Nothing Makes Sense

There is a piece over on the Local...an opinion piece....that chats over unsatisfied Germans.  It's an interesting piece to ponder.

First, Germans are strangely dissatisfied currently.  The economy is actually recovering.  German stocks are paying dividends and actually increasing in value.  German banks are recovering.  The unemployment rate is reversing.  Cars are selling although it's not as high as it used to be.  Folks ought to be very happy....and they aren't.

The support for Merkel's strategy?  It's strangely not connecting.  Germans are actually mostly unhappy with the CDU and FDP engagement....but then they can't say anything great about the SPD.  The Greens?  They gain but it's off the SPD numbers mostly.

Second, Americans are dumping mostly on the Germans.  The economy in the US hasn't really recovered.  The strategy put out by the Obama team hasn't really done as much as the German plan.  The US needs some angle to cheapen the dollar and get Europeans...especially Germans...tied into buy cheap American products. They'd like to be the new "China" to Europe.  The logic in this is silly....but there's little else to hope for.

So on one side....you've got mostly unhappy Germans who ought to be happy, and on the other side....mostly happy Americans for no apparent reason.  It's like an episode out of the Twilight Zone.