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To: neolib who wrote (234956)	5/30/2005 12:10:58 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572326

"Which is, unfortunately, a two-edged sword." Oh, I agree. It is just that being unemployed in Germany is a whole lot different than being unemployed in the US. So the impact of 5.4% is higher than 10%+ in Germany. So you can't really compare the two. Germany would kill for a 5.4% rate, but we have a lot of people hurting at that level. Saying "well, it is higher in Germany" adds exactly nothing to the discussion. Actually, Walmart opened their first German store about 15 years ago. They aren't widespread, I've been tooling around northern Germany for about a week and haven't seen one. But you can find t-shirts are things for extremely low prices, we just bought a couple for 1 euro(VAT included). They have to come from somewhere...

To: neolib who wrote (234956)	5/30/2005 12:47:02 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572326

Germans do indeed have Wallmarts already. They mainly export Audis, Beamers and Benzes. Taro

To: neolib who wrote (234956)	5/30/2005 3:16:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572326

So being unemployed doesn't hurt as much. Which is, unfortunately, a two-edged sword. I was shocked that Germany was (2004) still the leading export economy. On a per worker basis, it is even more outstanding. The other interesting thing is what a large fraction of China's total exports come to the US, and the bulk of it is direct trade imbalance to boot. Germans must not have WalMarts yet! The joke is on these rightie slaves who do the dirty work for their masters. For a country with twice our unemployment rate, Germany looks a hell of a lot better than the US.......no large slums, few homeless people, people with a full set of teeth, etc........all the things these rightie slaves never bother to examine. Oh wait, most of them have never left their neighborhood......how could they possibly know what's going on in the big, bad world.