Seems funny to me what bad things u have to say about other countries, when in yours racism is still very much present, there are more fat people in US than anywhere else in the world, your leaders are idiots, you play policeman of the world,....

Just plizz settle your own problems b4 u start commenting on other country ones. If u really think that u help countries to protect liberty than u r an even bigger fool I already think u are. US helped NOONE if there wasnt any economic or strategic gain for them. In WW2 u only send troops when u actually realized that your allies might actually loose the war, so u might not get payed for the shipments u send them. Also b4 u critisize Germany and other "old European" countries as u called them remember that in WW2 they ALL were ALMOST LEVELED to the ground, all industry destroyed, countries in great debt,...
The last war that was fought on your soil was the civil war, I suspect that is why u are so eager to go to war in other countries, people have simply forgot how it feels, noone remebers it and the only see it on TV. Hell if we help them and get some oil in return why the hell shouldnt we go to war, maybe Holywood will even make a movie about it in some years, so we can all see again how our glorious armies destroyed the enemy who is 50 years behind us in tech and is outnumbered 20:1. And how we didnt even have to engage them just slaughter them with missiles from where they couldnt hurt us, and when they retreated in civil areas we simply bombed there, a hospital destroyed here and there, who cares right?

(in this I also replied for the statements in politic thread US sends their brave sons and daughters to fight for us, and how they die and blablablalbla)

PS: That remark that your leaders are idiots is strickly of personal nature and nothing has been proven to proven my convictions

Don't mix up the posts. wink.gif

coolhandab => the US guy

me => the German guy who likes his country and thinks there are less problems than everyone says

smile.gif The socialist country I meant was East Germany (aka DDR = GDR).

And the problem with the socialism in that case is the way the economy was handled. And the fact that neither the infrastructure nor the economy itself was in good condition. Masses of money went into increasing the standards in East Germany. In fact, you still get lower wages in East Germany today. The process is not over. There still is the "solidarity tax" which is meant to help with that.

And that's one of the reasons for the weak economy now and the high unemployment rate. But still, it's better to have a unified Germany after all. So we have to accept the problems and work further on solving them.


I mostly agree with Baron, although I wouldn't use such a drastic language.
I'm more for diplomacy... an optimistic person. Concerning that, coolhandab was right.