Posted on 10/09/2014 9:23:27 AM PDT by Olog-hai
This year the Taxpayers Alliance (BdS) has focused on unprofitable businesses run by local governments in its annual Black Book of government wastebut still found space to name and shame some of the biggest money sinks in Germany. [ ]
The BdS is campaigning for local administrations to limit themselves to infrastructure and basic services for their citizens in local ventures, rather than some of the luxury offerings including cinemas and spas from certain communes.
Thats businesses like a saltwater fish farm in the Saarland, 600 kilometers from the sea, and a loss-making publicly-owned vineyard are in the organizations sights.
But the BdS has also targeted big-budget projects like the Berlin State Opera and the Hamburg planetarium.
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Fish farms and fish ponds are a big thing in Southern Germany.
Way back in the 1960’s (4 Marks to the $) I remember having lunch at a rustic restaurant overlooking a small lake filled with trout.
Their most important plate was served with local forest mushrooms and “Forellen Blau” or “Forellen Hausfrau Art”. Both smothered in locally churned butter and washed down with the local white wine. As an uncouth American I also ordered the local “Helles Bier”.
Man, I could’ve stayed there much longer.
Were they subsidized like these modern ones are?
I remember when I was stationed in West Germany there was a rural stretch of road with numerous ponds on both sides. Connecting the ponds were frog tunnels under the road plus a frog warning sign.
Plenty of toads on the roads where I live, but no tunnels. Amphibians lay lots of eggs (20,000+ in one season) and replenish their numbers rather quickly.
Those myriads of eggs are laid per individual frog, too.
Yes, by me and others who enjoyed great meals in quiet surroundings.
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