Ridiculous. Completely insane. Well, at least they make themselves look like fools with a stupid grin on their faces.
Not so funny is that at the same time Deutsche Telekom is supposed to cut 40,000 jobs. No matter how many songs and dances you come up with, that doesn't change things.
If you look at how many hundreds of thousands of jobs have been cut in recent years, you understand why unemployment can't go down: jobs are simply being destroyed.
No matter how many speeches the chancellor gives, if the economy is systematically running itself into the ground, there's no simple solution to that.
At heise online news you can find the original article.