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Old 02-21-2011, 12:25 PM
 
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Wow this thread is hilarious.

Apparently all if not most Germans are industrious and participate in group think.

Personally I thought all Germans were chubby and liked chocolate.

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Old 02-21-2011, 12:29 PM
 
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Ah, so Germany has the same % of latinos and AAs in their country? Thought so.

Like I said, there's a reason they're curtailing immigration.
Can't you read? Germany has the same % of foreign born residents as the USA, most of them MUSLIMS...the people some here fear more than Latinos and/or AA.

And you still haven't answered my question.
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Old 02-21-2011, 12:34 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ics_of_Germany

Germans of no immigrant background, 81%

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._United_States

Now, how many illegal immigrants in our population? How many non-whites in this nation? Muslims make up a single digit percentage of the German population, and the government is already trying to keep them more pure and nip their immigration problem in the bud, else their socialist system fail.

Hyperbole with fat guys eating chocolate make summers laugh.
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Old 02-21-2011, 12:58 PM
 
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped...ics_of_Germany

Germans of no immigrant background, 81%

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._United_States

Now, how many illegal immigrants in our population? How many non-whites in this nation? Muslims make up a single digit percentage of the German population, and the government is already trying to keep them more pure and nip their immigration problem in the bud, else their socialist system fail.

Hyperbole with fat guys eating chocolate make summers laugh.
Still didn't answer the question. Germany has similar numbers of immigrants like the US. You said Germans think alike. What makes you think this?
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Old 02-21-2011, 01:00 PM
 
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Still didn't answer the question. Germany has similar numbers of immigrants like the US. You said Germans think alike. What makes you think this?
No stereotyping on this thread
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Old 02-21-2011, 01:01 PM
 
Location: Raleigh, NC
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Sorry, I'm still getting a kick out of that strawman argument, that fat chocolate eating kid. He's so adorable.
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Old 02-21-2011, 01:07 PM
 
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The Krugman crew sure doesn't like the fact they can't hyperinflate.

Krugman-in-Wonderland: Krugman: Greece Could "Solve" Its Problems if it Could Print More Money
It doesn't answer the question at all.
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Old 02-21-2011, 01:08 PM
 
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You are relying on an undemocratic bloated incomprehensible bureaucracy to manage it instead of the individual governments.
And that answers why Euro, the currency, was a "huge mistake"??
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Old 02-21-2011, 01:09 PM
 
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It doesn't answer the question at all.
I disagree. Krugman and his merry band of economic retards believe that the Euro prohibits the Greeks from inflating their currency.
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Old 02-21-2011, 01:13 PM
 
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I couldn't disagree more. Think and act alike? The German political spectrum spans considerably wider than the US one, left and right both.

As for "authority driven", in my experience a German worker will speak considerably freer to a senior manager than a US worker would. Hell, the German worker even has at least one representative on the board. By law. Modern Germany has been brought up with a sound skepticism to authority, with the mid-20th century as the ever-present warning. They acknowledge the dangers and they're not going down that path again.

I had considerably more authority to act on my own when I worked in Germany, where the US model seems to insist on having any number of middle managers signing off on everything.
I have also worked in north Europe and I agree. They tend to give individuals far more responsibilities and authority and pro-activity is encouraged, and they don't have an armies of middle managers like we do here in US rubber stamping everything.
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