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Germans leaving country to escape unemployment
Reuters ^ | 30 Dec 05 | Erik Kirschbaum

Posted on 12/31/2005 1:35:10 AM PST by pepsionice

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To: Mo1

Had a similar discussion with a lib recently. I was stunned to hear her say socialism has just never been done right.. lol. I half expected it to come out; but, not so clearly stated. Usually it's a little couched in my experience.


41 posted on 12/31/2005 8:25:33 AM PST by Havoc (President George and King George.. coincidence?)
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To: LonghornFreeper; definitelynotaliberal

Ehm, definitelynotaliberal spoke of Muslims, I think - not of Germans. :)


42 posted on 12/31/2005 8:26:36 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Comstock1

I´m 100% German.


43 posted on 12/31/2005 8:27:17 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: pepsionice

44 posted on 12/31/2005 8:27:37 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Wouldn't be easier to send the Turk "guest workers" back home?

About as easy as sending our Hispanic "guest workers" back home.

45 posted on 12/31/2005 8:34:38 AM PST by Bernard Marx (Don't make the mistake of interpreting my Civility as Servility)
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To: pepsionice

Rummy was right, old Europe is going, period. New Europe, consisting, primarily of the former Soviet bloc, will move forward, adopt capitalism and Sh*t-can all this PC crap - you don't like it? then get the hell out! We may be able to learn something from these new democracies, but first we have to deport the anti American, lefty democrats and announce to all and sundry, 'if you don't like it here, get the fu*k out! Don't try to change us, 'cos we like it the way it is!


46 posted on 12/31/2005 9:06:10 AM PST by Eighth Square
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To: CzarNicky

Of course they can. It is a matter of making it uncomfortable for them. They need the backbone to do it. So does France for that matter.

However, in California we have a similar problem with illegal aliens who plop themselves on the welfare roles, and camp. Day working and of course paying no taxes. Sorry I equate the same.
They are here illegally, and "DO NOT BELONG HERE" check out this website: these are some of their intentions for us.
www.aztlan.com


47 posted on 12/31/2005 9:12:26 AM PST by television is just wrong (Our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: Havoc

That's always their argument. Communism/Socialism didn't succeed because competition from capitalism killed it.


48 posted on 12/31/2005 9:18:41 AM PST by MarkeyD (Cowards cut and run. Marines finish the job. I really, really loathe liberals.)
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To: pepsionice

The WHOLE WORLD is losing their best and brightest to us.

Whether it's German students, Mexican workers, or even French cooks, only the cream of the crop has the self motivation to get here.


49 posted on 12/31/2005 9:27:09 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who have dementia.)
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To: hershey
I know a new German family, too. They're here. The whole world is coming, by hook or by crook.

But why would they want to come here? I thought all the good paying jobs were being outsourced to Asia? < /sarcasm>

50 posted on 12/31/2005 9:40:28 AM PST by uglybiker (Iraqis have purple on their fingers. Liberals have brown on their thumbs.)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Whether it's German students, Mexican workers, or even French cooks, only the cream of the crop has the self motivation to get here legally.

I had to fix your sentence. The USA's biggest strength until the current generation was our immigration policies which were geared to improve the USA. The current generation has just thrown open the gates and let in poverty, disease, crime and balkinization.

51 posted on 12/31/2005 9:45:53 AM PST by freedumb2003 (American troops cannot be defeated. American Politicians can.)
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To: TXBSAFH
A close friend fo myself and my family married a guy for Germany 5 years ago. He left for economic reasons

Is he a socialist?

52 posted on 12/31/2005 9:46:07 AM PST by Stentor
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To: Stentor

He is an engineer. He can make more money and pay less in taxes with a better job in the US.


53 posted on 12/31/2005 9:49:43 AM PST by TXBSAFH ("I would rather be a free man in my grave then living as a puppet or a slave." - Jimmy Cliff)
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To: pepsionice

I met a couple of German civilians in Iraq who were happy to be working.


54 posted on 12/31/2005 9:50:47 AM PST by elhombrelibre (MSM: de facto allies of America's enemies.)
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To: pepsionice

My strategic management professor last semester was an immigrant from Germany. He was in his early 30s, spoke English well, and strongly believed in free market economics. He was an excellent professor. His family owns a small business back in Germany, and the stories he told us about their labor laws.. sheesh! :P


55 posted on 12/31/2005 9:56:15 AM PST by somniferum
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To: pepsionice
If we loosened up our immigration laws we could have a new wave of european immigration. Wont happen of course. Europeans along with africans, asians, south americans etc etc will have to be kept out in favor of mexicans. You wont hear any of the pro-illegals complain about this.
56 posted on 12/31/2005 10:00:04 AM PST by mthom
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To: TXBSAFH

I met a girl from Germany a few years ago. She was blown away when she walked into a store and looked at greeting cards. In Germany she would have been lucky to find 4 or 5 cards for sale. Instead she found hundreds of cards on sale.

The Germans also have laws forcing businesses to operate on limited hours. This means that you can't run to the store after work to pick up a quart of milk. Everyone has to go shopping within a few hours on Saturdays.


57 posted on 12/31/2005 10:00:39 AM PST by redheadtoo
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To: pepsionice
The last numbers I read concerning France (where I lived for WAY too long), something like 50% of all French business school graduates emigrate - about 25% to the UK and 25% to North America. Of course, the French government, completely immune to any notions of cause and effect, is doing nothing about it.

But it's not just limited to Germany and France, roughly half of the students in my MBA class in Monaco were Scandinavians fleeing the socialist restrictions on entrepreneurship there. Most of them wanted desperately to come to America.

Europe's loss is our gain as we import hard-working, industrious entrepreneurs while they, for the most part, import third-worlders who seek nothing more than life on the dole...

58 posted on 12/31/2005 10:00:45 AM PST by Philistone (Turning lead into gold...)
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To: pepsionice

Socialism - it always promises riches but ends in bankruptcy.


59 posted on 12/31/2005 10:02:05 AM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: kb2614

Not until economic circumstances reach catastrophic levels will the German people put down the addictive narcotic of socialism.


60 posted on 12/31/2005 10:03:06 AM PST by Zack Nguyen
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