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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (17917)	4/7/2002 4:32:53 PM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re my critique "the social concensus in Germany can turn out to be just one more reason to keep things as they are" was meant as a statement of support for change - I appreciated your comment btw -. But the conditions changed drastically since say middle seventies. One of the symptoms for the staleness is the rigidity of the work market. It just does not make sense that it costs a pile to hire and to fire somebody (employers' side) and it just does not make sense that productive, best educated work force is sitting on sidelines, unemployed (workers' side). Having unemployment at 10.4% (statewide, feb 02) and in former DDR (in so-called new states) at more than 20% (!!) is definitely a symptom of something. Same as high temperature always means the person must be ill (and very low temperature possibly that the person is dead...) dj