Sunday, October 16, 2022

Preaching To The Audience

 For the next couple of days, I'm going on harp on 'problems' and 'solutions'.....which you see a lot of examples of this.....on the German news networks, and it's to the level that it feels like 5th grade kids trying to resolve a national crisis.

A good quote here, by Martin Luther King: 

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

Around twenty years ago in Germany....the Bundestag decided that welfare was crapped-out and going to become a national budget crisis.....so they invented 'Hartz IV'.....which was a reformed welfare program....which was going to fix everything.

In various ways, it simply led to the next problem.....that welfare was a 'doom-and-gloom' mess and probably 20-percent of the German public was going to deal with a even bigger mess than what existed prior to 2000.  

We progress now to the newest gimmick....Citizens Money (Burgergeld).  Same type situation....maybe a little more cash, and ease of proof that you are doing bad-offf. 

Covid?  Same way.  This natural gas crisis?  Same issue.  Electrical blackout crisis?  Same way. 

It's almost nightly now that you feel a problem coming up, and the resolution will merely lead onto a newer version of the problem....maybe next year....maybe in three years.  

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