SPD says: don’t buy German
Sometimes I despair of German polititians. Do you have to ask why Germany has the weakest economy in the EU, with more unemployed than at any time since the Weimar Republic in the 1930’s, when leading members of the government tell the public at large to boycott German companies?
April 20th, 2005 at 13:04:19
i’m so sick of these idiots. i can’t tell you. =(
April 22nd, 2005 at 09:04:13
I think what they really meant to say is: as a patriotic German (when did the social democrats start relying on patriotism so much?) you ought to buy products from non-foreign and non-job-exporting German companies. So effectively Germans should only buy real German products.
April 22nd, 2005 at 21:04:14
@Kai – yes, I’m sure that’s what they wanted to say, but boycotting the “un-patriotic” companies may – in the worst case – put them out of business, and that’s not what the SPD wants either. I hope.
I’ve seen a number of articles about how exporting some jobs enables companies to keep other jobs on in Germany.
What I would prefer to see, is some real innovation in things like tax law – how about a flat rate tax at say 20% on everything, like some eastern European countries have been doing? Simplify everything, make a lot of tax advisors and tax officials redundant and allow the rest of us to focus on generating wealth for Germany, rather than spending a lot of time working out how to save taxes?