Now Germany seems determined to use economic power to rule Europe. The German economy is doing well. But Germany expects the smaller, less developed counties in the Euro zone to institute severe austerity measures. Never mind that these austerity measures are harming the citizens of these smaller counties.
Economists are frantically telling Germany that their policy is likely to damage the entire world wide economy.
It is important to remember that the Nazis took over Germany during a period of out of control inflation. People told stories of using a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread.
Huge economic changes can make people into a kind of insane mob. I hope Germany is not planning on using this kind of mob insanity to do what they could not do with military power.
The citizens of the smaller countries need to realize that one of the reasons that they are in this mess is that they make a game out of not paying their taxes. Of course, here in America we have Amazon as an example of how to use a government funded resource to make huge sums of money and not pay sales tax. (They are now trying to get small California towns to waive the sales tax in return for putting a warehouse in that town.)
Countries, corporations, and people all have to make moral choices. Making choices based only on money will cause more problems than it solves.
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