The following article is for my fellow Germans. I talk about the treatment of Germany in the American media. Here, one is full of admiration for the Germans who can rejoice economic growth of 3.5% and an unemployment rate lowest in 18 years but here is the recession that does not really finish and an unemployment rate that has paralyzed the country. I appeal to Germany to celebrate their situation (which is quite the opposite of what they traditionally do.)
Deutschland gehört zu den Ländern nicht Definitiv, über die amerikanische News report much. The lack of war, revolutions, riots, scandals make Germany more technically inattraktiv news. Occasionally we heard from Germany but in the last 2 years, as has been reported on health reform and was the German health care system of several enlightened man presented as an example. I can do with my life experience in four countries confirm. Of course everything could be better and many of you remember the days when it was better and cheaper. But a look outside a harsh light on the reality to which citizens in other countries. Anyone who believes in a privatized System where everyone can choose for themselves whether and how he wants to insure, health insurance would be cheaper (especially young men) ignores the fact that in a privatized system profit is the key word - and nothing at all is more expensive. Without any regulatory disease expenditures increased to astronomical heights.
These days, however, we hear from Germany from a very different reason:
The booming economy, low unemployment rate (lowest in 18 ! Years) attracts attention and admiration on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, as far as I can tell you, and above all the question: how do they do that anyway? The export surplus is one of the reasons. In the past 10 years, exports have doubled German goods. According to the analysis in my Wirschaftsprogramm it is because it Detuschland in many small engineering companies are to design the goods that people want to buy in other countries. Companies retain their good engineers, even in bad times even if only for one day a week to them in better times yet to have on board. The tendency of the Germans, not to get into debt to our ears, protects against massive scale Bankruptcies, people in the arms of the social network drive, where they would pollute the Witschaftsbilanz more.
plays an important role but is accessible to all the training, the high quality of the German vocational training system and the associated quality of German products, which comes back to benefit exports.
Meanwhile, here in California we are trying to digest a Arbeitslosenqote of 12.7% and struggling with the consequences of the ongoing budget cuts.
Our school system, once a model is reduced down from next September to below the vital minimum. What is left of funding for the school will be a principal, teachers, electricity and water. Meanwhile there is a packet of money, with which the school is anything but has to finance, what is important, this includes: co-presidents, secretary travelers, librarians, nurses, janitors, psychologists, social workers and all the programs on basic subjects go (ie sports, art, music, computers, etc). The gifted program and the support for English learners are also fallen victim to the cuts. The U.S., which anyway are already ranked 25th in the PISA study is to gain a further drop in the quality of education is not really afford, but it is simply not a priority in this country. Here, the politicians are fighting vehemently for the right to carry a weapon, the future of their children, compared to "un-American." Who can even send their children to Priatschulen anyway and must then grapple with these issues any further.
So you have a good chance that you probably - another German tradition true - same again seeks to obscure by it with all imaginable Will look for reasons why you have to suffer so. But people, let me give you a tip: Rejoice easy!
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