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yes, but Germany has had re-unification costs and an ageing population to contend with.

• anamax 18y ago
  The East Germans were incredibly well educated. Yes, their physical infrastructure was far behind West Germany's, but reunification should have been profitable almost from the beginning. Reunification should have been like the end of WWII but with less damage and more and better help.
  • tjic 18y ago
    > The East Germans were incredibly well educated. A deep education according to Marxist principles that explain all economic growth as being the result of central planning, and all problems as being the result of competition is worse than no education at all. For evidence of this, look at Eastern Europe. ...or the humanities department at any Ivy League college.
    • anamax 18y ago
      Their engineers were first rate and the vast majority knew that the "evil west" was doing better. Yes, intellectuals are especially resistant to existence proofs, but East Germans weren't majority intellectual. > For evidence of this, look at Eastern Europe. Poland? Even Romania seems to have figured it out. Yes, there are reactionary communists, but they're losing most places. (Yes, they are winning in some places.)