WHAT THE WINGERS WON'T TELL YOU ABOUT GERMANY

They are currently pointing to Germany as an economic model for the US because the rubes don't know that Germany has a much larger welfare state than the U.S.:

A generous social welfare system provides for universal medical care, unemployment compensation, and other social needs.

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Reforms launched by the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (1998-2005), deemed necessary to address chronically high unemployment and low average growth, contributed to strong growth in 2006 and 2007 and falling unemployment, which in 2008 reached a new post-reunification low of 7.8%. These advances, as well as a government-subsidized, reduced working hour scheme, helped account for the relatively modest increase in unemployment during Germany's 2008-2009 recession--the deepest since World War II.