Thursday, January 13, 2022

Martin Böhm, January 12, 2022, Inflation and the EU

AfD Kompakt, January 12, 2022.

What [ECB director Isabel] Schnabel now finally concedes, the citizens already for months painfully feel in the purse. With this delayed admission, the ECB manifestly makes use of a salami tactic. Instead of shoving off the price increase onto the “Corona pandemic” and temporary delivery bottlenecks for certain goods, it should rather speak plainly to the citizens: The origins of the inflation lie in the complete suppression by the ECB of all economic and financial principles. The expropriation of savers and the acknowledged acceptance of the impoverishment of our pensioners for years has a system – with the overriding goal of amortizing by means of inflation the debt burden of the decayed, southern European, red wine states.  The left-green energy transition introduced by Merkel and driven forward by the Ampel certainly accelerates it. The reasons nevertheless lie deeper. If in the last ten years a solid interest rate policy had been managed, this would have maintained our prosperity and without mercy exposed the mismanagement of the recipient countries.

Our demands as the AfD are clear: A sozial energy policy is to be formed. And by means of a foresighted change in interest rates in connection with a drastic reversal of all loan purchases, the worst for our citizens needs be avoided. Anything else requires an intensive consideration of a revision of the EU to the treaty basis prior to Maastricht and, in the last consequence, a DEXIT.

 

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