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Heh, I just want to blow everything up and go back to the Deutsche Mark.  There's a "Fight Club" instinct there where all the corporate headquater's buildings get blown up in the end.  I will be Ikea-boy no more.

Of course that is purely a selfish wish as it would help me personally at the expense iof the population as a whole.  It's also a wish shared by most of my German friends for equally selfish reasons.  Then again, they also long for the good ole' days of the DDR.

So maybe all of our selfish opinions are really not credible after all.

Nevertheless, it is how a lot of us feel and that can translate easily into politics, for better or for worse.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 08:10:04 AM EST
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That would be an incredibly short-sighted policy.

Germany benefits enormously from being one of the big players in a European Union that's expanding its authority and sphere of influence.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 09:30:57 AM EST
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Pretty much what I am saying in my comment above.  It is very short-sighted policy but it is also very populist.

I mean, I try very hard to see the big picture but at the same time living on 974 USD a month which has just now broken over the 700 euro mark this week.

That's going to be the conundrum, imho - personal economics over the general welfare.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Fri Feb 12th, 2010 at 10:29:30 AM EST
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