...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 ?
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.
We're doing fine here in Columbus, thank you very much.
She said that it is VERY bleak there. She blames the German government for blocking new jobs with high taxes, high minimum wages, mandatory requirements on employers that effectively have strangled the fledgling market.
That would be a sight, wouldn't it? Tumbleweeds blowing in little East German towns, across the wooden sidewalks of old run down saloons, their doors flapping in the wind. Broken buggies and covered wagons everywhere... Sausage and strudel gone bad... Stale beer... Mmmm....
This is odd - Germany has a brain drain of skilled workers.
sounds like Detroit..
In the mid ‘80s the CIA said the DDR’s economy was as strong as West Germany’s.