This is so disgusting, so disappointing! Just when we thought the worst attacks from these awful American capitalist parasites were over...
HERE THEY COME AGAIN!!
From Handelsblatt, Germany's largest business daily: the U.S. investor Cerberus has acquired Baubecon, a German real estate company, which manages 50,000 apartments, of which it owns 20,000.
Can you imagine this scandal - the poor tennants of tens of thousands of apartments at the mercy of profit-minded American capitalists? I'm just so glad, we have IG Metall on our side, the largest trade union in the whole world! Remember IG Metall's courageous words against these American parasites: "Blackstone, KKR, Investcorp - finance investors from America are slaughtering German companies. They buy the companies, only to sell them a bit later for profit. The American investors don't show any consideration for people, regions or traditions. Like flies they suck the money out of companies, then swarm out, repeating the same pattern. People are the ones who suffer."
Now, Cerberus (which, according to Hoover's, is named after "a three-headed dog that guards the gates of hell") definitely fits into the company of "Blackstone, KKR, Investcorp"! No further proof needed here...
So, IG Metall - load the cannons! First, let's attack the treacherous German seller of Baubecon: BGAG.
BTW - who's BGAG? Ah well, let's not get into so many details... it's late anyway. I mean, why would you want to know that?
OK, you asked for it. The owners of BGAG, who sold out tens of thousands of low income tennants to American blood-sucking capitalists, are...
The German unions. (Sorry.)
Let me repeat this:
THE GERMAN UNIONS DGB, IG METALL AND VER.DI SOLD OUT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF LOW INCOME TENNANTS TO A TYPE OF BUYER THEY ONLY RECENTLY CALLED BLOOD-SUCKERS!
Of course, the supervisory board of Baubecon is full of trade union bosses...
You think you've seen it all? Well, it gets even worse. Or more hilarious, depending on your point of view.
Guess who is chairman of Cerberus? The chairman of Cerberus is...
Can you imagine - Dan Quayle, Vice President under President Bush sen., for years hated and ridiculed by the German left, now schmoozing with hard core German trade unionists, eventually convincing them to sell their dearest real estate piece to American locusts? This is beyond surreal!
George Orwell's Animal Farm comes to mind...
I can't resist the temptation to forecast IG Metall's monthly magazine's next cover (which, appropriately, would be the cover for the Christmas issue):
"Doing Business with American Locusts: It Works!"
Quayle was Vice President under Bush, 41, not Reagan.
(Note from David: Thanks, Pamela. Corrected it.)
But I'm here to tell you guys that you're safe. Quayle couldn't suck his own toes without screwing it up let alone German blood.
His wife, however, is another matter.
Posted by: Pamela | November 14, 2005 at 07:21 PM
oh yeah his wife.. what a rhymes with which she is..
Posted by: amiexpat | November 14, 2005 at 07:27 PM
I propose that Germans buy nothing from Americans and Americans buy nothing from Germans. Perhaps Germans then will be less morose.
Posted by: PacRim Jim | November 14, 2005 at 10:54 PM
Gee. Maybe the Americans won't be as discriminating as their German counterparts!
Posted by: James | November 15, 2005 at 01:10 AM
Clifford D. May is so right:
"No debating their hatred: Some just see U.S., Israel as focus of all that’s evil
By Clifford D. May
Monday, November 14, 2005
We had gathered at the venerable University Philosophical Society of Trinity College in Dublin to debate the resolution: “This house believes that George W. Bush is a danger to world stability.”
... Finally, Bird noted that next week the Society would debate whether militant Islamism is a legitimate form of resistance to American hegemony. While I’ll be sorry to miss that event, I have a hunch how it will turn out."
Read it here
Posted by: Gabi | November 15, 2005 at 07:53 AM
Typical. Do as I say, not as I do.
Business as usual, I see.
Posted by: Scott_H | November 15, 2005 at 02:53 PM
OT via Cap't Ed, you have GOT to be kidding me:
When competing coalitions join together in a parliamentary system to form an executive, they necessarily jettison parts of the two platforms in order to form a single policy plan that can get support from most of the members of all factions. Usually this means getting rid of the more innovative notions and sticking with less controversial ideas. Unfortunately, the new German government led by Angela Merkel wants to provide the exception that tests the rule. As the London Times reports, the Germans now will attempt to spend their way out of a deficit by taxing their way to economic growth -- a daring plan, given its remarkable failure every time it's been tried in the past:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005793.php
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Burger King is paying a $6000 signing bonus to flip burgers in New Orleans. There's worse things than asking if you want fries w/that. And they're looking for people to clean up the muck and it pays a good wage. If you're young, single, no responsibilities, what's a couple of years of lean living to fatten your bank account?
Posted by: grlzjustwant2havefun | November 15, 2005 at 05:07 PM
Super example of what Zyme had been talking about all this time.
Germany will walk away from any principle as long as it can make a Dmark now a euro.
Why would this surprise anyone? It is just the Germany Way that the dearly departed Gerhard spoke so strongly about.
You surely will not find this in M$M as it is not part of the Left's template.
Posted by: joe | November 16, 2005 at 01:28 AM
Pamela: "But I'm here to tell you guys that you're safe. Quayle couldn't suck his own toes without screwing it up let alone German blood."
Unfortunately, this canard is still around. Quayle's reputation for stupidity was a deliberate hatchet job by the US news media.
Posted by: LC Mamapajamas | November 16, 2005 at 04:34 AM
Mamapajamas
>> Quayle's reputation for stupidity was a deliberate hatchet job by the US news media.
To a point I agree. The media portrayed him as stupid for the wrong reasons.
I've met the man. He's a good person. But he is stupid.
Marilyn I am somewhat in awe of, if for no other reason than the woman's poise and dignity in the face of media that was unreasonably cruel.
I would have started throwing grenades.
Posted by: Pamela | November 17, 2005 at 12:28 AM
Well actually things might be worse than most of realized.
Hooters is openning this week in DE.
Posted by: joe | November 19, 2005 at 02:30 AM