Posted on 08/02/2009 12:43:02 AM PDT by SolidWood
While the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) takes a summer break before the autumn election campaign, chancellor candidate for the Social Democrats (SPD), Frank-Walter Steinmeier, has unveiled a plan to create full employment in the next 11 years.
The ambitious idea centres around turning Germany into what Steinmeier called the "Silicon Valley of environmentally-sensitive industrial production," according to Der Spiegel magazine at the weekend.
“We show how with clever policies Germany can create a total of four million jobs in the next decade,” he said.
Steinmeier’s 67-page "Plan for Germany" sets out how half of these jobs which will be generated by promoting greener industries, as well as energy and raw material saving.
A further million new jobs could be created in the health service, he said, in particular in the care professions – for the chronically sick and the old.
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Something funny for you.
In order to get full employment... the government has to either: manipulate the currency... over-regulate the economy... and/or declare war.
If this was the answer... how come Nazi Germany and USSR is no longer around?
Next year some Socialist Ecomomist will declare 80% employemnt as full employement.
Presto chango!
Solid economic strategies not needed - we have clever policies!
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