Schnitzel Republic: Agreement on New Ministers Under Scholz

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Agreement on New Ministers Under Scholz

Focus reports here around noon....the list of some of the new ministers is now written in 'stone':

Chancellor: Scholz (SPD)

Ministry of Transport: Volker Wissing (FDP)

Ministry of Finance: Christian Lindner (FDP)

Ministry of Education: Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP)

Ministry of Justice: Marco Buschmann (FDP)

Foreign Ministry: Annalena Baerbock (Greens)

Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate: Robert Habeck (Greens)

Any shocks? No. Why the SPD hasn't listed people to jobs yet? Unknown. Greens have not listed three additional minister positions either.

Baerbock qualified for the Foreign Minister position? There will be lots of debate over this, and it wouldn't shock me if she lost or traded her seat in the next two years.

Lindner controlling the purse strings of the Finance Ministry? Probably a good thing.

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About the Collection of Essays

First, note that this is NOT a blog....it's a collection of essays similar in nature to what the Greek Plutarch attempted to write.

Second: NO, there will be no Facebook connection to the essay collection. Besides the negativity with FB, there is just too much potential in the future for censorship with FB.

Third, this log of essays is written by an American (not a German). If you are a German seeking commentary written by a German, on Germans....look elsewhere.

Fourth, I will offer wit and sarcasm on Germany, Germans, Germanology, German political figures, German TV, German beer, German food, German humor (or lack of), German habits, German weirdness, German news, German autos, German brilliance, German stupidity, German customs, German Nazis, German history, and German stubbornness.

Fifth (new), the essays are not about ethnic pathways to your grandfather or great-grandmother who was German. It relates present day Germans. If you are trying to get some understanding to your ancestor who packed up and left sixty years ago from the old 'homeland', then this blog is probably not for you.

I was one of those Americans who did over twenty years of military time....married a German....and eventually returned as a retiree.

I'm one of the few who stood under the German umbrella.....paid German taxes for some years.....German social security.....and felt the various pains like Germans.

So, this is my all-purpose commentary essay, designed for non-Germans mostly (and those Germans who accidentally discover it). I tend to put German culture into the spotlight of sarcasm, wit and humor. I'm simply pointing out the richness and craziness of life in Germany, which even some Germans can't understand.

The amusing thing is that I'm merely repeating the exercise that Mark Twain performed in 1880, when he published "A Tramp Abroad". Various comments were dished out on the Germans....which apparently did not trigger any wars, chaos, climate change, or ill feelings.

Final note: I generally only delete comments that are spam-related, or hype over pure Nationalist Socialist agendas. I generally won't support one-sided arguments/agendas. I also don't think accusations of racism or nationalism are generally proven, and can reflect poorly upon the person making the accusations.