• AggressivelyPassive
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    401 year ago

    No, they actually do care about debt, but they decided to save money where Germany already has too little: social security for children and digitization.

    • @Pechente@feddit.de
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      151 year ago

      Yeah that digitization part upsets me. Everything in Germany is done by snail mail and lots of businesses don’t accept card payments. The fastest internet I can get in the middle of the city is DSL with 100 MBit/s.

      Germany is doing worse than most developing countries in this regard and few people here seem to bother.

      • RBG
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        131 year ago

        I know you probably did not mean it like that, but it is funny that between cutting social security for children and digitisation it is the digitisation that upsets you.

    • UnfortunateShort
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      11 year ago

      Just wanted to throw in that welfare is by far the biggest position in the German federal budget at 38% of total