In the frantic race to the bottom in the US, lower wages, no health care or very expensive health care, cuts in Social Security and Medicare, attacks on unions Germany proves the US is on the wrong path.
With strong unions, with universal health care, with strong green economy, social security and unemployment benefits, with strong public education system, Germany is thriving with its exports surging and a big trade surplus.
The US tanks with attacks on unions, no universal health care, weak green economy, cuts to social security and unemployment, cuts to public education. The US has massive trade deficits and rising unemployment and the wrong jobs.
The secret to Germany's export success. German imports were up 3.1 percent on the month in March at €79.4 billion — also a new monthly record, the statistical office said. In year-on-year terms, imports rose 16.9 percent. The trade surplus stood at €18.9 billion in March, up from €11.9 billion in February.
So in Germany, it is not held back by universal health care, not held back by social security and medicare, not held back by subsidies to green economies, not held back by unions on strong public education system.
What Germany does not have have is a health care system that fails to provide for 20% of its citizens and sucks 20% of the countries GDP like the US has. It does not have a $1.4T military budget or overseas wars to support like the US.
And Germany has...horror of horrors...a reasonable tax on income, higher than the US where low taxes (the lowest in 60 years) along with the out of control military spending have bankrupted the nation.
The German economy proves the right wing GOP (and the Obama Democrats) are wrong on health care, wrong on unions, wrong on public education, wrong on taxes, wrong on social security, wrong on investment in a green economy.