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Old 05-30-11, 10:19 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
That is typical American binary thinking again, black-white-painting. Either we are a superprower, or we are a wellfare state. No in between. It is stupid to think like this.
Typical American binary thinking?

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Originally Posted by Some German guy in another thread

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Germany has just decided to fully pull out of nuclear energy within the next ten years.

What nobody says today is: the Shroeder government before merkel also had ruled that. Then came the CDU to power and opened the deal again, fully trusting into nuclear power. Then came Fzuskushima, and what many people do not understand is that us Germans have suffered much much dearer from Fukushima than those Japanese: we immediatly felt so much Angst that now Merkel opportunistically U-turned again and set course for leaving nuclear energy behind.
Folks who throw stones ought not to live in glass houses!
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