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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