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(Germany has had decades of, by German standards, unjust governments, with the worst under the egregious Helmut Kohl, briefly interrupted by a largely ineffectual Blairite government under Schröder that introduced the "Agenda 2010", a still hotly-disputed set of measures re-regulating social welfare. Searching for "Hartz IV" should yield quite a lot of information about it. The levels even of visible poverty when travelling around Germany are often shocking--quite normally-dressed pensioners begging in the street, people searching bins, again often pensioners, for recyclables that they can return to make a few cents, etc.)