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In reply to the discussion: Report: Obama's campaign more wired than Romney's [View all]DFW
(60,045 posts)39. Most Germans would dispute that
But they do have a system where workers are on perpetual 6 month "trial" periods so that their employers can ditch them with no questions asked if either economics or personalities don't play out. My wife, as a German social worker, would laugh at a suggestion of a 5.4% unemployment rate. She would have been twiddling her thumbs had that been anywhere near the case. Instead, she worked ten hours a day (area of work--placing unemployed back into the workforce or into retraining) in a job that only paid her for five.
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Except for the anti equality and anti Choice 'State's Right's' bullshit...
Bluenorthwest
Aug 2012
#14
I admire your your change of heart and expecially the reasons for it are why 90% of democrats
demosincebirth
Aug 2012
#21
Cut, paste, and send to newspapers and blogs (especially those that lean conservative)
GoddessOfGuinness
Aug 2012
#33
Welcome to DU. I put your comments on my Facebook page and gave you the credit.
emsimon33
Aug 2012
#42
You sound just like Mittens. Deflecting the message to "who is Harry Reid's source"
Ruby the Liberal
Aug 2012
#57
I agree. And I hope that under the radar the Obama campaign is making and keeping
nanabugg
Aug 2012
#12