Terwyl hier nog inkennige poeppolle is wat toetentaal en al in ontkenning en in onkunde probeer leef van die waarlike verval in Europa, kan NIEMAND die waarheid wegwens of veel langer ontken nie, want dit daar ons oop en bloot in die gesig!
Vat nou maar Duitsland ... eens die magtigste Nazistaat ter wêreld, tot en met Verwoerd en sy trawante SA opgedruk het tot die voorste gestoeltes.
Duitsland is gepamperlang na WWO2, sy sondes en skulde flink vergewe, en siedaar die plekkie was op koers.
Alles het goeterig gegaan vir die afgelope 60 jaartjies of hoe?
Maar nou het die gevreesde siektes van die Weste ook met Duitsland opgevang!
Die mense is onvrugbaar van te veel suip en dwelms, soos trouens in elke enkele ander Westerse land.
Dit beteken dat mense van beter gehalte ingevoer moet word, miljoene Turke is dus ingebring om die gaping te vul. En die Turke is nie skaam om aan te teel nie, anders as die goeie Xtentjies bv nie ... maar tog, steeds krimp die bevolking, en die geldjies raak al hoe minder ... so lees ons.
In “Looking to 2060”, a report on the world’s growth prospects, the OECD forecast last year that Germany would achieve average annual growth of 1.1 per cent from 2011 to 2060. This put Germany, next to Luxembourg, at the bottom of the OECD’s 42-nation survey. The International Monetary Fund estimates that Germany’s potential growth rate is 1.25 per cent. Nations such as Greece, whose economy has shrunk by a calamitous 25 per cent during the crisis, or Italy, whose economy has contracted for eight consecutive quarters, would happily swap their slumps for Germany’s meagre growth. But to eke out 50 years of almost invisible economic expansion will not give Germany strength and confidence to lead Europe from the front.
Bid jou dit aan, 1 enkele persent groei vir die volgende 50 jaartjies!!
Boonop gaan dit veel erger word:
The causes of the decline include a very low birth rate and modest levels of net immigration. At 1.36 births per woman, Germany has one of the lowest rates in Europe. More important is that, for the past 30 years, fertility rates have been below the level of 2.1 children per woman needed to maintain a population’s size. For many years to come, there will be fewer potential German mothers. The government is taking steps to encourage parenthood, such as a recent law that guarantees a place at a day care facility for every child over 12 months old. But state-sponsored pronatalism is a delicate matter in a country with unpleasant memories of Nazi schemes to promote motherhood.
That leaves immigration. It emerged from the UK government archives this month that Helmut Kohl, the former German chancellor, had told Margaret Thatcher, the late premier, in 1982 that he planned to halve Germany’s then 1.5 million strong population of Turkish immigrants within four years because they did not integrate well. The plan never materialised, and German political debate, citizenship laws and social attitudes have all moved on a long way since those days. Net immigration went up to 369,000 last year. But Germany’s immigration system remains too restrictive: non-EU residents tend to be kept out unless they are skilled applicants for well-paid jobs. It is a woefully inadequate way of tackling Germany’s chronic shortages of engineers, information technology specialists, pharmacists, social workers and other professionals.
Shaaim huh, en so lui die doodsklokke vir beide Duitsland en die EU ...
Three other areas crying out for improvement are infrastructure, education and research and development. Germany spends less than any large EU country on upgrading roads, railways and waterways. Ageing infrastructure, like that of the rust belt of north-western Germany, drags down economic performance. As a percentage of economic output, Germany spends less on education and R&D than Austria, Belgium, Finland, France and the Netherlands.
Growth-enhancing reforms are essential because German economic success is the ultimate guarantee that the eurozone will survive and flourish. Germany is Europe’s most powerful economy. But it is not powerful enough.
Byt vas en auf wedersehn ... geen wonder SA swerm van die Duisters nie ... hulle WEET!!
Francois Williams