• albert180@feddit.de
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    Linder is not a smart guy, he also cut the Research and Higher Education budget by half a billion…

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      It’s just silly. In business class you learn that you need to account for inflation when assessing the value of money. Even without economic growth 8% inflation mean that our country’s debt shrinks by 8% if we don’t pay back a single euro. That’s about 200 billion euros of debt vaporized last year alone.

      Not accounting for inflation with the debt brake (Schuldrenbremse) was an incredibly dumb decision.

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        You learn that there are different kinds of dept aswell. Dept as investment isn’t bad. And most importent: a country isn’t a company. You can litterly print money! (Or at least the ECB) As long as the economy runs it doesn’t matter.

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    Neoliberals doing everything in their power to increase social and economic inequality.
    More news at 11.

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    I’m just mad that it isn’t that shit Schauble paying the political cost for this.

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    The thing they should be focusing on is the incredible inefficiency of the government. There are no consequences for doing nothing all day in a government job.

    Throwing out the people who don’t work and hiring a few who do would save a lot of money.

    But unfortunately it’s one giant pile of nepotism, so that won’t happen.