At least the Germans are good at balancing the budget, which some FReepers think is the key to economic bliss.
Germany promises to create more and more “benefits” for the poor and retired. At the same time, the world’s economy is changing in ways that will serve to continually reduce Germany’s export income. They are probably already passed the point where they could make a correction away from socialism. The Green party and the other far left parties are in ascendance. Merkel’s “conservative” party kept the leftward motion going to get large ruling majorities. The problem is you can’t give away enough stuff to ever satisfy socialists. So, now real socialists will take over. By-by Germany.
Any industrial economy is going to run into problms when its government wages war on electricity.
The only way to fix things is to import more uneducated Muslims. Germany can spend it’s way to prosperity by increasing unemployment benefits to ‘migrants” and “refugees!”
Germany gets its just rewards.
Who wants their crappy cars anyway. They used to be fairly good and fun to drive, now they’re just over engineered crap needing PHD levels of expertise to diagnose. Germany jumped the shark.
Feeling some schadenfreude reading this.