So this is something I did'nt intend to write about: politics.



I had the time this mornig to watch the speech of the german chanclor Gerhard Schröder. He asked for a vote of confidence in front of the german Bundestag, because the opposition blocks most of the reforms which are decided in the Bundestag in the upper house of the German parliament. That's where the opposition has the majotrity...

Since there would be still more than one year to the next election period, and he's not willing to play along this game, he chose to aks for a vote of confidence to allow the Federal President to dissolve the Bundestag and make early elections possible in september.

Now you will ask: "And what the heck is so important that this guy writes about it?"

The important thing is, that Schröder gives all his political influences away, letting the people decide, wether his party should continue the reforms of the "Agenda 2010" or take the opposition in responsibility for (at least) the next four years, the next election period.

So in september, the german people will have to decide, which course the want to follow for the next four years and once again one specific sentence comes to my thoughts, allthough I don't know, from whom it is:

"Every people has the government it deserves."



...and I hope, we still deserve a good one.






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Next journal will be about the glorious concert of Tory Amos in the "Alten Oper" in Frankfurt last tuesday... oh my - she was brilliant!