Ex-GDR (was:Re: RES: a trip to North Korea)

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Tue Apr 25 02:53:58 PDT 2000


In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1000424140819.538980608B- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes
>On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Johannes Schneider wrote:
>
>> that moved to the East as well ... There are areas where living
>> standards in the East have detioarated certainly: E.g. the comprehensive
>> child-care systen has been destroyed completely, with all consequences
>> this has for working families. Women are forced out of the production
>> process. Prices for housing and transportation have exploded.

Oh come on. The 'comprehensive child care policy' was a cheap-skate daytime orphanage to overcome the GDR's chronic labour-shortage. Next you'll be praising Rumania's progressive abortion-as-contraception policy. -- Jim heartfield



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