Germany... Why is it the EU powerhouse?

[TOM4CWB]

How Germany Became Europe's Richest Country
PBS

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[wilagro]

Das ist goodt...in Canada we have expertise as well but we prefer to import Chinese made junk and export our cheap natural resources to the rest of the world to refine/develop and create wealth from. If we have something good then it is for sale to whoever wants it and our Canadian government usually okays the foreign take-over as a matter of course.

We have lost iron ore smelting, nickel extraction and refining, coal mining, and nearly all of our major petro-chemical industries to foreigners over the past eighty years.

Successive Federal and Provincial governments have sold us out bit by bit and will continue to do so as long as we keep voting for the same stupid politicos. We need some men/women with the interests of Canada as their paramount responsibility.

[cottonpicken]

When germany recaps its banks it will be in as bad of
shape as the us.

[fjlip]

Yes that sums the reasons for their success and leadership. Exports make an economy, imports kill jobs.
Wow, Trumpf owes nobody! That is unheard of in N.A., debt is rampant.
I wonder what German house hold debt is like?
In the video you can see how CLEAN everything is in the factories. That indicates attention to detail.
The whole country is clean.
Others could learn a lot. Such different work ethics we all have.

[highwayman]

The reality of the situation is individuals like
burbot and willy aren't interested in
acknowledging any of the numerous lucrative
nearby or future pricing opportunities. They are
only content to bitch and moan and preach the
sky will fall in fear that their neighbor might
achieve something better than they have. It is
great to see wheat and durum finally performing
as the cash crops they should. For the first time in
my 32 years of farming I can use our wheat and
durum crops to meet our cash flow needs in the
same fashion we use the rest of the crops we
grow. If the CWB truly desires to succeed the first
order of business should be to remove the
arrogant ideology that still lingers their from the
single desk Gestapo. And if it should fail, who
gives a rats ass.

[tubs]

when have you guys heard about german labor strikes. there seem to be a better relation ship between owners and employees. here most people bitch about their work and if there is alittle slowdown companies lay people of right away.

[highwayman]

Oops wrong thread. Don't know how it got here

[parsley]

1.Impecable work ethic
2. Intelligent, not just smart, people
3. Education focused on engineering , science
and math
4. Commonality of purpose to rebild
5.Traits that encourage wealth creation: Self-
disciple, focus, and industry. Strive for ideal.

[hedgehog]

german banks major on backing industry,not property speculation, thats why they are way ahead of US,CANADA,UK.

[farmaholic]

Parsley: Don't forget good looking too!

[cottonpicken]

Ahhhh.who the **** holds the sovereign debts of
other countries and is leveraged at 25 to 1,which
means a 4% right down means....dead.

I won't ask for your opinion on canada,and its big five
because you and no one else has a clue.

I could ask the question-why where the banks bailed
out?-and the answers would range from
mmmmm...to rich guys....to because ummm they
couldn't pay their employees.

I could ask another question and ask-does it effect
you?,i won't bother with responses but if i said your
family now owes another 100g on top of your own
stuff,the response would be -no it aint,you don't
know nuttin nigga,no no no no.

The responses are based on low level low income
medians to high level high educated types.

Think back to your graduation class...some of those
people are the ones running the show.

Regionally,thank god we are here,but all off western
canada is like the annoying good looking,hard
working rich kid cousin of eastern canada,who by
birth right deserves the fruits of our labours and
everyone should bow to flag and its "all canadians
together".

God help me i'd love to see the look on mansbridges
face and the party ddddddd k bec wa face when
western canadians held their own **** off referendum
.

Alas,everyone feels some sort of a kin ship to the
syrup suckers who hate them and beg them to stay.

[cottonpicken]

And when it comes to that video,don't let the fact that
china and india have multiple "pools" of labour doing
the same thing at a fraction of the price.

[bobofthenorth]

That video was a typical NPR snow job. A load of crap IOW. It never once mentioned where all that wonderful economy came from. We bombed the bastards back into the stone age and then the (US) Marshall Plan came in and rebuilt their economy.

[blackpowder]

I've never been to Germany. But the factorys appeared quite different than here.
Watch on youtube 'Dirty Jobs' Mike Rowe on lamb castration, PETA, and American labor'.
His lecture on the dignity of work seems to point to the German advantage?
Threads of common identity that form a culture can't be altered in a decade, or by a few govt policies.
We could start by admitting all people are not equal of ability. Trade schools after junior high. Stop transfering money between have and have not regions and let people flow instead. We might have more employees in Canada than we think. Deed aboriginal lands. Castrate all unions so they stop perpetually creating their 'need' out of blatant self interest. Rethink our mosaic with everyones right to distinct society.
Oh well, enough talking martian.

[sumdumguy]

Media propaganda, crap for sure. Do I believe
any of it - not for one minute.