Forty-three Percent of Germans Don't Trust the U.S. Government
In a 2014 poll, 13% of Americans say the government can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time, and 17% of Americans believe that big business can be trusted to do what is right always or most of the time. We should swap those two groups for the 43% of Germans who know the truth that the U.S. government is corrupt and is in collusion with big business and high finance, and then maybe we can vote out the politicians who kowtow to the statists and elitists who run America.Thousands in Germany protest against Europe-U.S. trade deal
April 18, 2015Reuters - Thousands of people marched in Berlin, Munich and other German cities on Saturday in protest against a planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they fear will erode food, labor and environmental standards.
A recent YouGov poll showed that 43 percent of Germans believe TTIP would be bad for the country, compared to 26 percent who see it as positive.
The level of resistance has taken Chancellor Angela Merkel's government and German industry by surprise, and they are now scrambling to reverse the tide and save a deal which proponents say could add $100 billion in annual economic output on both sides of the Atlantic.
In Berlin, a crowd estimated by police at 1,500 formed a human chain winding from the Potsdamer Platz square, past the U.S. embassy and through the Brandenburg Gate to offices of the European Commission.
In Munich, police put the crowd at 3,000, while organizers Attac estimated it at 15,000. Hundreds also marched in Leipzig, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and other European cities on what Attac hailed as a "global day of action" against free trade, though the protests appeared to be largest in Germany.
Helmut Edelhauesser, a 52-year-old from Brandenburg, said he would prefer a free trade deal with Russia."I think this deal will open the door to genetically-modified foods here," said Jennifer Ruffatto, 28, who works with handicapped people and was pushing her baby in a stroller. "Companies will gain from this at the expense of people."
"The U.S. push for world domination is unacceptable," he told Reuters. "Obama sends out drones to kill people and wins the Nobel peace prize. This has to stop."
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