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To: elmatador who wrote (17900)	4/7/2002 5:10:25 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Your opinion implies everybody here has some influence. This is a questionable proposition. But even if its only every 1 per 10, this could be pretty close to democracy. Not bad, huh? In the whole discussion about that stale, barely-moving, half-dead bla bla Germany, one should not forget that since the reunification (this is more than 10 years, and signed and sealed to go on until 2019) 4% (FOUR *ing PERCENT) of everyone's income (of all 35M employed) is being transferred into new states - it's called Solidaritätszuschlag, aka solidarity supplement -. This is about 30 years of forced saving at 4% year after year after year. I cant think of many places on this earth that could handle this unscathed. I will not start on the question of "What else one could do with this pile of money?" The moneys are going the right direction. What's questionable, to me at least, is that two thirds of these moneys end in pure consumption. Add 20% unemployment rate there, 2.5M employables out of cca 18 M population left already the new states ... and you got yourself a problem. see xave.de dj