Alarming pet situation is expected in my country

[Kirsten]

Thanks everyone!

carole, I guess you're right and we're all are way too spoiled here. So far, nobody had to worry about his existence, even if you have lost your job! Now things are changing and of course this is scaring the people in this country.

You will still get a certain amount of money each month, but those who have have saved larger amounts of money (or have expensive cars, paintings or other riches) have to live on their savings now before they're getting any money paid.

I'm not affected by this, I am not rich, I only fear for my appartment; that I'll be forced to move to a tiny place and that I have to give up my girls because of that.

I agree that changes are necessary to a certain degree, but they are too drastic IMO. I would say it's okay if we had vacant jobs here and if people here would just be too lazy to work and prefer to rely on the state's payments instead. And of course there are some who handle it that way! But at this point, the majority of the unemployed people isn't working because there ARE NO JOBS. So I find it unfair that these people are punished now. It's not their fault that some things went wrong in this country.

Its unfortunate that they could not have seen that and made adjustments then.

Well, I guess it would have worked a while longer if there wasn't the reunion of the two German states in 1990. Please don't get me wrong; I don't have anything against the people of the former German Democratic Republic, but those areas were more or less a less-developed country and it required a lot of money to improve the infrastructure there, plus all the people there had never paid one cent into the health or unemployment insurances till 1990, but they're benefitting from it. Once again, I don't blame them, it's not their fault, and I don't know if there would have been another solution since I'm no politician, but of course everything got out of the balance then. And it's no surprise that these people are now disappointed. Many things have been promised to them, and now there are areas with more than 25% of the people unemployed.

Kirsten