Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Miraculous recovery

In what was up until recently thought to be purely impossible for German teachers to achieve, numbers now indicate that the cases of Dienstunfähigkeit (disability for service - not to be confused with inability of service - really early retirement, in other words) for German teaching mandarin-type class profession professionals has dropped considerably and that the majority of German teachers actually makes it now all the way to the age of 63 before taking your every day regular run-of-the-mill early retirement then.



Many experts who do not wish to be named believe that this miraculous recovery is directly attributable to an increased number of visits by German teachers to Lourdes in recent years but nobody wants to say where they got these numbers or even what these numbers might be. Others believe that German teachers have come to understand that they have an obligation to the society in which they live and that they should give at least the minimum if not more than that which is demanded of them in order to make the world a better and more wonderful place to live, uh, in.

Needless to say, both of these ridiculous theories are being scoffed at by other more expert-type experts who are convinced that they know the real reason why: Ever since the German government decided not to pay out the full retirement benefits for Dienstunfähigkeit retirement, German teachers suddenly and miraculously decided that “hey, disability ain’t so bad after all.”

Disability, datability. You gotta do somethin’, you know?

Kommentare auf Deutsch? Logisch.


PS: Thanks for the Wirtschafswunder, aging and Europaskeptic links, jRm.
Posted by clarsonimus at 08:06:00 | Permanent Link | Comments (16) |
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1 - The German economic wonder (Wirtschaftswunder) is testimony to the superiority of the German economic model over the American. With only 1/4 th of the American population, the German model has proven so successful that Germans are emigrating to the States in increasing numbers to buy up America, and those Americans that do move to Germany are so jealous that they devote entire blogs to this phenomena alone!
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Written by: EuroYank at 2008/02/06 - 10:02:29
2 - EuroYank,you may be on to something. It clearly doesn't get any better than this. <;-) (Comment this)

Written by: clarsonimus at 2008/02/06 - 11:20:24
3 - OMG, OMG I can see! I can see! Uh, nevermind! (Comment this)

Written by: Pat Patterson at 2008/02/06 - 21:09:36
4 - And here all this time I thought Germans were emigrating to the US to avoid an unemployment rate double that of the US(10.1% vs. 4.9%). Plus more than 1/4 of the population of the US and producing 1/5 the GDP seems like something is amiss. (Comment this)

Written by: Pat Patterson at 2008/02/06 - 23:39:36
5 - Pat Robertson you always were a *#?1"#! and a propagandist for your fascist republican Grow the USA by attacking small 3rd world countries BS! (Comment this)

Written by: EuroYank at 2008/02/07 - 01:51:16
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