All-knowing German „reporter" throwing red meat to slobs living in caves

Ray or David’s Medienkritik goes after Spiegel and it’s America based propagandist and congenital liar Marc Pitzke. Why so bitter, Marc? Because the US is succeeding at European social goals without the dead wood of their corroded world view:

Pitzke tells us that under Bill Clinton (when America was still happy-land), the US poverty rate sank to 11.7% in 2000 and the world was in order. Under Bush, who Pitzke claims has ignored the problem and allowed the poor to languish, the poverty rate has supposedly skyrocketed out of control, with the poor getting poorer as the rich get richer. So let's look at the numbers: Pitzke writes that one out of eight Americans is living in poverty. That would represent 12.5% of the population, or less than 1% more than the 2000 level. This despite the massive economic burden of September 11, two wars and Hurricane Katrina. Add to that consistently strong economic growth over the past few years (compared with virtual stagnation in Germany) and the 4.6% unemployment rate (in Germany it is over 11%) and the Bush performance doesn't seem so shabby after all...

But wait a minute. Bush is incompetent and hates the poor. Germany must be far better off. After all, seven years of enlightened, Socialist rule must have left the nation in an ideal state when compared with the horrific misrule of Bush. Let's look at the numbers...GASP...Germany - that true shining paragon of social justice and economic equality - has a poverty rate of 13.9%, up from 12.7% in 2002 and 12.1% in 1998! According to recent reports, poverty among German children is "growing as in no other industrial state," with 37% of children living in Berlin below the poverty line.

Germans fleeing in record numbers also not reported.

So he isn’t just accusing others of cruelty, or of the crime of not thinking like a Euro, he’s overlooking the breeding ground of misery being created at home. Ignoring the failed social and economic theories behind it might just hurt a bit too much for our little Marc, but they explain his narcissistic hatred of the United States.