Why are Germans so poor?

>>509017341 (OP)

>>509017341 (OP)
Zero-sum approach to international trade deliberately suppressing consumption. Far worse than China actually.

Normal cycle goes thus: I buy your stuff, you get richer, your currency strengthens, you can now buy more of my stuff, equilibrium is established.

Germany imported Euro weakness from the PIGS (who they should really have compensated for it rather than lectured) and the government also suppressed consumption.

One of the disappointments was I had hoped based on what he was saying Trump would hold their feet to the fire but he is so confused it gets lost his random lashing out at every country in the world. Another missed opportunity.

>>509020543
Incidentally, this is how Germany can instantly quadruple its defence spending overnight without sweating. It had the money all along.
Living well within your means is generally a virtue but in the globalised trade its simply "beggar they neighbour". Nobody even in Europe had the slightest sympathy for the travails of the Volkswagen group of late.

>>509017341 (OP)
Why is our flag backwards?

>>509021120
nation is in crisis

>>509021120
stop being transflagphobic