This is the CONSERVATIVE German Chancellor:
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Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has launched a searing attack on top-earning managers. “Just because an American car executive makes a thousand times what an employee earns, it seems a German car manager should also get the kind of rise he would never grant his workers,” she said.
In Germany this is how conservatives talk.
I understand the labels “liberal” and “conservative” don’t mean the same things in Europe that they do here. But even so – that’s an extraordinary statement, and makes me think again that someday, my future may lie elsewhere….
If I were younger or had some specialized skill I would go to New Zealand. Germans speak German and their country is too cold. Canadians speak English, or at least most of them, but their weather is atrocious.
I’m trying to imagine our conservative ‘dear leader’ saying that…bwahahaha.
Apparently conservative policies only apply to the wages of the bottom 98% here (keep ’em low!), while the top 2% are exempt (sky’s the limit!).