{"id":916,"date":"2009-09-28T10:25:16","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2009-09-28T10:43:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T14:43:26","slug":"german-voters-turn-to-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/916\/german-voters-turn-to-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"German Voters Turn To Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,556181,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">election result<\/a>, German voters this weekend turned toward tax cuts, free markets and labor reform, and sent the leftist Social Democratic Party (SDP) to its worst-ever performance.\u00a0 What made this election historic wasn&#8217;t the reelection of Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-right Christian Democratic Party (CDP), but rather the unprecedented success of the free-market Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Germans&#8217; rejection of socialism.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/southasia.fnst.org\/webcom\/show_article.php\/_c-385\/_lkm-239\/i.html\" target=\"_blank\">FDP platform<\/a> calls for reduced taxes, deregulation, moderation of Germany&#8217;s suffocating labor laws and strong ties with the United States, and its leader Guido Westerwelle confidently <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125409059387444687.html#mod=todays_us_page_one\" target=\"_blank\">called for tax simplification and lower rates<\/a> during his victory speech.\u00a0 German business also welcomed the results, with German Chambers of Industry and Commerce spokesman Heinrich Driftmann confirming that &#8220;the election result is a clear vote for courageous reforms.&#8221;\u00a0 Although Chancellor Merkel was elected in 2005, her slimmer victory margin forced her to enter a governing coalition with the socialist SDP, which threw a wet blanket on her market-oriented agenda.\u00a0 With the FDP&#8217;s remarkable showing, Germans expressed their desire to finally implement that freedom agenda.<\/p>\n<p>This result sends a clear signal to Americans as Obama attempts to impose his own socialist model upon the United States.\u00a0 Germans have seen that model first-hand during this global economic downturn, and soundly rejected it to provide a welcome example for American voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic election result, German voters this weekend turned toward tax cuts, free markets and labor reform, and sent the leftist Social Democratic Party (SDP) to its worst-ever performance.\u00a0 What made this election historic wasn&#8217;t the reelection of Chancellor Angela Merkel and her center-right Christian Democratic Party (CDP), but rather the unprecedented success of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[200,102,199],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-free-democratic-party","tag-free-market","tag-german-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}