They got saddled with herds of useless folk when the wall fell and it blew up their social welfare system, and then they had already been burdened with a youth virulently anti-nuke, I remember all those idiots protesting all the damn time with their grim reaper costumes and anti-nuke and anti-Reagan signs and crap...the former led to needing cheap import labor (mostly foreign and often times Muzzie) and the latter handcuffed them energy-wise, but ironic isn't it that a nuclear powered Germany was forbidden but it is swell if the world wants batshyt effing nuts Muslim religious fanatatics in Iran have nuclear power?
The world is effed up in so many ways it isn't close to funny.