Ever since the unification of Germany in 1870, the Germans have enjoyed a steady move up in their standard of living.  For decades Germany has been the economic engine that has driven Europe to greater wealth and a lifestyle that is envied by many in the world.  That economy has provided the German people with a welfare state that seemed to know no limits.

Welfare states, however, depend on a common consensus as to values and acceptable activity; each member of the society fulfills their function through work and obedience of the laws and societal norms.  The inclusion of millions of individuals who do not accept those norms, who are a cost not a benefit to the state upsets the smooth running of the state and creates friction which is outside the ability of the average citizen to correct.  Germany faces a challenge to its very existence from a large number of immigrants whose very value system is diametrically opposite to that of the German state.

Additionally, Germany faces an economic power that has learned quite a bit from the German model and who has the finances, education and will to challenge Germany.  That economic power is Communist China.  For decades China has studied, copied, and committed crimes against the intellectual property of Germany (and other states) and suddenly the student is rising up against the teacher as China begins to strike at the very basis of German strength.

The attached interview and overview of the problems Germany faces, economically and politically should be viewed at a minimum by every German.  It should be viewed by every citizen of the Western World as Germany’s problems and challenges are the same faced by every other Western state. 

Can Germany rise to the challenge or has the will of the German people been stifled by decades of easy living.  We can only hope.