Posted on 11/10/2006 4:53:31 PM PST by shrinkermd
Faced with poor job prospects, high taxes and an intrusive bureaucracy, more and more Germans are choosing to emigrate. Most of those who leave, though, are highly qualified -- which could mean devastating economic consequences.
They are fed up, truly fed up. Fed up with the constant bickering over the costs of wage benefits, social reforms, elimination of subsidies, store closing hours and all the other symbols of a country stuck in bureaucratic and legislative gridlock.
They are tired of living in country where landing a job is like playing the lottery, a country where not even half of citizens live from gainful employment and a country in which even academics in their mid-40s are already considered problem cases when it comes to job placement. In other words, they are fed up with living in a country where all opportunities already seem to be taken: opportunities to succeed in one's career, to own property and to achieve prosperity...
(Excerpt) Read more at spiegel.de ...
...as the Muslims move in.
Where the US is headed.
Same thing happen in Sweden. More Swedes here in the U.S. than Sweden. My husband is one of Swedes.
Maybe we should encourage some of them to immigrate to the United States. Legally that is.
What year? My ancestors came over around 1850.
My thought exactly.
LOL!
They're welcome here as long as they leave that pesky national socialism in the old country.
"... even academics in their mid-40s are already considered problem cases when it comes to job placement."
Well, I guess things over there aren't all bad.
URP!... excuse me...
My German and Italian ancestors both arrived around 1890.
sad but true
My maternal and paternal ancestors came over here from Germany in 1642 and 1682, respectively.
Racism against Mexicans.
Oh no. Am I allowed to say Mexican anymore?
Likewise -- German and Swedes. Some of the first people to settle Denver.
...and as long as they leave the attitude that "America has a lack of culture" over there.
(BTW: I lived in Deutschland for 3 wonderful years: It was my 2nd favorite nation in the world.)
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
No, they are referred to as North Americans, now. Mexico doesn't exist anymore. :)
Thank you, NEA.
My husband came over in 1982. Just became an American Citizen March of 06 and Voted here for the first time this election... Straight Repub of course. I came to the States 1960. But not from Sweden. Korea. Been married 20 years... about time he took the oath.. Don't you think?
Yet Germany would rather focus on Rummy for not licking the sandals of Mohammed.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1557842,00.html
"My ancestors came over around 1850.
Mine, also. The story I heard is that it was the potato famine which affected lots of europe, not just Ireland.
First I read about the Dutch, now the Germans. If you folks are coming here, don't bring your crappy ideas that ruined your countries.
Wow!
This is how the seeds of war are planted.
And this is not just happening in Germany. Add France and Russia to this list.
The introduction of the potato to Europe caused a population explosion...the potato fungus had the opposite effect. The potato is from Peru and there are over 2,000 types there.
If the Europeans had picked more than one type of potato, the famine wouldn't have been so severe. Other types of potatos in Peru weren't sensative to the fungus.
NOTE: For the last couple of hundred years there have probably been more people of Swedish descent (in whole or part) in the US than in Sweden. It got worse in the mid 1800s of course.
Well thank you. I can't trace my ancestory... they are all dead.. (Korean war). But my husband can and I can say with all honesty... I truly have the most wonderful in-laws.
Doesn’t matter, they would be coming to the soon-to-be, US of Americamexicostan, anyway.
You mean like, an Aryan race and the yoooss are the problem of all wars, we don't want that kind of c@%$
"NOTE: For the last couple of hundred years there have probably been more people of Swedish descent (in whole or part) in the US than in Sweden. It got worse in the mid 1800s of course."
My dad's ancestor was a Mennonite who got the heck out of heavily Catholic southern Germany because of religious persecution and ended up in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
I only found this stuff out last year and was floored by it all. It's really cool knowing that both sides of my family were here almost at the beginning of the colonization period:)
Oh, they most certainly WILL be bringing their socialist poison mentality with them. I was stationed in Germany for almost 7 years, and socialistic thought is so ingrained in the German consciousness that it is literally second nature. I wouldn't expect that to change all that much if a large number came here, even if it was because that very mentality caused their exodus in the first place.
Sweden was overrun with Muslims. That's what killed Sweden. Other nordic countries are paying very close attention now.
"Das ist immer alles Aulung und ist rauch mit and potzen
Volkswagen und niemann stint und "Swell Pizza!!""
It will happen, if not Germany most likely France. Already the Muslim population in France is 20% and already there are calls by them for Sharia law. Obviously no threat now, but this liberal path the world has chosen if continued will eventually 100% give these psychopaths the same direct route to power that brought Hitler and Nazism to absolute control. All it takes is the spread of fear. Fear is control. People afraid to speak out or rebel for fear that someone may be listening. When it is too late, which is only a short time away, who is going to help if the US retreats from Iraq? Remember, Nazism practically overtook the entire European continent with only a fraction of what the radical Islamic followers have now. This sh8t is no joke. There are billions of Muslims in this world right now, and if even a fraction of them are radical, that is a 10`s of millions if not 100`s of millions of them! No army on earth will be able to stand up to that. What this world has to do is join together, otherwise it is checkmate, game over man. These pricks are a true cancer on humanity and this is the message that has to be spread at all costs. Bush, Blair have tried it, but you get these damn liberal pricks who continually swat it down.
Read this thread I posted today, it`s about an email that`s been going around for some time...The email is loooong winded, but if you take the time to read it, everything that is going on today is explained in detail like you can`t believe, and I believe every last word of it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1736476/posts
Imagine the irony. If a 4th Reich emerges, it will because of all the muslims, who actually hate the jews.
Oh for sure... Sweden is certainly have trouble with the Muslim population. More rapes and theft now more than ever. I worry about my in-laws, but they say they are safe.. wish they would move here permanently, but they won't.
RAMADANFEST!!
Talk about fiddling while Rome burns...
My maternal grandparents came from Germany, my paternal great-grandparents from Sweden. I have a sister-in-law who came from Cambodia (as a baby) after her father was murdered for being an educator, and another sister-in-law whose family came here from Ukraine due to being persecuted for being Christians. They all came to America and became U.S. citizens for better opportunites and survival, and I'm so grateful they did!
Potato thread ping!
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