[cc-community] German Federal State announces economic stimulus package aimed at IT industry and at enriching Public Domain

Kristian Rink kristian at zimmer428.net
Wed Apr 1 07:00:52 EDT 2009


Am Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:34:05 +0200
schrieb "Ulrike Elteste (Mahlmann)" <Ulrike.Mahlmann at gmx.de>:

[...]
> on the Internet. The government strongly encourages the holders of
> the repositories to hire people from among the unemployed to
> contribute to this very labour-intensive work. ---- 
> 
> I’m so sorry, but I’m from Continental Europe and so this is only an
> April Fool’s Day joke. 

But quite a good one compared to others I have stumbled upon so far
today. Anyway, just one thing on that:


> Who says that the money from the economic stimulus packages must be
> spent on economically pointless sales promotion activities like the
> idiotic German “break-up-your-old-car-and-buy-a-new-one subsidy”? 

Problem being however that, so far, people still aren't up for this,
and politicians obviously have to cater for a (dumb? blind? ignorant?)
majority, proving immediate action and responses rather than well
thought-out conceptions or even strategies (after all, there are some
elections in Germany in 2009 and any strategy approach surely won't pay
off anymore before that). Of course it is annoying... of course one
again and again gets upset seeing loads and loads of money stuffed down
the throats of an old industry, seeing money and effort spent on saving
large companies while quietly accepting smaller ones ceasing away,
spending no second thought on whether or how we eventually could do
with a more sustainable, more future-proof approach to actually
creating a new, more stable economy rather than keeping up old
structures at any (and, in this case, it really seems "any") costs.
However it seems that a majority of peple neither seems to care or even
to know about this - as long as the car industry survives... Oh well. :(

K.


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