They gave up the D-mark in 1999 on the understanding that the eurowould be equallystableand that Germantaxpayerswould nothave topayforother members' mistakes.
But that's not such a good solution, because you'd end up having to pay interest on it and at some point they're just going to be tired of lending to us because they've got their own senior citizens that they want to take care off.