefully being the municipality). I have great hopes that her actions are commensurate with her good intentions.
b) The mayor of Vezprém, Mr János Debreczenyi, has in the past already given so much of his support to our Foundation. For this we are indeed very grateful. Now comes a most difficult "task" to find 60 members as Veszprém is by far the biggest town in the Veszprém County with 58.000 inhabitants. If there is anyone I regard highly because of abilities and determination to get results, it is the mayor of Veszprém! Thank you Mr mayor for our most pleasant and constructive meeting today!
The mayors of Sóly and Litér also demonstrated a keen interest to help us finding members.
But after 12.00 noon, most municipalities were closed. Nearly everyone from the government has a long, very long weekend. I have always been wondering how Hungary could lift itself up out of the prevailing dreadful economic circumstances if the state and local authorities give such example. After the second worldwar the countries in Western Europe worked even on Saturdays for many decades. After a degree of prosperity was reached, the Saturdays were given as a free day. But in Hungary, for most government offices the weekend start on Friday at noon. This is a luxury, the government has not deserved. It may also be partially a reason why so many people work as government-employees. Too many people doing too little.
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Fully agree with you that work, and work done with heart and entouhiasm, is what should lead us out of the current disastrous situation.
ReplyDeleteI find it important to strongly emphasize something in what you say:
the responsabilty for what you have seen with the weekends starting early in the government, the responsability mainly goes to the current government
- and not to all Hungarians.
And not all working places can do the luxury that you have experienced with the government.
Most of us, Hungarians, are willing to work many, many extra hours, in case the structure in which we work, makes it rentable; if the fruits of the long extra hours do appear in results and prosperity.
In the curent system, often is this aspiration blocked.
But this is the mistake of the structure, not the people. The mistake of those who have built this structure, and those, who maintain this structure - not the people.
I know a nurse who works in a bakery in the evenings, to earn more money for her children.
Probably most mayors would like to work many extra hours in their offices, if they would see any result of their additional efforts. But for this you need a responsible government.
... It is Saturday afternoon when I write this post and from the car we saw the notary public working in the municiplaity of Kaposszerdahely... There are people who arrive to keep their entouhiasm even in the most difficult circumstances.
ReplyDelete... and the village does develop indeed.