But the airport insists growth offers prosperity.
Alonso Segura, the finance minister, insists growth will rebound to 4.8% in 2015.
But clean-energy advocates insist growth is sustainable because of the likes of Mr Schwarzenegger.
In his first speech he promised "a new path" for Europe, insisting growth measures to kick-start economies would go hand in hand with the reduction of public debt.
He stressed that a focus on wellbeing would not mean economic growth would be sidelined, as he insisted that "growth is the essential foundation of all our aspirations".
But, he insisted, "the growth market will remain here in Frankfurt".
He insisted that growth rather than contraction should be expected from the combined group but admitted that planned synergies in the paints operation alone would be worth £189m annually.
He admitted the sanctions had "negative consequences" but insisted: "The growth of internal agricultural production is inevitable".
For the past decade a large coterie of pundits, prognosticators and their media camp followers have insisted that growth in America would be concentrated in places hip and cool, largely the bluish regions of the country.
Insisting that growth and disruption, not balance and harmony, were the key signs of success was very strange.
