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2007-06-01 Europe

German brain drain at highest level since 1940s

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Posted by Steve White 2007-06-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 High taxes, low pay, and hatred towards the well-off: sounds like an ideal Socialist state. Why on Earth would people be leaving it?

Posted by gromky 2007-06-01 02:56|| 2007-06-01 02:56|| Front Page Top

#2 High "success fines" and a government committed to envy politics more like.

Wonder why the successful leave, it's almost like they feel persecuted or something....

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2007-06-01 05:21|| 2007-06-01 05:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Fed up with comparatively poor job prospects at home - where unemployment is as high as 17 per cent in some regions - as well as high taxes and bureaucracy, thousands of Germans have upped sticks for Austria and Switzerland, or emigrated to the United States.

Hillary '08
It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few and for the few, time to reject the idea of an "on your own" society and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity. I prefer a "we're all in it together" society.

Being a socialist means never having to learn. Repeating the same mistake over and over and over again.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-06-01 07:03|| 2007-06-01 07:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Pro-
I've heard insanity defined as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-01 07:28|| 2007-06-01 07:28|| Front Page Top

#5 feelings of jealousy towards high-income earners is widespread.

This is nothing new. When we lived there in the early '90s, Mr. Wife's company rented us a little 150 square meter house (well under 2000 sq.ft.) with a small garden (I literally cut the lawn with my kitchen scissors -- a 3 sq. ft. patch). When trailing daughter #1 came of age, we sent her to a local German preschool. Some of the mothers would not let their children come over to play when they discovered we lived in the entire house. For perspective, that village had one of the highest average incomes in all of Germany; one of the neighbors was a titled graefin, another raised the family flag every morning when she was in residence... and a number of the locals in the American Women's Club playgroup were married to corporate presidents, CEOs and suchlike immensities. At the time, Mr. Wife was definitely a corporate peon. When I got a very used little BMW to drive around in, I was twitted for taking my husband's car. Husbands in management drove only BMWs or Mercedes, you see; their wives drove only VW something-or-others (I don't remember which one, but not the Beetle), the only choice being the colour. It felt to me almost like the Medieval sumptuary laws, where each class of society wore prescribed materials and styles of clothing, hats and shoes, and jewelry, to avoid overwheening pride and extravagance of appearance.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-01 07:29|| 2007-06-01 07:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps they should build a wall around the country. They'd need to put landmines around it, towers with machine guns, and have trained dogs to hunt anyone attempting escape. I think it's simple, don't you?

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-06-01 07:41|| 2007-06-01 07:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Time to re-brand. Change the name to Turkmany.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-06-01 07:46|| 2007-06-01 07:46|| Front Page Top

#8 We'll take your talented, educated and motivated masses. The rest of you can stay in your self-made hell.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-01 08:24|| 2007-06-01 08:24|| Front Page Top

#9 It must really tick them off that America is such a popular destination.

This kind of kills the "Why do they hate us?" meme, doesn't it?

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-06-01 08:39|| 2007-06-01 08:39|| Front Page Top

#10 We'll trade ya all our arabs for 50,000 highly educated, exceptionally motivated Germans.

That's a sweet deal for you.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-06-01 08:50|| 2007-06-01 08:50|| Front Page Top

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