Schröder Under Attack for Remarks

[CHIMO]

German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has come under fire for saying that German corporate heads are failing to create new jobs in spite of business-friendly reforms initiated by his government.

Christine Scheel, finance policy expert of Schröder's junior coalition partners in the government, the Greens, said the chancellor should match his words with deeds now. It can no longer be tolerated she said that German companies, for example, can even write off against taxes the costs associated with moving jobs abroad.

"I don't think that such behavior is alright," she said. "It's become a really big problem that companies have moved jobs abroad. The fact that this is even fostered by tax write-offs is something no-one can understand."

Schröder, who used to be dubbed "Darling of the Bosses," now feels let down and betrayed by corporate leaders: A recent survey of the top 30 German corporations reveals that they eliminated a total of 35,000 jobs in Germany last year alone. At the same time more than 9,000 jobs have been created at their foreign subsidiaries.


http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1534424,00.html

Sounds familiar.

[UpInArms]

1. at least Schroeder has the ability

to sound surprised - maybe he will change his way :shrug:

[solinvictus]

2. Outsourcing in Germany..

Wow! Of course, the quality labor in Mexico made the Jetta the reliable car that it is. ;)

[gratuitous]

3. Pointing out the truth upsets our corporate overlords

Better to just shut up and accept the crumbs off their tables with trembling and gratitude, I guess.

[James T. Kirk]

4. Schroder: What a loser!

He is running the economy into the ground! They recently announced that he has more people unemployed than any time since World War 2. He is even worse than Hitler in that respect! Ah, but it is not his fault, of course! The German people and the businessmen could not live up to his bold vision!
:eyes: