Posted on 12/31/2005 1:35:10 AM PST by pepsionice
150,000 Germans left in 2004...and I'll already bet that they exceeded that for 2005. Of 80 million Germans...this is an interesting number. And amongst this group...which the article doesn't refer to....are the German university grad's who finished up their PhD...which the bulk of them leave each year and go to the US. Germany recently tried to publicize this and "invite" them to strongly reconsider their actions in leaving. Most laughed as they looked at the German tax situation and unlimited opportuities in the US.
If your brightest and most brilliant and gifted students are leaving...if your highly trained and qualified technicians are leaving...if your business opportunists are leaving...is there some atmosphere that you as a country might want to fix or correct? For Germany, the answer is no. Let us keep our front door open on this issue and welcome our new "friends" in. If we all remember the depth and contribution of Dr. Werner Von Braun...we might be getting a handful of brilliant minds...and perhaps gain some momentium in the business and development sector.
From that point on, PJB assumed his place as the Doom and Gloomer he is
Do ya think the German Government will ever learn that socialism doesn't work?
Not before our own Democrats here in the USA do
Wouldn't be easier to send the Turk "guest workers" back home?
Germans will tend to be very good immigrants. Our legal immigration policies have been lopsided in favor of the 3rd world for decades. Ever since Ted Kennedy's immigration reform bill of 1965. http://www.cis.org/articles/1995/back395.html
It's time to favor Western and Eastern Europeans to redress this imbalance and subsequent 40 years of mass immigration (legal and illegal) from the 3rd world and Latin America
Gees....and leave a standard of leaving that 10 steps higher than Turkey? And leave all those blonde German babes? And leave some of the best pork roasts on the face of the earth? And leave the best cars (Audi, Mercedes, BMW)?
There are hardly any "guest workers" allowed into the country today unless you count the IT workers from India who come in. The Turks....simply did their job, and stayed. And most would never go back to Turkey now. The funny thing is that they actually integrated for the most part...and most Turks really aren't much dedicated to the Muslim faith.
I don't know if this is true anymore, but it used to be that Germans were our second largest segment of the population based on ethnicity. While vastly outnumbered by immigrants of the British Isles, Germans came in the millions to America.
Texas has a very large population of ethnic Germans. Czechs as well. Just down the road from me in New Braunfels is one heck of an Oktoberfest.
With the German tendency to become well educated, hard workers they have without a doubt been a huge reason for the success of this country.
A close friend fo myself and my family married a guy for Germany 5 years ago. He left for economic reasons. He is now a naturalized citizen with 2 American daughters. There is only one thing he does really miss about Germany,the beer houses.
I think principally-German-descent Americans is the largest among white Americans today, with 25% of all Americans classified as "German Americans". British Americans are probably at merely 18% which is quite surprising, although using the Australian and New Zealand definition of classifying British descent, where they include Irish descent under "British" (in NZ) or "Anglo-Celtic" (in Australia), the totral British/Irish descent Americans are about 32%.
Compare this with New Zealand, where 80% of all New Zealanders are British/Irish descents (not too many are Irish here - NZ Europeans are principally British and in particular, English) and in fact, more than 97% of European New Zealanders are British/Irish in ethnicity. I have this experience myself: it is not uncommon to see names like "Klemm" or "Hirschfeld" in white Americans friends that I know, but they are very rare here and most European New Zealand surnames are like "Bailey", "Wood", "Thompson", "Hawkins". (In fact, British notice this - they found that there are far more white Americans with non-Brtiish/Irish sounding surnames than they have ever expected)
You are correct - they are now losing some of their best and brightest.
The run away Socialism in Germany (and in Europe) must stop.
Just too too French aren't they.
I know a new German family, too. They're here. The whole world is coming, by hook or by crook.
They speak English right off the bat, are well educated and don't drain the system.
I like the exchange. They get a bunch of third world loozers who sit around on the dole in dreary flats in a country with dreary weather, we get enterprising young folks who enjoy life, vibrant weather and freedom. It's a win-win-win-win situation, they get what they want, we get what we want, the loozers get what they want and the emigrants get what they want.
When the spawn of the loozers disrupt the quiet life of Shermany, hey that's icing on the cake, they can blame the Amerikaners! Sure they may be old, lonely, cold and poor, but they have their attitudes to keep them warm.
Raise Taxes - It has worked so well in the past. Germans, French, Democrats must do it again. /s
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