>On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> So have all those things people have said about the Greens representing a
>> petit bourgeois/upper middle class milieu turned out to be true?
>
>Not in the slightest. Occasionally Green spokespeople like to provoke the
>press is all.
Dennis, you are defending a lost cause. According to you all what the Greens
are doing is just a provocation of the press. In my eyes its a provocation
of the left-wingers who still put any hopes in them. Lets only look at the
course of events of this week:
Monday: Christine Scheel calls for a corporate tax rate of 23%. (Instead of
40%).
Tuesday: A group of Green MPs are calling for even more tax reductions for
business. Arguing that the Greens may not be the 'left' wing of government,
thus saying they should be the right wing.
Wednesday: Trittin argues the position of the Greens is right between the
SPD and the CDU. Actually a lot of Greens have argued like that before, but
they all came from the right wing of the party. Now even the left-winger
Trittin is saying so!
If you will check the websites of the German papers you will find out that
the Greens now are at the right of the SPD.
When it comes to the tax reductions you forget to mention, that the prices
for energy are going to rise considerably on April first. As a result prices
for public transport will rise as well making the usage of it even more
unattractive. Its hilarious calling such a tax rise 'ecological'
Johannes