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  • #46
    Another reason for is that there's lots of hot girls in Berlin. At least when I was in there, a lot of them. Really nice girls. Yes. Also, there's lots of xtc in Berlin, so these chicks are really nice. They want to be touching you and you want to be touching them.

    Also, good club scene compared to other places, in Europe it's usually pretty good but in Berlin, it's top tier.
    In da butt.
    "Do not worry if others do not understand you. Instead worry if you do not understand others." - Confucius
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    • #47
      Originally posted by DanS
      Schroeder was given ample opportunity to explain it away and to climb down from the remarks. He and his government declined.
      Wrong, Schroeder wrote Bush a letter about it, which was also covered in the media.
      Blah

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      • #48
        Originally posted by Sir Ralph
        I give you a hint, even though I'm lazy to look up links, and if I find them they'd be most likely in German. Pretty much all independent experts (economical institutes etc.) are in agreement, that the current government has very little to do with the economical boom. There have been quite some articles about this throughout the last year. And pretty much all of them give a portion (not the whole) of the credit to Schröder's reforms.
        They can give the credit to whom they wish. I can only point to the fact that once Schroeder et al. packed their bags, business sentiment began to improve.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #49
          Originally posted by BeBro
          Wrong, Schroeder wrote Bush a letter about it, which was also covered in the media.
          That letter was covered over here too. It wasn't an apology and wasn't perceived as such.

          A personal apology would have taken all of a minute of Schroeder's time. But apparently he couldn't spare it.
          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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          • #50
            That letter was covered over here too. It wasn't an apology and wasn't perceived as such.
            Too bad you guys misunderstood it
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            • #51
              Originally posted by DanS
              They can give the credit to whom they wish. I can only point to the fact that once Schroeder et al. packed their bags, business sentiment began to improve.
              Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.

              If that's all you can come up with, you failed to convince me.

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              • #52
                Originally posted by BeBro
                Too bad you guys misunderstood it
                I don't think we did misunderstand it.
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #53
                  Originally posted by Sir Ralph
                  you failed to convince me.
                  This doesn't concern me.
                  I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                  • #54
                    Originally posted by Ecthy
                    Do you honestly belief this has anything to do with government policies?

                    I thought the old myth of government influence on the general economy as long dead.
                    Government policies sure do have an effect on the economy. There has been a slight liberalization of German work laws and a slight decrease in the burden employers must carry so you've seen a slight improvement in the German economy. It's pretty much a direct connection combined with the recent increase in exports.
                    Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                    • #55
                      Originally posted by DanS


                      I don't think we did misunderstand it.
                      I can't help you guys then
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                      • #56
                        Originally posted by BeBro
                        Schroeder showed leadership by doing reforms highly unpopular (reforms which btw even todays CDU politicians don't question fundamentally). You just don't like him because of his Iraq pov.
                        Totally agree with Bebro here.
                        Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                        • #57
                          Originally posted by DanS
                          This doesn't concern me.
                          Pity you prefer trolling to a serious discussion. Unsurprising, however.

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                          • #58
                            West German GDP: €29,000
                            East German GDP: €20,000

                            German GDP: €27,000

                            This is nominal

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                            • #59
                              Don't you mean per capita income and not GDP?
                              Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.

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                              • #60
                                Originally posted by Oerdin


                                Government policies sure do have an effect on the economy. There has been a slight liberalization of German work laws and a slight decrease in the burden employers must carry so you've seen a slight improvement in the German economy. It's pretty much a direct connection combined with the recent increase in exports.
                                What they mean I think is Merkel has ruled for a too short time, for her to be the reason for the improved german economy, that deep down it is due to Schroeders reforms

                                I dont see why Dans laughs, republicans used to say the boyant economy during Clintons periods was due to Reagan´s reforms (it seems they often forget Bush 1 was president in between) now the same is being said regarding merkel and schroeder
                                Last edited by Barnabas; May 31, 2007, 10:42.
                                I need a foot massage

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