Posted on 04/08/2007 5:54:29 PM PDT by blam
...what’s a mother to do???
Merkel’s fault.
East Germany wanted the West to come and rebuild their ruined cities for them after Communism ran them into the ground. It’s the same “come do it for us” syndrome that New Orleans has manifested after Katrina. Socialism cripples people so they can no longer fend for themselves but sit and wait for someone else to take care of them. Democrats are hoping to do that to the entire USA.
It’ll take time to repair the damage done by the communists. Sadly, people suffer.
Eventually, Germany will even out again; but it will take time: Horrible damage was done.
"It's like the American Midwest after the gold rush. These are becoming ghost cities."
Ummm...then maybe there is no reason for those cities to exist in the first place? Just because the Communists threw up a bunch of cheap concrete apartment blocks in these places doesn't mean they had any economic justification for doing so.
Sounds like the problem is solving itself - people are leaving the economic dead zones and going where the work is. Kind of like Michigan in the United States. ;)
Coming soon to West Germany if the trend continues toward socialism.
High taxes ?
Socialism ?
Communists ?
Apparently, West Germany already suffers greatly from the influx of East Germans. As I understand it, the unemployment has soared because of the load of job seekers from the East.
Do they know the cause of the bad fertility rate?
:-(
I figured that the Germans would filter back in to fill the niches once they reappear.
The trouble with East Germany is that it is dotted with 19th Century towns that have lost their reason to exist. The same thing happened to much of “small town middle America” in the last 70 years.
To make matters worse, much of the East is still suffering from the horrible ecological catastrophe known as communism. Terrible pollution with vicious toxic chemicals with take generations to erode through natural means.
However, this can be turned to the national advantage, by having the government buy up these ghost towns and their surroundings and converting them to nature conservatories. That is, to rebuild large forests instead of the tiny “volds” seen in the west.
Not as forest preserves, but as recreational forests that would not only help restore much of Germany’s depleted wildlife, but for national pride and enjoyment.
Then, after nature had cleaned up most of what the communists had contaminated, then they could start “sensible growth” back into those forests.
All of Europe is in a crisis of population decline. Only their ‘guest workers’ are growing in numbers through continued immigration and large birth rates. Here in the US, our native TFR is near zero. Slight positive rate to the national average is due to large families and birth rates of our immigrants.
No desire to marry, have families and shoulder responsibilities have very real consequences. You might say that we’re consuming our seed corn without regard to future crops. Abortion has killed 44 million fellow citizens in this country alone.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Why is the government responsible for the economic health of—anything? The government CANNOT run an economy—case in point—the Soviet Union.
They could build up the infrastructure—the highways & railroads. but anything else, it’s up to the people to get education and produce.
We're doing fine here in Columbus, thank you very much.
Not with their birthrate. They are finished as the Muzzies take over.
“As I understand it, the unemployment has soared because of the load of job seekers from the East.”
Then they need to turn loose the greatest system of wealth creation yet devised: capitalism. Slash taxes, shed the nanny state and provide other business incentives.
The German people are highly capable and industrious..... well at least they used to be. Some social remedies are in order as well.
Yeah, and sell the carbon credits from those preserves to AlGore to fob off on his hollywood friends.
Post #4 well said.
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