German unemployment highest since 1930's

[opebo]

Being unemployed in Germany is better than being employed in a larger percentage of the jobs in America.

Obviously I'd rather live in a land of free health care and generous unemployment benefits than in the land of scraping by with 3 WalMart/McDonalds style jobs.

[opebo]

Being unemployed in Germany is better than being employed in a larger percentage of the jobs in America.

Obviously I'd rather live in a land of free health care and generous unemployment benefits than in the land of scraping by with 3 WalMart/McDonalds style jobs.

Give up your citizenship then.  Please, you are a disgrace to this country.

Believe me, if I could swap American citizenship for citizenship in almost any Western European country, I would do so eagerly!

[opebo]

Being unemployed in Germany is better than being employed in a larger percentage of the jobs in America.

Even if this were true, it's horrible for the country... if absolutely nobody's working, the country will become stagnant and overly dependent on everyone else.

Germany's doing fine.  They have massive exports of high-value added goods, great jobs for many, and great benefits for those that are unemployed.  Great quality of life for the vast majority of people.  The US by contrast has a third world economy - great wealth for the top 1 or 2 percent, and miserable scraping for the bottom 60-70%.

Btw, those of you that are repeating the mantra of 'socialism doesn't work' are misrepresenting Germany.  Germany is not socialist, and in fact a capitalist country with some redistributionist moderation of capitalism's inevitable concentration of economic benefits works just fine.

[opebo]

Being unemployed in Germany is better than being employed in a larger percentage of the jobs in America.

Obviously I'd rather live in a land of free health care

Don't go to Germany then. We have compulsory healthcare, but not free healthcare.

So, are you saying that people without money, such as the unemployed, are allowed to die in the street? 

[opebo]

The Falling Dollar Syndrome.

Socialist Syndrome is more like it.

either way, it's the last time I listen to that fat bastard Neil Cavuto!

sorry for the rant.  bad investment advice.  I'm no good at this.  don't know what's going on in Germany.  Unemployment is, according to what I remember from microeconomics class, meant to vary inversely (or maybe negatively?) with inflation.  So, a stronger European Currency Unit means more inflation.  Now, I suppose you could call that "falling dollar syndrome" but that assumes the Dollar is the absolute, abject standard.  I don't think it is.  Thus, non-sequitor.  What about "Socialist syndrome" 

The strengthening Euro reduces inflation in Germany and other Euro countries, while the falling dollar increases inflation in the U.S.

[opebo]

Being unemployed in Germany is better than being employed in a larger percentage of the jobs in America.

Obviously I'd rather live in a land of free health care and generous unemployment benefits than in the land of scraping by with 3 WalMart/McDonalds style jobs.

Give up your citizenship then.  Please, you are a disgrace to this country.

Believe me, if I could swap American citizenship for citizenship in almost any Western European country, I would do so eagerly!

Actually, it is insanely easy to do.  Just go to any US consulate and formally renounce your US citizenship. 

You can learn how to become a British citizen here

It is not hard to learn how to gain citizenship in another nation.  If there is another nation you would like to learn about I will gladly help.

I suspect it is probably quite difficult to become a citizen of most nations, particularly the good ones like say the Netherlands, Belgium, or the Scandinavian countries.  Please share any information you have about those.