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Why isn't the focus on encouraging these German men, stuck in a situation that isn't working "TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT"!!! No, we'll just listen to liberal think tank types wringing their hands as they discuss ramifications and half-assed 'remedies' for the problem. Again, personal responsibility has no place in these matters.

finding that the language, mathematical and logical thinking skills of eastern men was well below the national average.

Maybe the eastern men should just become homosexuals and metrosexuals. It doesn't sound like they need to be reproducing.

Why isn't the focus on encouraging these German men, stuck in a situation that isn't working "TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT"!!!

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So if they go to learn to read, who will plow the field? Milk the goats? feed the pigs? If you don't watch the farm every single day it will die. There are no days off, you can't skip feeding animimals.

Even so, when your farm is 10 acres how much can it be worth. You can only sell your home once. What can you get for an east german dirt farm? 1000 euros? how far will that take you when you have no skills, illiterate, and are only trained in farm labor? Do you work oppressive hours in the city as a laboror for someone else or do you work oppressive hours in the countryside on your own, however small, farm?

I believe they should "move the mountain" they should be taught updated framing and brought into the 21st century. Like the rest of europe, the farms will become consolodated and larger more productive farms will be created. (can everyone say factory farms?) None of this will happen if the only options only include 100 year old farming methods.

German tend to turn problems in sagas...without any end to the story. My guess is that the government will be stupid enough to offer a tax credit to single women in Eastern Germany...which the EU will prompty toss out as unfair. And these German guys here in the east...aren't going to shape up or find terrific jobs. So my prediction...you are going to see around 4,000 Philippino/Thai/Russian women coming into East Germany yearly to help fix this problem. And of course, half will be there for marrying purposes...and the other half...well you can guess their occupation. This might force east German men to work harder....to have more cash to spend on these women.