The major problem for Betonov is the fact that since he lives in Slovenia he either needs to move abroad or remain unemployed. While his experience in tool and model making is sure to get him some sort of a job in our industrial sector, the whole Slovenian economy is in shambles. There is no other way of saying it. The whole economy is just working on inertia right now. A couple more set backs like the failure of the Seaway group and we'll be the next Greece, considering that in almost two years of tenure, our government has been unable to do squat s*** (I apologise for the language, yet there is no other way of saying it) to try and restart the economy. Sure, it threw a lot of money to companies with correct political affiliations, that is company of the current government coalition, while every other profit making company had go to bust due to the inability to get any working capital. The same thing happened to me. Damn shame really, considering that we make the kind of product that should restart certain economic sectors. Just goes to show that Slovenia is still a backwater banana republic country. If you're an ex-communist, calling yourself a neoliberal, you get all the luxury a man or woman could want, while the man on the street is without a job and most importantly, is humiliated by his own state. Not that I support the constant right wing attacks against ideological enemies, yet they at least proposed laws which should in theory (much more cannot be asked from a government in Slovenia anyhow) work. That was two years ago, when there was still some money going around. Now, we're hung up high and dry. Good thing I still draw government scholarship, yet how long that will last is another question.
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