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we currently have the lowest unemployment rate in the last 20 years. We have problems to fill free jobs with workers. Thats our problem at the moment, that we need workers, but can´t find them anymore. They even plan a law that you must work 40h per week (with more money of course)
You have over 9 million unemployed. How is it hard to find workers?
check your numbers, our current unemploment is 4,58 Million. And those are mostly people who are unable to work.
Did you have to absorb a bancrupt part of your land from the communist power area? Did you have to transform that entire region from communism to capitalism within 10 years?
No?
Fine. Any other questions?
Boy that Unification Tax really helped ddn't it? My friend in Kissing (near Augsburg) absolutely hates it. It's like the US taxpayer trying to support a large 3rd World population like Mexico. Oh wait.....we already do.
ehem...east germany was in no way 3rd world. The average east german city was like the american standard in Texas or arizona.
By the way, the unification tax was not only for east germany. It was also to finance your gulf war,.
Beside that i´m happy about the reunion. I would pay evrything to support that process.
Why does it pay for itself evrywhere else? In germany its very profitable.
Honestly, no. I've been here for about a decade, and what I have noticed is that most Americans are grossly undereducated on issues like this, but refuse to admit the deficit. High Speed rail is cheaper, cleaner, and generally more comfortable, but they will never understand because they will never try to understand.
Here is what you are going to hear...
"It won't work here"
...this is the mantra by which America exists now. Everywhere else in the modern, industrialized world some form on national health care exists. THe people are healthier, live longer, etc... but when it comes to America?
"It won't work here"
Everywhere else in the modern industrialized world national educational systems exist with union involvement and government standards. In America?
"It won't work here"
Nothing works in America.
High Speed rail will not work either, not because it cannot, but because Americans will not permit it to.
I think it would work here. However, there's more to it than slapping some rails down and chugging away. America really embraces the automobile and the highway as its primary method of transportation. That would, in large part, have to be replaced. It would mean a lot of growing pains for a lot of people and companies.
That said, I think it's a good idea. But it wouldn't be a smooth transition. Short term loss for long term gain, and that's a hard sell.
And no matter what some may say, change is hard. For anybody.
It definitely could work, but Americans will not let it. Lots of things could work, but will not. Health care, educations, business regulation, etc... all of it fails when crossing into American territory. It is like some sort of weird Twilight Zone where the laws of normal society cease to exist.
First of all, if you want to understand why I think it wont work, you are best not trying to follow the non argument of people who dont know what they are talking about. But your point about raising taxes on fuel proves my point--that would amount to taxpayers subsidizing a mode of transportation that no on wants. The success or failure of high speed rail would largely depend upon cost and convenience. If your goal is to make high speed rail more attractive by making everything else more costly, you have not put forth a good product. You are just engaging in a tyrannical control of the public.
You sure do spend a lot of time on an American politics forum for someone who hates America so much. Maybe you should look in your own back garden and solve some of your own problems before you decided to tell America what it should do. Considering she is the most prosperous and free nation the world has known, she must have done something right.
But the US at least at this point, is not a socialist country like Germany. Your cradle-to-grave system is bankrupt forcing massive austerity measures to try and salvage your economies.
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Actually, I do have one that would require minimal funding and maximum output: Thorium.
America can change. I'll take littering as one example. Before the anti-littering campaign started there was trash everywhere. I remember. Now, with some exceptions certainly, America is virtually trash free. You can easily walk/drive from point A to B without seeing any.
That is indeed the question. And I do worry that we will put ourselves into a truly untenable position if we don't change fast enough.America will change, it will have to, but the question is will it change fast enough to survive. I will admit I did not think the school lunch bill Obama was proposing would pass, but it did, but consider the statistics. Diabetes is going to be a problem for 33% of the US population by 2050. Slow incremental change is going to kill your country, literally. People need to put down the Twinkies, start jogging, and do it now. not wait 40 years (the anti-trash efforts were started in the 70's, weren't they?), but too many people want to take the response that being fat and stupid (and dead) is preferable to the government taking away pizza from school lunch and substituting broccoli.
That is indeed the question. And I do worry that we will put ourselves into a truly untenable position if we don't change fast enough.
I fall neatly into this trap myself. I'm not overweight but have fat when I shouldn't. I'm a naturally thin person with a gut. I almost never walk anywhere unless I'm on vacation somewhere.Much has been made of overweight Americans, and I admit we can see that everyday of the week just by walking through a grocery parking lot and checking out the folks pushing their carts. Not a pretty sight. We need a lot more people walking, rather than driving, whenever possible. But America is not the only country facing this problem.
In the list below, the only country that surprises me is Israel. Having visited Israel many times, I haven't seen all that many overweight folks.
The Worlds Top 10 Fattest Countries | Expatify
The World Health Organization has recently released the results of health surveys taken between 2000 and 2008 on world obesity, and the news isnt pretty.
Since obesity rates can be an indicator of a nations nutritional trends, health and culture, we thought it might be useful information for the expat to know. Here are the 10 fattest countries of the last decade:
(1) American Samoa, 93.5% (of the population that is overweight)
(2) Kiribati, 81.5%
(3) U.S.A., 66.7%
(4) Germany, 66.5%
(5) Egypt, 66%
(6) Bosnia-Herzegovina, 62.9%
(7) New Zealand, 62.7%
(8) Israel, 61.9%
(9) Croatia, 61.4%
(10) United Kingdom, 61%
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