Merkel: "Stop Digging" (Presumably in German)

Angie Merkel clearly isn't angling for a cushy, post-government sinecure on the Russian payroll like Gerhard Schroeder, because she's suggesting that maybe Germany ought to rethink its profoundly silly policy of phasing out its nuclear plants. I say profoundly silly because the two very clear goals of sensible energy policy today ought to be 1) more and 2) cleaner. Germany's nukes are a big part of their energy supply base, phasing them out reduces supply dramatically. And nukes are emissions-free. So the greens should love them, but they don't because, like here in the US, Germany's greens aren't for abundant, clean energy, they're really for less energy, maybe even ultimately no energy. They are for lethargy. Capitalism runs on energy, they are against energy because ultimately they are against capitalism. Read any Social Democratic talking point on why the nukes should go, and you'll see their main objection is to profits.

Germany is on a slow, long decline, experiencing debilitating brain drain and yet it can't seem to do simple things to right itself. Merkel's call to keep the nukes is positive, but the black cloud in this silver lining is that she should have begun this campaign the day she took office, she's lost time and allowed needless energy inflation to further sour a populace already sour on free markets.