Germans reject U.S. troops request

Those stubborn Germans! I live in Germany by the way. I know just how stubborn and mule headed they can be. I married one. Fact his, Germany has a troubled social welfare state to support, so they can't go running around plugging up holes where the American military can't. It's that simple.

Berlin has a military budget that most Germans would like to see reduced not increased. They view it as just one more straining factor on the government benefits and hand-outs that they have enjoyed for so long. Massive immigration from former east block nations, a costly move of the German capital from Bonn to Berlin, and the new military commitments, contributed to the strain on the Germans famed social paradise status.

Thanks to immigration, more people are living in Germany than ever before, and not all of them find jobs. That means they can't pay in to the social welfare pot, but instead, pull money out of it. Berlin can't blame all of its woes on immigration.

Poor money management has contributed to the welfare strain. I never did quite understand the grand and glorious move to Berlin, which had a price tag in the billions, when Germany was supposedly in the middle of a financial crises.

So , it stands to reason that Germany would balk at any new military expense demanded by the United States. Germany is looking out for number one, and as Ron Paul has suggested time and time again, perhaps the United States should be taking a similar tack. If the immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan and Iraq is too much for most of my fellow Americans living in the United States to to handle, then perhaps we should at least leave Germany. There's really no reason to be here. That whole, using Germany as a staging point is some bull shit excuse dreamed up by the Pentagon for keeping U.S. troops in Europe. Why should we continue pumping billions of dollars of the American taxpayer 's money into the German economy when we should be pumping it into our own!!!!!