This Will WorkThe German media unite to tell people
they're better off than they think.
Entitled "You are Germany", the campaign took up two pages in Monday's national newspapers with a moody colour photograph of the German Olympic skating champion Claudia Pechstein tearing across an icebound lake "There is no name that you can't cheer about" said the accompanying slogan.
Katarina Witt, another Olympic skating champion, told Germans in a television advertisement: "Don't ask what others can do for you. You are the others. You are Germany!"Let's see if we can help the effort. Hey, Germans, you are far better off than you think! Your unemployment rate is about 1/3rd lower than America's was during the Great Depression!