I used to live in a city that had a large British base which got shut down during that time. The local media was full of stories of how that would negatively effect the economy and such, but overall it barely made a dent, and not having these drunk soildiers causing trouble every weekend sure was an advantage 🤷
Before Trump, it was pretty obviously meant to protect against Russia as well as part of Germany’s integration into NATO - and the majority of Germans were more than fine with it.
The disconnect is you’re talking about how it effects the people who live there…
Back in the day, a base would beef up local small businesses, who had to hire substantially more employees, who then spent their wages in town. Now it just means your chain stores take a profit cut. Not many people lose jobs, because there’s not that many to lose. The few who do, didn’t have much disposable income to spread around anyways
When the local media complains about it hurting an area, they’re talking about GDP level stuff. That just doesn’t really affect people’s day today lives, especially in the short term or if there’s corruption that was easting up those funds.
But all over, these a disconnect because billionaires syphon off as much as they can. So things that used to put money in local communities, just don’t anymore. So places need to re-evalute if they still have a benefit
The US military employees something like 12,000 German civilians directly. You will need new jobs for them. The US soldiers also spend some money in the local economy. So we are talking maybe 3,000 jobs or so, which can be replaced with some smart government spending if need be.
I used to live in a city that had a large British base which got shut down during that time. The local media was full of stories of how that would negatively effect the economy and such, but overall it barely made a dent, and not having these drunk soildiers causing trouble every weekend sure was an advantage 🤷
yeah they won’t be missed. also there are still 30.000-35.000 US soldiers in germany.
But why?
to protect us of course. havent found out from whom yet, but i feel really protected right now.
Before Trump, it was pretty obviously meant to protect against Russia as well as part of Germany’s integration into NATO - and the majority of Germans were more than fine with it.
The disconnect is you’re talking about how it effects the people who live there…
Back in the day, a base would beef up local small businesses, who had to hire substantially more employees, who then spent their wages in town. Now it just means your chain stores take a profit cut. Not many people lose jobs, because there’s not that many to lose. The few who do, didn’t have much disposable income to spread around anyways
When the local media complains about it hurting an area, they’re talking about GDP level stuff. That just doesn’t really affect people’s day today lives, especially in the short term or if there’s corruption that was easting up those funds.
But all over, these a disconnect because billionaires syphon off as much as they can. So things that used to put money in local communities, just don’t anymore. So places need to re-evalute if they still have a benefit
The US military employees something like 12,000 German civilians directly. You will need new jobs for them. The US soldiers also spend some money in the local economy. So we are talking maybe 3,000 jobs or so, which can be replaced with some smart government spending if need be.