1. I sat and read through a NIUS story this AM....thinking it was a joke. Searched around....well....no, facts are facts. So the story.
10,000 inmates in Bavaria's (the state) prisons....so more than half of them aren't Germans.
This fact? It comes from a response by the Bavarian Ministry of Justice to a parliamentary inquiry from AfD members of parliament.
You can do the numbers....amounts to several hundred million in operations/support cost or the state prison system.
The odds that the remaining 15 states also have the issue brewing? Well....no one says much, but you have to wonder about that detail.
2. The designated 'new' Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, Sven Schulze, has advocated for requiring welfare recipients to perform social service . "People who receive benefits from the state should provide something in return, up to and including community service."
Legal? It'll be challenged.
The thing about this....if you ask a thousand working-class Germans about this....more than three-quarters fully support the idea, and probably another 10-percent want some type of 'duty' (maybe just 8 hours a week).
Who would run this? Unknown. You'd have to recruit in a city of 200,000....at least forty managers to keep it functional, and where would this money come from?
3. End of next week....weather guys say a harsh dry 'front' comes through Germany....day-time temperatures back down to minus-5 C (23 F) for probably three weeks (no snow).
My impression of the impending natural gas shortage? The current reserves nationally....near 50-percent. So if true....this 3-week period will likely bring the reserves down to the 25-percent point. Hopefully, that's it for winter.....if anything else arrives...the gov't likely puts everyone on limited use of natural gas.
4. National crisis brewing in Germany....driving-schools are saying no one has money for classes.....job-cuts are coming in the next couple of months.
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