Last night (Monday evening), ARD (public TV, Channel One) ran a 44-minute documentary piece, which ended up as a 'grading-point' on the Merkel sixteen year period.
So what you can say of the ARD interpretation? Basically....it weaves a 5,800-odd day story, and tries to assemble some type of scorecard.
A conclusion? The suggestion is basically revolving around two things: (1) a bunch of debt moved into the future for others to pay (suggesting the youth), and (2) a bunch of problems which evolved into multi-layered problems, which evolved into more problems.
Yeah, it was not the kind of 'grading-point' that you'd expect.
Suggesting a blame situation upon Merkel? Well....maybe that came across (while not intended).
Some people will say their lives are not any better today than when she started out in 2005.
More Germans on welfare today than sixteen years ago? No doubt. The long-term 'won't work' group has significant numbers. Kids growing up in a permanent welfare situation? Now an active issue.
Blame upon the Chancellor? So far, the ARD folks have never come up with a clever method to resolve all problems. Maybe if you could have a public 'fee-tax' where everyone got free money like public TV.....things would get better.
At the end of the 44-minute piece, I was kinda wondering if you took German public TV and allowed a review of the past sixteen years.....would the public give them decent grades, or marginally class them in the same way as Merkel?
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