Germany has a great layer of "consultants" that fudge the books and make everything look profitable and rosy. It's the land of "Arbeitsgruppen" and "Berater" - folks that ensure things get buried and forgotten.

But there is no investment in the future, no investment in infrastructure and no investment in anything creative, in fact, that's were cuts are made, in the arts and culture.

Once a society can no longer afford the arts, you know there is something going wrong and Germany is going wrong. Perhaps "klagen auf hohem Niveau" (complaining from up on high) but the higher they are, the further they fall.