German unemployment highest since 1930's

[Tory]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4228739.stm

[phk]

The Falling Dollar Syndrome.

[Tory]

The Falling Dollar Syndrome.

Socialist Syndrome is more like it.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

IIRC they've changed the way the figures are calculated (which increases the number of unemployed).

[Tory]

IIRC they've changed the way the figures are calculated (which increases the number of unemployed).

It's more accurate now. Before, people that were on welfare were not counted as unemployed

[KEmperor]

IIRC they've changed the way the figures are calculated (which increases the number of unemployed).

It's more accurate now. Before, people that were on welfare were not counted as unemployed

Since when is being on welfare a job?

[Tory]

IIRC they've changed the way the figures are calculated (which increases the number of unemployed).

It's more accurate now. Before, people that were on welfare were not counted as unemployed

Since when is being on welfare a job?

It isn't.

[The Duke]

Where's opebo?  Shouldn't he be defending Eurosocialism like usual?

[Storebought]

IIRC they've changed the way the figures are calculated (which increases the number of unemployed).

It's more accurate now. Before, people that were on welfare were not counted as unemployed

Since when is being on welfare a job?

In France, being on welfare is damned hard work, what with all the street marches, grafitti tagging, union lobbying and influence peddling, etc.

[Richard]

Liberalism at work.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Good Lord... the usual three brain cell discussion about "Europe" and "Socialism"... in a minute Opebo will come along and say that being unemployed is a good thing...

Where's a certain Greenie from Frankfurt when you need him?
Oh well...

[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.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

They might count unemployment differently from the US, I'm not sure.

In the US, you can be actively looking for a job, and not be counted as unemployed - and it definitely doesn't count you if you gave up 2 years ago.

[Jake]

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.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Is anyone suprised?

SOCIALISM DOES NOT WORK

[Alcon]

Well, if the new numbers are higher, and more accurate, I'd like to see this same method applied to the old numbers so an actual change can be observed, if that is possible.

Nonetheless, socialism does not work.

[Gabu]

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.

[Storebought]

While one in ten Germans are unemployed, in Japan, they face a labor shortage so acute that Japanese workers today will need to work essentially until age 75, i.e. death, to support their social welfare system:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=127262005

Of course the government says they will merely "encourage" workers to keep going through their gray-haired years. But we know that in Japan, "Whatever isn't forbidden is compulsory".

[J. J.]

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.

What do you think has happened?  (That's rhetorical.)

[Platypus]

Damn it! I was hoping to use Godwin's Law, but even after almost 20 posts nobody mentioned the Nazis!

Damn it, I was expecting it to be the first reply

[KEmperor]

Damn it! I was hoping to use Godwin's Law, but even after almost 20 posts nobody mentioned the Nazis!

Damn it, I was expecting it to be the first reply

You are the first.  Now I can use it instead of you.  HAHA!!!

[Platypus]

Ah, but the exception to Godwin's Law is that if you use it to talk about Godwin's Law, it doesn't count.

[Lunar]

Regardless of whether socialism works or not,  this isn't "proof."  I can think of some capitalist countries that have failed too, meh.

[Gabu]

Damn it! I was hoping to use Godwin's Law, but even after almost 20 posts nobody mentioned the Nazis!

Damn it, I was expecting it to be the first reply

OMG TEH GERMAN SOCIALISTS ARE LIEK TEH NAZIS LOL!!!!!!!!1111

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Regardless of whether socialism works or not,  this isn't "proof."  I can think of some capitalist countries that have failed too, meh.

Exactly.
Besides the German system is hardly socialist... true it's big on state stuff but, and can you all PLEASE try to understand this, state does NOT = Socialism.