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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
Women should not run countries. Look what Merkel did to Germany...
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i was curious, so googled and came up with this:
How Angela Merkel Has Led Germany to New Prominence | Vanity Fair
that said something else interesting:
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Merkel has the added advantage that her predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, instituted a number of unpopular structural reforms of the welfare state—giving management more leeway in laying off employees and streamlining various government benefits—that probably cost Schröder the 2005 election that saw Merkel come to power.
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Which is curious, as isn't that what all the riots in France are about currently? however i think the french government voted these reforms down, and then president and co just executive-actioned the law into existence
