German federal election 2009

[Martinus]

I'm picking up a Pat Boone vibe from Mr. Modified Hockey Doo.

This post is completely incomprehensible to me. :|

[Martinus]

LOL I checked who Pat Boone is. 

[ulmont]

Die Macher.

Something we should give a shot at some point.

Sure.  A German election game should be hilarious.

[Admiral Yi]

LOL I checked who Pat Boone is. 

Hockey do is what I think Yuros call a mullet.

[Viking]

Die Macher.

Something we should give a shot at some point.

Sure.  A German election game should be hilarious.

bloody wooden bricks...

[Martim Silva]

And, infortunatelty, nobody noticed the portuguese elections, which took place in the same day.

Our results were a bit different:

Winner:

Socialist Party (Socialist), with 36,56% of the vote

Raising their numbers in Parliament:

Left Block (Communist Trotskyte): 9,85%

PCP (Communist Stalinist): 7,88%

The right-wing lost, namely:

PPD/PSD (Social Democrat): 29,09%

But the extremist right made some progress  :

CDS-PP (Christian Democrat): 10,46%


The above parties got representation in Parliament. The sixth political force in the country (PCTP/MRPP - Old-Line Marxist) did not have enough votes (0,93%) to gain an MP.

The overall result was, as expected, a great win for the Left. 

Hugo Chávez has already sent his enthusiatic greetings, saying that he joins in the portuguese "socialist jubilation" and that "Socialism is the say"

http://dn.sapo.pt/Inicio/interior.aspx?content_id=1374324

(article in portuguese, sorry)

As for the Germans: are they clinically retarded? With the Economy on the verge of collapse because of the Liberals, they vote even MORE Liberal? 

Oh well, I expect that when Merkel spends all of Germany's money bailing out the banks and then hike the taxes on those that make less than a million per year then the Germans will be jumping of joy in the streets.

(they certainly will have no right to complain about how the banks robbed them blind, not after these elections...)

[Habbaku]

As for the Germans: are they clinically retarded? With the Economy on the verge of collapse because of the Liberals, they vote even MORE Liberal? 

Which Liberals were in power in Germany the last few years?  I count one Conservative and one Socialist party in the ranks of the governing coalition, but perhaps I have missed the Liberal puppet-masters?

[Zanza]

As for the Germans: are they clinically retarded? With the Economy on the verge of collapse because of the Liberals, they vote even MORE Liberal? 

Oh well, I expect that when Merkel spends all of Germany's money bailing out the banks and then hike the taxes on those that make less than a million per year then the Germans will be jumping of joy in the streets.

(they certainly will have no right to complain about how the banks robbed them blind, not after these elections...)

I guess we could always copy Portugal, have 80+% left-leaning parties and the shittiest economy of the old EU countries. Or maybe not.

[Admiral Yi]

I guess we could always copy Portugal, have 80+% left-leaning parties and the shittiest economy of the old EU countries. Or maybe not.

But like Moldava they suffered no serious economic downturn.

[Martim Silva]

Which Liberals were in power in Germany the last few years?  I count one Conservative and one Socialist party in the ranks of the governing coalition, but perhaps I have missed the Liberal puppet-masters?

Er... all the Governments?

The Economic problems of today don't have recent roots: they're the result of decades of little control over the financial system, with regulators often turning a blind eye to the banks' practices in the name of their beloved "Deregulation".

In Germany's case, it suffered from 16 years under the extreme right (CDU, under Kohl, together with FPD), then the right (SPD, Schröder) and then an extreme right/right-wing CDU/SPD grand coalition. They ALL worked under the banner of "Free Market" and worshipped "Deregulation".

I guess we could always copy Portugal, have 80+% left-leaning parties and the shittiest economy of the old EU countries. Or maybe not.

The only reason why Germany had a semblance of prosperity in the last decades is that it has an export-driven Economy and the US imported a heck of a lot more than it needed, as the Americans underwent a consumist binge, drunken by the easy credit given to then by Liberal bankers.

Now that the US will have to buckle up, it's "Auf Wiedersehen" to economic growth [the only one Germany has now is because the Government has spent a wad of cash to replace the lost global demand] and "Guten Tag" to Giant Debt Left Over by Banksters Who Wildy Leveraged Themselves in The Derivatives Market In Order To Get Giant Bonuses For Themselves.

Also, remember that, like it or not, Europe is run by a Portuguese - Durão Barroso, head of the European Comission.

(Though he is changed now, he claims to be a right-winger [social democrat]. To remember that in his younger days he even closed a newspaper down because it failed to properly honour Stalins' birthday... how things change)

[Sheilbh]

And, infortunatelty, nobody noticed the portuguese elections, which took place in the same day.

Which party is Mario Soares's?

[Valmy]

As for the Germans: are they clinically retarded? With the Economy on the verge of collapse because of the Liberals, they vote even MORE Liberal? 

Maybe they do not, like you, hold Cuba and Venezuela up as models the rest of the world should copy?

[Valmy]

The Economic problems of today don't have recent roots: they're the result of decades of little control over the financial system, with regulators often turning a blind eye to the banks' practices in the name of their beloved "Deregulation".

Simple explanations from a simplistic mind.

[Martim Silva]

Which party is Mario Soares's?

Mario Soares is an icon and founder of the Socialist Party.

Even though he started his career in the Communist Party, he went into exile in France in the days of the Fascist dictatorship and mellowed down. He returned in 1974 as a Socialist, more accurately a Menschevik.

[Jaron]

Why are we wasting time with Polanski when its Chavez we should be arresting?