Off topic but this,along with the 10% unemployment in France,yet the libs think that we need to be listening to them on any issue.
Even more glaring when comparing population numbers along with the effects of 9/11.
My German pal who thinks Americans are savages and only Eurotwits understand how to live reports that her buddy in Berlin, age 50, is starting his third year on unemployment, traveling all over the world on trips his benefit payments cover, living the high life, and in no danger of ever being required to go back to work.
Now comes the rising unemployment level in Germany and the slumping economy. I guess we'll be seeing thousands of unemployed Germans vacationing at the Laguna Beach Ritz Hotel. Until their bubble bursts.
No point discussing with any German the possibility that their country's economic ruin is fueled by the "Versaille-like" (an Ann Coulter word) pensions and benefits all German workers receive from the government. And btw, her friend worked as a waiter, he's healthy, strong, good-looking, personable and gay. He could go back to work anywhere at any time. But he claims not to be able to find work and the German authorities buy it. Hah!