Wolfgang;
Can you email me offline please. I tried to reply to your address but it
was rejected. My email just needs FLY removed.

John
"Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message
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Do you have any cite for this?

http://www.bundesarchiv.de/foxpublic...ittelinfo.html

This is a document detailing German regulations on those costs.

Nothing I can find nor anything I've
heard of before supports this. ( That West Germany paid for US
Military )

My claim is only about Allied troops in West Berlin until 1994,
and in West Germany until 1955. I don't know who paid for it
after 1955.


John

"Wolfgang Schwanke" wrote in message
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Jay Honeck wrote in
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They started building their welfare system in the late 19th/early
20th century. At that time they were still comparatively poor as
their economies were mostly agricultural. They got rich after WW2,
and used that money to massively expand their welfare systems. The
expansion stopped with the recessions in the 1990s and 2000s, so
did the tax rises. Their budgets are now at equilibrium, and the
economy is going strong once again.

The Western European welfare economies could only exist because they
lived under the umbrella of America's protection from the Soviet
Union.

Bollox. If it were true they'd have collapsed in 1990.

Not having to spend money on self-defense is a wonderful thing,
but don't count on it lasting for too many more "generations"

You may not be aware of this, but the European countries do have
their own military and they pay for it themselves. Did you also know
that the costs of the American military in West Berlin (where I live)
was payed by the West German government?

Regards

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