German
Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/11, pp. 620-621.
Frau
President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Frau State Secretary.
Let us speak
of present problems. The inflation has reached a state of 5.2 percent. That is
the highest value in almost three decades. The energy prices are going through
the roof. The heating becomes a luxury for ever more people. Diesel on Monday
was never before so expensive in post-war history. Commuters are out of, in the
the truest sense of the word, sprit
[gas, spirit]. The foodstuff prices have climbed around 6 percent, the lines at
the Tafel become ever longer. And in
this regard, the only one to be heard from in the Federal government is Cem Özdemir
who demands increasing food prices. What is still required so as to acknowledge
that this country is governed by a satisfied elite which has completely
uncoupled itself from the people?
That it may
be otherwise is indicated by a glance at foreign countries – France has capped the
electricity and gas prices and introduced energy checks for 6 million
households. Hungary has reacted, Austria has reacted, Poland has reacted; there
is a fuel tax reduction to zero and foodstuff assistance for the poorest
families. And Germany? Up to today, the Federal government has made use of not
a single measure. It was much more important to name a queer commissioner who
represents the interests of trans-sexuals. And you, ladies and gentlemen, fight
as if in a pre-school over the seating order. What an embarrassment!
Ladies and
gentlemen, embarrassing also is the connection with a central question of
justice in Germany. The average pension of a woman with three children is at
751 euros. An unemployed Afghan, who has never paid a cent into our social
system,
Hermann Gröhe (CDU/CSU): Shame on you!
Gerold Otten (AfD): Those are nevertheless facts!
has a claim –
let us take Hamburg – to 944 euros in social assistance, 200 euros more than a
woman who has provided a life’s achievement, who has built up the country, who
has paid taxes and who has cared for future contribution payers.
Britta Haßelamnn (Greens): Shame on you!
That is a disgrace for politics!
Hermann Gröhe (CDU/CSU): You are a disgrace!
Marianne Schieder (SPD): That is
unbelievable!
It is a
disgrace for governments which over many years and decades have promised social
justice to the voters.
Britta Haßelamnn (Greens): This, what you are doing, is a disgrace!
Around 40
percent of all Hartz IV recipients are foreigners.
Marianne Schieder (SPD): Stop with
this agitation!
Almost 40 percent
of all children living in Germany live in Hartz IV families – 40 percent! The increase
in poverty in our country is almost completely the result of immigration.
Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): Rubbish!
Acknowledge
this reality!
Marianne Schieder (SPD): This is impossible!
The policy of
open borders is an attack upon our social state.
And you learn
nothing, you still continue: Still more immigration, still higher social
benefits, omission of sanctions. All of this cannot be the solution. These
grants of money are an enormous pull factor for attracting additional poverty
migrants to Germany.
Right honorable
ladies and gentlemen, the tax money which you require for the financing of poverty
migrants does not fall from heaven, but is produced by millions of normal
earners who day by day are hard at work.
Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): If the migrant normal
earner was no longer here, then you would look pretty old. Then here of course the lights go out!
At them for once you should take a look. You however do not take a look at these normal earners, you simply continue to fleece the people. Instead of offering measures against the inflation, you take yet more money out their pockets so as to finance your fantasies of rescuing the world. And in old age, you leave behind the people in poverty.
Britta Haßelamnn (Greens): Hate and
agitation, that is the only thing you can do! Disgusting!
What a tragedy!
Ladies and
gentlemen, it cannot thus continue. Follow the example of Denmark which is led
by a social democratic government. Stop the poverty migration and finally make Sozialpolitik for your own people!
Many thanks
for your attention.
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