Alice
Weidel
Recession
AfD
Kompakt, July 30, 2020
[Alice Weidel is a chairman of the
Alternative für Deutschland delegation in the German Bundestag as well as AfD
chairman in the western German state of Baden-Württemberg.]
The
Federal Republic of Germany is stuck in the most difficult recession of its
existence. That is not only the consequence of the much too long lockdown and
the many times over-done Corona measures, a portion of which will continue to be
maintained. “Climate defense” socialism and an “energy transformation” planned
economy have already done heavy damage to the foundations of the German economy
and industry. As long as this policy is enforced, all the invocations of a
rapid economic recovery are simply faith-healing without reference to reality.
Hundreds
of thousands have already lost their jobs, part-time work is at record level.
It is unknown how many of the almost seven million part-time workers may keep
their jobs. Germany is standing before an autumn of bankruptcy with tens of
thousands of insolvencies and mass unemployment. The enormous public
expenditures have thus far only protracted these consequences yet in the long-term
cannot stop them. Conversely, the public debt, to the burden of future
generations, will be irresponsibly driven through the roof.
Against
this background, it is irresponsible of the Federal government to want to pump
billions and billions as transfers and liability obligations into the EU
re-distribution system in the form of the so-called “Reconstruction Funds”. We
need our money in our own country. Germany needs a political transformation. The
best cyclical program in this situation would be a reduction of value-added,
income and business taxes for an undetermined period, the withdrawal from the
failed “energy transformation” and a foregoing of the pursuit of the unworldly,
“climate defense”, planned economy. The irresponsible efforts to conjure up a “second
wave” and a new “lockdown” are, on the contrary, poison for the economic
recovery and could end in the annihilation of countless existences.
[trans: tem]
