"I know nothing! Noooothing!!!"
Ping List material.
These are commentaries from people in a country that has unemployment rate more than 10%...
The German media is obsessively focused on portraying America as failing. Truly, Pravda in the haydays of the USSR did not do as good a job of deceiving its audience as the German media does.
Europe has moved so far left they see everything through Red Colored Glasses.
"I know nothing! Noooothing!!!"
It makes sense really. Let's pretend you're the German government/media:
Our unemployment rate is an embarrassingly dangerous 12%, our econonomy is free falling into the abyss, our society is being overrun by Muslim immigrants, German businesses are leaving the country due to ridiculously restrictive taxes, regulations, and labor laws, and new businesses are reluctant to start up here for the same reason. Let's see, things are falling apart here in our socialist "utopia" and we need a scapegoat to divert the attention of the masses from the actual cause. Let's continue Herr Schröder's anti-American campaign and no one will notice that our welfare state is fast becoming a huge disaster.
"The American people would therefore not only be in charge of their own retirement accounts, they would also personally live with the risk."
Breathe deep the gathering gloom...
They sound like the New York Times.
The German economy is in shambles with a high unemployment rate and their forign policy doesn't look too smart after the Iraq elelections--but they still love to whine about Bush.
For more Euro-trash anti-American garbage pay a little visit to:
http://www.expatica.com/
Click on "join a discussion" then on "international"
In early 1981 I spent a night at a NATO TROPO communications site at a place called Lammersdorf, near Aachen. It just happened that that evening the newly elected President Reagan had just announced that he was calling for large tax cuts. I couldn't understand the German comments from my hosts concerning the news, but I could understand the words "cowboy president" said with a particularly tone that clearly expressed disdain.
That site is probably no longer a NATO com site, since the Berlin Wall came down, thanks in large part to our "cowboy president" but the disdain for American conservative values goes on. Reading the Speigel article you see that there is still disdain for our "cowboy" presidents. How sad . . .
Consider that this is the usual loose stool served up to the German public. No wonder they have anti-American attitudes.
Given that such is their diet, it is only rational and efficient to ignore the opinions of the witless coprophages.