[Alberta's Child]

Very good article. Ironically, it is nothing other than globalization that is going to spell the doom of this kind of state-sponsored socialism.

In my opinion, the official "beginning of the end" of modern Germany effectively began in the late 1990s when BMW and Mercedes opened new manufacturing facilities here in the U.S. The U.S. is generally perceived as a high-cost country for manufacturing, so you can imagine how dismal the business climate must be in Germany for these two companies to open major plants here.

[bruinbirdman]

"The U.S. is generally perceived as a high-cost country for manufacturing,"

Who was it who said, "Everything is relative."?

yitbos

[Tauzero]

"Ironically, it is nothing other than globalization that is going to spell the doom of this kind of state-sponsored socialism."

Alternatively, it may merely usher in a global state.