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   From: BigShot@TheWholeThing.org   
      
   "packard"  wrote in message   
   news:dhpd3l$js0$1@online.de...   
   > Former King of Pangea wrote:   
   >   
   >> 10% unemployment if France and 12% in Germany. And yet the stoopit Euros   
   >> just don't get it. Without reforming the welfare state, they will never   
   >> be competitive.   
   >   
   > And yet Germany is the world's biggest exporter, ahead of the US and   
   > Japan. Does not look like it is a lack of competetiveness that's holding   
   > Germany back, does it?   
      
   In order to export, there has to be somebody else importing. How many   
   Germans would lose their jobs if Americans stopped buying?   
      
   Lucky for Germans the American economy is much more resilient than theirs.   
      
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