(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
it was probably sarcasm)
Posted on 03/29/2005 11:19:50 AM PST by lizol
GERMANS ‘MISS’ BERLIN WALL 29.3.2005. 13:46:22
Almost 15 years after German re-unification, one in four western Germans wishes the Wall was still standing, a poll has shown.
The survey, carried out by Berlin's Freie Universität and Forsa polling institute, showed that 24 percent of western Germans would rather have their country divided into separate East and West German states.
Only 12 percent of eastern Germans said it would be better if the country was still divided.
Only 11 percent of respondents in western Berlin wanted the Wall back, and 8 percent of those in the eastern part of the city did.
Oh my. I suppose if you poll enough people you'll get all kinds of results.
It's a little early for April fools . . .
If they really miss it, there's a big hunk of it in Simi Valley that they could visit.
How many Americans want a wall on the Mexican border? The point of the article is not to imply that anyone wants the Communists back. It is a reflection of the two classes of Germans based on where they come from. It is going to take several generations for the "Wall of the Mind" to go away in Germany.
I thought this thread was going to have pictures of the Miss Berlin Wall beauty pageant.
"Only 12 percent of eastern Germans said it would be better if the country was still divided.
Only 11 percent of respondents in western Berlin wanted the Wall back, and 8 percent of those in the eastern part of the city did."
So the people most directly affected by it don't want it. Ok then.
"Only 12 percent of eastern Germans said it would be better if the country was still divided.
Only 11 percent of respondents in western Berlin wanted the Wall back, and 8 percent of those in the eastern part of the city did."
So the people most directly affected by it don't want it back. Ok then.
It is simply a matter of West German taxpayers hating to have to subsidize the Eastern enclave which needs new bridges, roads, hospitals, sewer treatment facilities, telephone switching systems, jobs, etc.
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
And, don't forget, the percentage is only 25%. Give me a slice of America and I could find 15-25% who think Elvis is alive.
How many Germans miss Baywatch?
The only intersting thing here is that some idiot thought this might be newsworthy. Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Idi Amin are missed by some folks. For that matter, so's Clinton.
My brother has lived in Germany since 1977. From my conversations with him, I think that the conventional wisdom in the former West Germany is that the country's abysmal economic straits are due not to the failure of the socialist statist model, but from having to absorb the povery stricken East Germans.
I think most western Germans believe that to be the case, and think they would have been much better off economically if east Germany had remained its own country.
About as many as those who are today wearing mustard colored ties with Marron sports jackets and plaid socks. (:
About as many as are waiting in anticipation for the next Bon Jovi tour. And that is quite a few.
Sad, isn't it?
I imagine most of the Germans that were separated by the Wall originally are dying off....and the younger generations have different political views.
Sure, but the stats for those from the east or Berlin who want the wall is far less, and those are the people whose lives were impacted most directly by the wall. Those whose freedoms were curtailed or who had to physically see it in their city don't so much remember it fondly or think that reunification cost too much.
And 48% of voters in the US voted for a lying, traitorous liberal. That's the amazing and saddening statistic.
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