Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Jörg Meuthen, November 11, 2019, Basic Pension


Jörg Meuthen
Basic Pension
AfD Kompakt, November 11, 2019

[Jörg Meuthen is a national chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and he leads 
the AfD’s delegation in the European Parliament where the AfD belongs to the Identity and Democracy party.]

The SPD has had its way. The Social Democratization of the CDU goes on uninterrupted. The waiving of the means testing impressively evinces this. To save the coalition and hold onto power, the Union is evidently ready for everything. With the waiving of the means testing for basic pensions, similar demands in other areas threaten the social security, which would destroy the social state principle. This total sell-out of ordnungspolitischer principles should now be acknowledged, honestly and without illusions, by the last, reasonable CDU politicians and voters. The CDU has finally arrived at Social Democracy.

Throughout the entire basic pensions debate, the cartel parties for decades have emphatically made retirement policy promises. Instead of getting a grip on the root of the problem, a set screw within the existing, decrepit retirement system is unfortunately turned, social demogoguery is foisted at the cost of succeeding generations, and then this is even sold as great retirement policy. In a total panic, time is played for, which fortunately is running out, indeed for the SPD as well as for the Union.



[Translated by Todd Martin]