Germany fears revolution if Europe scraps welfare model

Reuters ^ | May 28, 2013 | by Ingrid Melander

[Oldeconomybuyer]

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned on Tuesday that failure to win the battle against youth unemployment could tear Europe apart, and dropping the continent's welfare model in favor of tougher U.S. standards would spark a revolution.

If U.S. welfare standards were introduced in Europe, "we would have revolution, not tomorrow, but on the very same day," Schaeuble told a conference in Paris.

In recent weeks Germany, wary of a backlash as many in crisis-hit European countries blame it for austerity, has taken steps to tackle unemployment in the bloc, striking bilateral deals with Spain and Portugal.

"We have to rescue an entire generation of young people who are scared. We have the best-educated generation and we are putting them on hold. This is not acceptable," Italian Labour Minister Enrico Giovannini said.

[Trod Upon]

They're going to have a revolution if they don't scrap their immigration model.

[Cronos]

The WESTERN European model worked when the US was protecting France etc. from the Soviets and the French opted out of NATO -- to spend that money saved on freebies for the population

Just as the US over the past 20 years has taken a turn left, former left countries like China, India etc. are turning right....

[RonF]

“We have to rescue an entire generation of young people who are scared.”

You have to rescue an entire generation of young people who think that the State owes them a living.

[Myrddin]

It grates on my nerves to see socialism espoused in the scripture you cited. The LDS church also has a concept of the "united order" that feeds on the same socialist concepts. Socialism always fails when it runs out of resources to steal from those who work vs those who consume. Is "heaven" a place of inexhaustible resources that requires no work? If so, it might work.