Here's the link again...http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/08/1989-berlin-wall
this bitch writes:
On 9 November 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down I realised German unification would soon follow, which it did a year later. This meant the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the country in which I was born, grew up, gave birth to my two children, gained my doctorate and enjoyed a fulfilling job as a lecturer in English literature at Potsdam University. Of course, unification brought with it the freedom to travel the world and, for some, more material wealth, but it also brought social breakdown, widespread unemployment, blacklisting, a crass materialism and an "elbow society" as well as a demonisation of the country I lived in and helped shape. Despite the advantages, for many it was more a disaster than a celebratory event.
Ummmmmmmmmm WHAT???? blacklisting? Demonistion of anything? You are refering to the same country that was sooooooo wonderful that they had to build a wall around it to KEEP THE FREAKIG PEOPLE OUT??????? Yah OK.
Lady you were protected. I am very sure you were a card carring member fo the ruling party. They were for the most part untouchable. The STASI would not arrest you or a member of your family unless you pissed on a Soviet monument in public while on a drinking binge.
So shut the hell up about your crap. Sadly she goes on...
Little is known here about what happened to the GDR economy when the wall fell. Once the border was open the government decided to set up a trusteeship to ensure that "publicly owned enterprises" (the majority of businesses) would be transferred to the citizens who'd created the wealth. However, a few months before unification, the then newly elected conservative government handed over the trusteeship to west German appointees, many representing big business interests. The idea of "publicly owned" assets being transferred to citizens was quietly dropped. Instead all assets were privatised at breakneck speed. More then 85% were bought by west Germans and many were closed soon after. In the countryside 1.7 million hectares of agricultural and forest land were sold off and 80% of agricultural workers lost their job.
Have you ever stopped to think or even question why this happened? Well lets see your "wonderful" system and country never allowed private ownership of land or companies. Everything was collective. Means that the state owned and controlled everything. So If you own nothing then how can you understand the meaning of the concept.
Your "country" that you miss and loved so much ws 40 years behind on all levels. Be it agricultural, medical, educational, finicial, moral, technicial and everything else. Your people were still tryig to plow firlds with horse drawn plows! How could anyone compete like that. Naturally the farms were lost to big businesses. Also under your great system once a farmer met his quota for the month, quarter or season he stopped. Crops rotted in the felds simply becasue he had no reason what so ever to work further. The money he recieved was the same.
In July 1990, when the GDR still existed, a hasty "currency union" was introduced with the result that the GDR economy was plunged into bankruptcy. Before unification the West German mark was worth 4.50 GDR marks; however, at currency union it was fixed at parity with an exchange rate of 1:1. The result was that GDR export products rose in price by 450% overnight and were no longer competitive; the export market (39% of the economy) inevitably imploded.
I was hoping this would come out.
Lady what was there to buy in the east? Expensive cars, VCR's, Walkmen, houses? What? Not a damn thing. Hell there was barely enough food to buy in the stores under your wonderful system. So what did people do with the money? They saved it. They put it away. When the wall came crashig down and the east mark was worth 1:1 with the west mark people came tothe west and shot thier load of on cars, TV's, VCR's, satalite dishes, vacations, food and everything else they needed.
When I heard this I was amazed. Truels shocked. My father was stationed in Berlin. I had been to the East and I knew the real value of the east mark. Lets just say we used it sometimes to blow our noses as a joke. Kleenex was worth more than the east mark. Suddendly it was worth something and the people went nuts.
Retirement. Yep there is that little word. Of all your time in living and working in the east how much did you pay into a west German retirement plan? Not a red cent. So when you retire you'll get your full retirement but have paied very little in to it. Now yer making cash writing about the evils of the west? The same system that will make damn sure you live deciently when you decide to retire? Ungratefull bitch.
Never fear there is a political party for you here in Germany. Die Linke. The Left. They are the remnents of your old wonderful system. They are working hard to bring back your system and to turn Germany back 60 years. I am sure you are a card carring member and voted for them with glee.
I'll stick to the system that made Germany great and keeps Germany strong and stabil. You stick to pointing fingers of blame for the problems you and your system created. You continue to protect the same system that shot people for wanting freedom of choice.
I asked a question at the top of the post that I heard asked a former party member of the DDR who was defending his system. The question:
If the DDR was so wonderful why did they build a wall. To keep people out or in? Please answer it for me please.
Montag, 9. November 2009
20 years ago today...
...the Berlin Wall fell. Many things have happened here in Germany since. "Ossie" and "Wessie" labels have faded. Yes it is one Germany but there are still many differences.
For the last 20 years the German government has been "re-building" the east. Yes it was needed. The infrastructure was a complete mess. Roads were terrible, most appartment buildings were drafty and the heating systems, well lets just say sucked. So the German government started pumping billions in tothe east. To cover the costs the government invented something new. The then chancilor Kohl said this would be needed for only a few years. Well guess what? Those few years has turned in to 20 and we are still paying for it. I ask why? Autobahn 9 form Nuremburg to Berlin is one of the best and most modern highways in Europe. It has been finished for 4 years now and still we are paying. Why? Leipzig, Dresden and the east part of Berlin are up to par with the west. Still we pay.
In the West major repairs and expansions were put on hold for 20 years! Just now things are kicking in again. A3 that runs from northwest German to just south of Nuremberg where it meets with A6 and A9 is a wreck. When driving south form Cologne, like I do very often, it turns from 3 lanes to 2 lanes. Same amount of cars but less room creating a traffic nightmare equal to LA during afternoon rush hour. Then toss in 4 major construction areas and it is just impossiable to drive at a walking pace.
yes I am ranting. Look for me next post to find out exactly why.....
For the last 20 years the German government has been "re-building" the east. Yes it was needed. The infrastructure was a complete mess. Roads were terrible, most appartment buildings were drafty and the heating systems, well lets just say sucked. So the German government started pumping billions in tothe east. To cover the costs the government invented something new. The then chancilor Kohl said this would be needed for only a few years. Well guess what? Those few years has turned in to 20 and we are still paying for it. I ask why? Autobahn 9 form Nuremburg to Berlin is one of the best and most modern highways in Europe. It has been finished for 4 years now and still we are paying. Why? Leipzig, Dresden and the east part of Berlin are up to par with the west. Still we pay.
In the West major repairs and expansions were put on hold for 20 years! Just now things are kicking in again. A3 that runs from northwest German to just south of Nuremberg where it meets with A6 and A9 is a wreck. When driving south form Cologne, like I do very often, it turns from 3 lanes to 2 lanes. Same amount of cars but less room creating a traffic nightmare equal to LA during afternoon rush hour. Then toss in 4 major construction areas and it is just impossiable to drive at a walking pace.
yes I am ranting. Look for me next post to find out exactly why.....
Dienstag, 27. Oktober 2009
My thoughts 27 Oct 2009
- Tired didn't sleep that well last night and had problems getting back to sleep got coffee hooked up to an IV...
- If yer gonna be at MTC in Cologne Germany tonight let me know. I'll let ya buy me a brew... :-)
- If any guy thinks they have the best girlfriend in the world. YOU. ARE. WRONG! Yep yer wrong cause I have her! And she only has eyes for me! So suck it!
- Rats have gotten a really bad rap over the years. None of the bullshit is true. Rats are smarter than dogs, more loyal than cats and cleaner than both combined! So the old argument of wether dogs are smarter than cats is settled. Neither are smarter than rats.
- From the Darkbuster song Skinhead "Skinhead skinhead drink tonoght! They beers are going down like water!"
Obama in Berlin???
Why isn't the "leader of the free world" going to Berlin to remember the falling of the Berlin wall and the unification of Germany? hmmmmmmmm Could it be that his policies now are conflicting with the speach he gave last year in Berlin? Could be.
No idea but I am wondering. Every president has made it every year and laid a wreath at the memorial of the people killed trying to cross over from the east. Why can't he make the 20th anniversey? HE can fly to Copenhagen to give his pitch for the Olympics. Damn near a personal trip. No he has to continue his war with a news network. While more and more men in Afganistan die while he twiddels his thumbs waiting for the politically correct time to act.
Mr President either fight the war to win or get our troops home! Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!
No idea but I am wondering. Every president has made it every year and laid a wreath at the memorial of the people killed trying to cross over from the east. Why can't he make the 20th anniversey? HE can fly to Copenhagen to give his pitch for the Olympics. Damn near a personal trip. No he has to continue his war with a news network. While more and more men in Afganistan die while he twiddels his thumbs waiting for the politically correct time to act.
Mr President either fight the war to win or get our troops home! Lead, follow or get the hell out of the way!
Montag, 26. Oktober 2009
My thoghts
I've thought about adding this for a week now and I have decided.
I used to twitt or what ever it's called. I just don't like it. I have facebook, myspace, WKW, 4 mail addresses, an iPhone and it is just too much. No thanks I clesed my account and left it at that. But I'll add my thoughts here.
I used to twitt or what ever it's called. I just don't like it. I have facebook, myspace, WKW, 4 mail addresses, an iPhone and it is just too much. No thanks I clesed my account and left it at that. But I'll add my thoughts here.
- Still waiting on someone to tell me why they voted for Obama. Seems like the French have bigger balls than Obama.
- Unemployment is way up in the US. What happened to those "shovel ready jobs" Mr. President.?
- If the president is such a wonderful world leader then why is it that terrorists are laughing at him?
- I love to cook! I really love cooking for my girlfriend!
- If CO² emmisions are lowered as the greens want then what will trees and plants breath?
- If Bus was so bad why is it that Obama has changed so very little of his policies? hmmmmmmmmm
- Everything Bush was accused of for 8 years: killing free speech, limiting freedoms, taking over private businesses, waging war recklessly is exactly what Obama is doing. Where are the protests calling for his death?
Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009
The One and the olympics
This past week President Obama went to Copenhagen and made his pitch for the 2016 Summer games. hmmmmmmmmm Why? Why did he go? No other president has done this. Why did he feel compelled to? OHHHH I know he's from Chicago. Yah and? Does that mean he the president for the people of Chicago? No idea. I'm not even going to get in to the theories that I ahve been reading.
I read his speach he gave in Copenhagen. It was a love fest of, from and to his self. "My sacrifices, the bold new age that came to pass when I was elected. "
The IOC voted Chicago out in the first round. No idea why but I do have some ideas. No I won't get in to them. Am I gloating? You bet. One of the stands that Obama ran his election on was if he were to be elected the entire world would "love" us again. I call bullshit then and I still do. This only proves my point. the people who in fact like us I can break down in to 3 catagories
1) They see the sacrifices Americans have made through out our history to promote and defend freedom. Take Germany and WWII as a good example. After WWII The US could have made Germany a state. But CHOSE not to. Instead th US loaned Germany a boat load of money, which has been paid back including intrest, and built a modern country. They did so ver well. They also chose thier own form of government. there are many other examples but I think you get the idea
2) People who have benifited form America's sacrifice. I have been to Normandy a few times. I love going there and feeling the history. D-Day being one of America's hardest sacrifices has turned in to a day, for people in the area to be a day to be thankful. There is a woman that lives there. She was a little girl, her words, during the invasion. She grows flowers in her garden. Those flowers she picks and places a flower on the grave of every soldier buried there. American, French, English or Canadian. She never mentioned the Germans and I never asked her. She has thanked every D-Day veteran that has visited the sights. She opens her home to the men. She thanked me the time I met her for my service to my country and to the people of the world. I was in tears.
3) People paying lip service to a good thing. Examples are many but I'll stick to one. Saudi Arabia. It was American technology that found and pumped oil out of the ground in Saudi. It was Americans who provided the means in which the people there could make tons of money. Then turn around and try to blackmale the world in to paying more for oil then what it's worth AND worse yet sponsering terrorism. But Gosh steffen they sure love thier freedom! Really? Have you been there? I have. A country where a goat has more rights than a woman. Yes thats right a man could go to jail for killing a goat but be praised as a hero for killing a woman. Where a woman can't drive vote or even show her face in public. Freedom? None there.
Obama never really understood that the world is a complicated place. If the world hated the US so bad why are millions of people a year trying to get in to the US to live and work? Legally and illegally. I have been living here in Germany since 1994. I have only one time wittnessed any kind of hatred. It was a student with a big mouth and no grasp of facts. He also made my daughter cry and got a slap from me for that. I have seen Germans bend over backwards to make American tourists feel welcome and to help them. I saw the same in Spain and Turkey. So Mr. Obama why would the world suddendly change becasue you are president? Are you really that arrogant? I now think so.
Back to topic. Why did I think that the summer games would not be such a hot idea for Chicago? Money. Simple and easy. You see Chicago is just about broke. They would not have been able to afford to build all the shiney new building needed. they would have had to take a few loans. But from where? The state is broke. The federal government is damn near broke. So where to get the money. Not from a bank as the return for hosting the games, well sucks. As seen in the last 3 cities that hosted the games they lost millions. Notice lost not being a good thing. They are stuck with the bill. Peking is tying to come up with ways to rent out all the buildings. Funny eh? I don't think so.
I love the summer games. It's a chance for athletes to shine. they work damn hard training and it's thier time to prove thier hard work. But as seen in many games in the past they have turned in to a political theater. No longer being about the sports or the athletes. Well I wouldn't care if the games were done away with. Not really my problem. But as long as we have then I will continue to enjoy them.
I read his speach he gave in Copenhagen. It was a love fest of, from and to his self. "My sacrifices, the bold new age that came to pass when I was elected. "
The IOC voted Chicago out in the first round. No idea why but I do have some ideas. No I won't get in to them. Am I gloating? You bet. One of the stands that Obama ran his election on was if he were to be elected the entire world would "love" us again. I call bullshit then and I still do. This only proves my point. the people who in fact like us I can break down in to 3 catagories
1) They see the sacrifices Americans have made through out our history to promote and defend freedom. Take Germany and WWII as a good example. After WWII The US could have made Germany a state. But CHOSE not to. Instead th US loaned Germany a boat load of money, which has been paid back including intrest, and built a modern country. They did so ver well. They also chose thier own form of government. there are many other examples but I think you get the idea
2) People who have benifited form America's sacrifice. I have been to Normandy a few times. I love going there and feeling the history. D-Day being one of America's hardest sacrifices has turned in to a day, for people in the area to be a day to be thankful. There is a woman that lives there. She was a little girl, her words, during the invasion. She grows flowers in her garden. Those flowers she picks and places a flower on the grave of every soldier buried there. American, French, English or Canadian. She never mentioned the Germans and I never asked her. She has thanked every D-Day veteran that has visited the sights. She opens her home to the men. She thanked me the time I met her for my service to my country and to the people of the world. I was in tears.
3) People paying lip service to a good thing. Examples are many but I'll stick to one. Saudi Arabia. It was American technology that found and pumped oil out of the ground in Saudi. It was Americans who provided the means in which the people there could make tons of money. Then turn around and try to blackmale the world in to paying more for oil then what it's worth AND worse yet sponsering terrorism. But Gosh steffen they sure love thier freedom! Really? Have you been there? I have. A country where a goat has more rights than a woman. Yes thats right a man could go to jail for killing a goat but be praised as a hero for killing a woman. Where a woman can't drive vote or even show her face in public. Freedom? None there.
Obama never really understood that the world is a complicated place. If the world hated the US so bad why are millions of people a year trying to get in to the US to live and work? Legally and illegally. I have been living here in Germany since 1994. I have only one time wittnessed any kind of hatred. It was a student with a big mouth and no grasp of facts. He also made my daughter cry and got a slap from me for that. I have seen Germans bend over backwards to make American tourists feel welcome and to help them. I saw the same in Spain and Turkey. So Mr. Obama why would the world suddendly change becasue you are president? Are you really that arrogant? I now think so.
Back to topic. Why did I think that the summer games would not be such a hot idea for Chicago? Money. Simple and easy. You see Chicago is just about broke. They would not have been able to afford to build all the shiney new building needed. they would have had to take a few loans. But from where? The state is broke. The federal government is damn near broke. So where to get the money. Not from a bank as the return for hosting the games, well sucks. As seen in the last 3 cities that hosted the games they lost millions. Notice lost not being a good thing. They are stuck with the bill. Peking is tying to come up with ways to rent out all the buildings. Funny eh? I don't think so.
I love the summer games. It's a chance for athletes to shine. they work damn hard training and it's thier time to prove thier hard work. But as seen in many games in the past they have turned in to a political theater. No longer being about the sports or the athletes. Well I wouldn't care if the games were done away with. Not really my problem. But as long as we have then I will continue to enjoy them.
ummmmmm yah about that
I found this during my travels across the net. It troubles me. It really does. http://redmaryland.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-worship-comes-to-howard-county.html
This is the third such happenence in the last few weeks. Elementry kids singing praises to Obama. I can hear my girlfriend asking me "yah and? Whats's the problem with kids singing about Obama?"
Well dear is it rather simple and here's why:
We had 8 years of the left in America ranting and slobbering about how they were afraid of people doing the same for Bush. Now that we have Obama is't all OK.
These are elementry school kids ages 5 to 13. They are easy to form. They can be swung from one side to the next easy as setting up yer own blog. Using kids to push a political agenda is sick and disgusting. These kids are now a shield against retort, dissent and open discussion. As soon as someone speaks up against Obama that person will be asked about "the children" and asked why he "hates the children" The left is well known for this tactic and have used it in the mast many many times.
Teachers are supposed to teach kids to think freely and prepare them for getting out on thier own. This does the oppisite. Indoctronating children does not teach them the 3 R's. Apolitical agenda will not help them get a good job nor prepare them for striking out on thier own.
Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Chavez, Castro, Che, Lenin and som many other brutal dicators did the same. They all used children for thier own agenda and in most cases kids were tought to turn in thier parents for speaking out against the party. Now I don't think it will come to this in America but it has all started with kids being forced to sing praises to the "Dear Leader"
Having said all the above, and I believe it, I don't think Obama is personally at fault here. I am sure he knows what is going on but I don't think he has ordered it. B U T He is aware of it and he is not denouncing it. The exact same as supporting it. If he was half as honest as he claims he would say something along these lines:
"I have seen the videos and heard the songs. They are good and I thank the children for thier praise. I am but one man. I do not deserve these high praises. Our soldiers, firemen, doctors, nurses, EMT's derserve them......
But he won't. As we saw this week in Copenhagen it's all about him. The sacrifices he makes and how hard he is working to change and how wonderful it is to be him. No he won't say a word against it. Thats makes him incredibly vain and arrogant.
I'll be writing about the 2016 Chicago bid next.....This one was funny.
This is the third such happenence in the last few weeks. Elementry kids singing praises to Obama. I can hear my girlfriend asking me "yah and? Whats's the problem with kids singing about Obama?"
Well dear is it rather simple and here's why:
We had 8 years of the left in America ranting and slobbering about how they were afraid of people doing the same for Bush. Now that we have Obama is't all OK.
These are elementry school kids ages 5 to 13. They are easy to form. They can be swung from one side to the next easy as setting up yer own blog. Using kids to push a political agenda is sick and disgusting. These kids are now a shield against retort, dissent and open discussion. As soon as someone speaks up against Obama that person will be asked about "the children" and asked why he "hates the children" The left is well known for this tactic and have used it in the mast many many times.
Teachers are supposed to teach kids to think freely and prepare them for getting out on thier own. This does the oppisite. Indoctronating children does not teach them the 3 R's. Apolitical agenda will not help them get a good job nor prepare them for striking out on thier own.
Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Chavez, Castro, Che, Lenin and som many other brutal dicators did the same. They all used children for thier own agenda and in most cases kids were tought to turn in thier parents for speaking out against the party. Now I don't think it will come to this in America but it has all started with kids being forced to sing praises to the "Dear Leader"
Having said all the above, and I believe it, I don't think Obama is personally at fault here. I am sure he knows what is going on but I don't think he has ordered it. B U T He is aware of it and he is not denouncing it. The exact same as supporting it. If he was half as honest as he claims he would say something along these lines:
"I have seen the videos and heard the songs. They are good and I thank the children for thier praise. I am but one man. I do not deserve these high praises. Our soldiers, firemen, doctors, nurses, EMT's derserve them......
But he won't. As we saw this week in Copenhagen it's all about him. The sacrifices he makes and how hard he is working to change and how wonderful it is to be him. No he won't say a word against it. Thats makes him incredibly vain and arrogant.
I'll be writing about the 2016 Chicago bid next.....This one was funny.
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