Posted on 02/02/2005 6:26:34 AM PST by KwasiOwusu
Germany's jobless total rose above five million in January for the first time since the 1930s, a labor office source has said, highlighting the main thrGermany's jobless total rose above five million in January for the first time since the 1930s, a labor office source has said, highlighting the main threat to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's 2006 re-election bid. ............................
According to official historical figures obtained by Reuters the unadjusted figure of 5.037 million would put the country's unemployment at the highest level since 1933, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party came to power.
"We are getting towards the dimensions seen at the beginning of Hitler's regime," said Dieter Wermuth, an economist at United Financial of Japan.
"Germany is increasingly getting a lower class, which it has not had for many decades, a growing class of people who do not expect to work ever. And that is politically very dangerous."
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You're right. Since it can NEVER be their own fault for pursuing idiotic policies, the US must be to blame. I almost forgot, Old Europe is not responsible for its own actions and is totally at the mercy of outside forces over which it has no control except its vaunted moral suasion.
I can't stand him either. But the sad thing is that he may lose the election primarily because he's actually trying to do things to control spending, like cutting the unemployment freeloaders.
Hehehe, the Steuersong, "Steuern spar'n ist ganz einfach. Ich zum Beispiel hab nen Chaffeur: Da kann ich mir das Steuern spar'n"
Loosely: "Saving taxes is very easy. I, for example, have a chauffeur; therefore I can save taxes."
I love that song.
Bush-bashing, plus he got lucky that Dresden flooded just before the election, allowing him to look like a hero sending all that money to help the people.
That's a problem newcomers have in Germany. Germans don't get into nice, neat lines, but have their own system for getting up to the counter. It seems pushy, but if you know what you're doing then everybody kind of knows their place in the queue.
The problems is they do the same as the "ugly American" image -- don't change their behavior to fit the country they're visiting.
Both France and Germany are staunch supporters of the EU scheme hoping the EU would deflect their failing economies.
Little wonder why Chirac wants a global taxation scheme!
UK should not join the EU! Dumbest thing possible!
I'd forgotten about those floods. Didn't the left wing press blame them on global warming?
BTW, France's unemployment rate is @ 14+%. At least 40% of France's employed work for the *government* which owns about 40% of industry and business. France suffers a stale and stagnant economy. I would say Chirac's anti-Bush and anti-American rants are face-saving deflections from France's rapidly growing social problems and rapidly declining economy.
Chirac's sense of promoting "egalitarianism" is to ban religious symbolism! (With bleeps & sarcasim)
It seems Chirac recently attended ACLU "civil rights" workshops.
Of course. That, and the hot summer we had, plus the very cold winter. Oh, and the big wind storms a couple years ago too. I think they'll blame their dog's getting worms on global warming.
It would be interesting to see how the MSM would react if an anti-Bush European government were to fall.
Maybe they have not figured out that socialism tends to bring economies down, not lift them up.
Yet LW moonbats proclaim we need the advice of allies who run their own affairs so poorly.
German jobless hits Nazi-era highs...soars to new five million record...France is a runner-up, along with the other Europeein' socialist paradises.
So keep importing more mooslims and giving them jobs and social benefits.
Why not?!
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