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Mass protests against cuts to social services in Germany (dpa-international.com)
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[โ€“] 50 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

Ahead of the event, Fahimi had criticized the coalition's "fundamental approach" as misguided in an interview. "Too little focus on growth and industrial policy, too many cuts to social services," said the DGB leader. The DGB wanted to "take the anger to the streets," she said.

Germany's employers accused the DGB of a "ritual refusal to reform."

"The trade unions say 'no' to almost every change," Steffen Kampeter, chief executive of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), told dpa. "They are dreaming of the world of yesterday."

Good. People shouldn't accept these concessions to capital.

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    • [+] -15 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

    That goes indeed in the wrong direction, despite the fact that social spending in Germany higher than in most countries. In other large economies like the U.S. and China, social welfare is much lower. Chinese leader Xi Jinping, for example, even decries welfare as he has said multiple times in the past, because, according to him, "makes people lazy."

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 20 hours ago (1 child)

    What should I care what some dictator thinks

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

    It has a consequence for the Chinese people. And as China is a major trading partner for the EU, we should rethink where we buy our stuff. When money goes to China, it goes to a regime that aims to protect itself and undermine social security here and there.

    [Edit typo.]

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