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A comment by nobel prize winner about that issue: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/killing-the-european-project/ That is true, sad but true... Still it is all about the ideology, it is a matter of enforcing the own oppinion. It is a matter how we choose to live in our country and the European Union. The last decades the living standard of Western people were cut down dramatically and public services were privatised. Public transportation, drinking water supply, postal service, waste disposal. These are things we depend on and these things can not be given into private hands. Private companies get hands on important, monopoly functions of our society. It is a matter of time to get ripped-off by these companies. So the costs were cut down for the state, but the saved money indeed... That is neoliberal politics, which does harm all of us. You might remember that the British government sold the British gold reserve for a ridiculous low price? Well... neoliberalism tries to erase the real-estate gold from peoples mind.... Here a very good talk given by economist Richard D Wolff, you should take your time and listen:

Now it becomes more and more obvious, following the latest news. It is not a fight Europe against Greece. It is a fight between two economic ideologies, even within the government of my home country. Here we have a regnant coalition between conservatives (CDU/CSU) and social-democrates (SPD). Neoliberalism is unmasked, deregulation at all costs and peoples selective impoverishment has brought us at the edge of the abyss. Enormous profits were privatised and the losses were socialised. The tax payer is covering all this mess. Countries and governments saved most of the doomed financial institutions. Now this debts covered by the public endanger whole countries and societies...

I like my job as well and I earn enough money in order to finance a worthily life Ah, a self confessed member of the elusive rich club who need to pay higher taxes to fund the have nots ????

I like my job as well and I earn enough money in order to finance a worthily life

9 months? When i was looking for a new employment it was 12 months. Your argument encourages in my oppinion. There is lots of stress upon working people, in comparison to that people with sufficient income upon investments are preferred. Keep in mind that employees have to work for that as well.

a speech in Bundestag. Unfortunally in German only.

That can be answered in a simple way... A human being with a full time job has to be in the position to afford a worthily life. A government has the task to introduce suitable conditions. That is not the case. My government for example does force people into dishonourable working conditions instead. That has to be changed, we have to take action and elect appropiate parties. I'm nor sure i follow that last paragraph Christoph, the forcing people into dishonourable working conditions? As i have been unemployed here in Germany previously i was given 9 months to find a job and be seen to actively seek employment in the chosen field in which i work, they also paid for me to learn basic German for 6 months. Please google "Aufstocker" and "Harz 4 Gesetze"

We already have a Santa Claus party in every country. Meanwhile we have to rely on those living in the real world.................. That has nothing to do with Santa Claus, that has to do with human rights. The same thing is if a CEO of a food enterprise deny the right for clean drinking water...

That can be answered in a simple way... A human being with a full time job has to be in the position to afford a worthily life. A government has the task to introduce suitable conditions. That is not the case. My government for example does force people into dishonourable working conditions instead. That has to be changed, we have to take action and elect appropiate parties.

That is something I had to learn as well.

Do not forget the quality of the product. In order to compete against products from low cost countries you have to have an high end product. In a functional market a product of higher quality commits a higher price. In our situation nowbody looks for better quality, everything goes via low price. The fatal message is that product quality (including education) is not worth it... The counter oppinion of that neo-liberal idea is, that employees with sufficient income are solvent consumers. A worker should be able to afford the own products (Henry Ford?). But in a globalized world employers do not care about these things. They try to produce cheaply (eg pay minimal wages, low quality raw materials) and sell them expensive somewhere else. eg Most cars produced in Germany are subsequently exported, no average employee in automobile industry can honestly afford and maintain a brand new upper class BMW or Mercedes. Here in Germany you can find business sectors with very low payment (full time - 40 hours per week), below the official poverty line. These people have to ask for public support granted by the social insurance. Come on you might argue, no person with common sence would accept such conditions. Well... that might apply for a functional, free market. But it is not free, the government applies stress in order to force you in such a contract. The government releases such laws in order to provide cheap working power for its industry. The same thing was tried in countries like Portugal, Spain, Italy or Greece. At least in latter country the people try to defend themselves against such brutal misuse. Now in Spain the left-winged Podemos tries to act and win the next election. We will see if the European people can re-take their continental union from that neo-liberal clique...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retirement_age

That is common in the conservative, neo-liberal theory of economic science regardless the nation it occurs. Drop the price for human work and make products cheaper. The potential profit of enterprises increases and that will boost economy. Human life and work is degraded to some kind of resource and expense factor. That is a kind of old-fashioned, inhuman and ugly theory. As far as I know Greeks can claim Rente with 65. In Germany it was raised to 67 and dropped again lateron. People doing hard jobs go earlier anyways...

That is in discussion already. BTW isn´t it true that the EU denied further financial support if annual income exceeding 500,000 Euro would have been taxed with a singular fee in order to get sufficient funding? In discussion it is argued that EU insisted to charge pensions and wages of common people.

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Good and correct comment!

In my view the "rich" do not contribute enough in a society. The common people can not really evade taxation, they have to cover most of the risk. During the seven years of debt crisis the subject to social insurance contribution had to suffer cuts in payments and pension, had to pay for tax increasements. The holders of diversified stocks, fonds and bonds earned huge profits over the time. The liquidity is transferred from the "poor" to the "rich". In last consequence the working power of common people was more and more not transfered into benefit provision (that was cut down instead), but into interests and dividends. The debt crisis helped the rich people to become richer, the crisis has been caused in last consequence by rich people and their inverstment banks. So it might be logic to let those people pay.

That is kind of right-wing, conservative oppinion. Give the rich people even more money and some crumbs will fall down the table for amusement of the poor. It is easy to transform the sentence you wrote in: Bank provision and rescue of ramshakle banks costs money, which is usually borrowed... by doing this the "money" is borrowed twice, that has to be paid sooner or later. And I rather prefer to pay for social insurance instead for parasitic investment banks. That leads us to the question about the nature of money. The FIAT-money we are used to handle is by its nature non-temporary credit. it is created money, created out of thin air. That should be clear to everybody, especially in this forum, were people are used to collect and think about money.

Well... all the Billions of Euro spent during this crisis went to the banks in France and Germany mostly. The debts were transfered from the banking sector to public sector. In last consequence the depts has to paid by common people, not in Germany and not in Greece only. It is the same thing all again... My dad is Greek citizen, he is retired (he lived and worked in Germany for decades). He told me about terrible things happening in Greece nowadays. Such things happend in Argentina as well and any other country threatened with bankruptcy. Salaries and pensions were cut down to drastic levels. The health insurance system collapsed. High rate of unemployment, the youth leaves the country. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! Everybody has to say Oxi at some point! Greek shipowners do not pay taxes in Greece? Hah! German shipowners do not pay taxes in Germany neither. Greeks become retired in the age of 56? Nonsens! These people are the same age compared to German people when retiring (app 61 in average)! I dislike the German government. First the living standard was decreased for the last 30 years in order put pressure onto the other European economies and to establish a huge low-payment sector whithin Germany. In a type of neo-liberal imperialism the establishment of such low-payment sectors was forced in countries like Spain and Portugal. I call that modern slavery! Politicians are servants of money nobility, they never serve the common people.

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search for missing WWII pilots and plains shot down over Germany (in German only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEo7RU2Fuhg Finally they claimed the discovery of ammunition in the wreckage of RMS Lusitania...

that video includes English sub titles (just klick onto the button "Untertitel")