Friday 06 - The Plunderers Are Coming. On the sell-off of Germany as a business location through the arrogance, stupidity and narrow-mindedness of politicians and business leaders in Germany:
No matter how often politicians like Schröder talk about important investments for Germany as a business location and invoke the jobs that will be created as a result - reality looks different. "Statistics are deceiving," the Handelsblatt states. "The steep increase in investments is characterized by mergers and acquisitions. And on balance, these have destroyed more jobs than they have created." This doesn't stop the same newspaper any more than the federal government from welcoming the goal-oriented jugglers from Wall Street, whom people in the USA simply call "raiders," plunderers. Completely wrong - says the Chancellor. These companies have "courage, principles and vision."
As it says so nicely in Uhu's Weblog:
The economy - at least in the long term - must serve people; but the principle of economy for economy's sake is illegitimate and thus insane?
Well. But who explains that to the industrial chancellor and his henchmen? Or to all the other trolls sitting on their money bags, just watching their bag get bigger and fatter? Work must pay - that's the only thing you hear from that direction. Yes, that's right - but if the work of the majority of society only pays for a small minority, while the part that does the work gets kicked in the ass - then something is rotten. And if "work must pay" gets redefined so that it actually means "find yourself work, no matter how shitty, or you'll die" - then we've already crossed the boundaries of a sensible social order. And that's why Uhu is probably right: first it has to go bang. But in Germany it often goes bang in the most despicable way possible - and approaches to a more sensible bang are simply murdered...