Ungrateful bitch

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.