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Joachim Gauck used his first speech as German President on Friday morning to call for the country to “dare to have more Europe” in times of crisis, and for determination in facing down extremists.
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He was 5 when the war ended .
"...five countries chained together in huge debt..." compared to... Oh! How short memories can be.
Neo nazism has many similarities with the original nazis, HOWEVER, they differ in that the germany of today is being overwhelmed by foreigners, eroding german culture, language and fatherland. Which german can honestly tell me that in 20 years from now when they call Deutsche Telekom for help that an automated voice will tell them , press 1 for german, press 2 for turkish.
Neo nazis are here for a reason, and they dont like whats happening in germany. Why should germany become like the USA or London UK? Im happy with what germany was like 50 years ago: less/limited foreigners, strong economy. I dont like whats happening in my country.
Oh, and by the way, 50 years ago Germany's strong economy was being propped up by direct investment from the US and UK....foreigners.
you often seem to miss many things. How do you think you will have strong economies and less foreigners. When you say no foreigners and then foreign countries say no German products. Where is the strong economy then. People need a car not always a German car. Similarly people need planes and not always a US plane. Germany needs tourist from other countries and other countries needs German tourists too. In today's world no country can produce everything it needs and consume everything they produce. We all need each other.
You need to buy from others, others need to buy from you. Otherwise you wont have jobs to give to nazi unemployed and non nazi unemployed alike. Thats the way it works.
if you say foreigners create neo nazies. Why you cant react in other ways than nazi ways. Reacting violently to foreigners is not the solution and blocking off foreigners is also not the perfect solution.
Solution is in deciding the factors to be verified before giving citizenship. And don't think that all foreigners in Germany are citizens or eating our social security or taking away some job which could have been gone to similarly skilled German. I am not German.
Some of them are tourist, some work here only for a few years(experts in specific fields, they contribute to your social security and leave without taking a dime, they pay taxes too), some have citizenship(if you have problem with these type of people do debate ti with your government rather than attacking all foreigner as if all of them are here to take something away from Germany. As i mentioned in another reply to you the language is not always easy to learn to everyone. You need technically skilled guys and the skills you need to learn technology is not the one you need for language, it varies from person to person. SO just because a few of them speak English or any other language you cant consider them as forcefully rejecting Deutsche from their heart. They may have tried and failed or just slowly improving. How can you klaus decide these things with colour of the people or the language you hear from their mouth.
What is wrong with that? It's just missing - press 3 for English, press 4 for French, still some other languages, perhaps.
"Neo nazis are here for a reason, and they dont like whats happening in germany."
What is the reason and what is happen in Germany what they don't like, please tell us. And why don't they like it?
"If we had more jobs for unemployed GERMANS, we would have less nazis."
I think that that is wrong. More jobs for unemployed Germans wil not change anything. Right now they may try to give the impression that they care about a part (you can be black or brown and still be German but that are not the people they consider to be German) of the Germans but I think that it's about that they want to form the socitey according their picture. First it's against people who's skin have another color or those who don't speak well German, then it goes on to be against gays, those who still have an own opinion and so on until we are back to the times where people believed that every red haired woman is a witch. No, not with me.