German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/26, pp.
2212-2213.
Frau President.
Over the entire budget week hovers the new Lauterbach
dictum: “We will from now on always be in a state of exception”. In just one
fiscal year were 10 billion euros expended for Corona tests and even still more
for vaccinations with mRNA vaccines which in no way reduce mass infections;
presently there are a good 150,000 people and infections each day. Can the reason
for this be that the Health Minister’s public relations advertising budget has been
expressed forty-fold? Only a bad product needs be marketed at such expense or
indeed imposed by force. Had we a good vaccine against a truly dangerous virus,
there would be a black market for a vaccine and no law for a vaccination
mandate.
The Bundestag is besides ever further disempowered by means
of supplementary budgets. The “Bundeswehr special fund” becomes where possible
technically the blue print for positions in the billions which in the future
are “in addition to the debt brake”. That was a citation of the Finance
Minister which in effect means: They are in addition to the Federal budget.
Thus also can 200 billion euros be simply promised for the
climate by means of a climate and transformation special fund which already
disposes of very high reserves; and despite that shall now receive still more
billions of euros in new allotments at the pump. The climate fund can then for
years expend, without regard to the debt brake, some 40 billion euros per year;
that is more than one-tenth of the Federal budget. 40 billion euros corresponds
to 205 work-hours – thus an entire month each year – which every income tax
payer will need to feed to Moloch so as to generate the means for the so-called
energy transition – and that is still not yet the entire compulsory service.
Lunacy!
The “Bundeswehr special fund” similarly brings, budget-like,
– I emphasize budget-like – many dam breaks. It would naturally be correct to routinely put
into the core budget all defense expenditures corresponding to the principle of
per annum. Nevertheless, in the outline put forward for the Bundeswehr Special Fund
Act is – cite:
An estimate of expenditures in the Federal budget is, on account… of the multi-year implementation time frame, not sensible.
Now, very many budget projects are of more than one year.
Our instrumentation includes precisely the tools for obligations authorizations
of more than one year and the transferability of means to the following year.
And thus without special funds.
Then is to be mentioned the unprecedented hedge for altering
the Basic Law. Unprecedented, never before done! A budgetary position only
alterable by a future Bundestag with a two-thirds majority is to my thinking
constitutionally highly questionable.
Shall this now become the model for new exceptional
situations: Other wars, additional pandemics, new once-in-a-century challenges,
further existential changes of the times, additional supplementary budgets from
now on recurring yearly? The core budget then reflects only a part of the
reality. Precisely there is where we are running.
The special fund even receives its own credit authority. That
is a regression to the time prior to the debt brake; thus, 2009 and earlier.
Lacking an amortization plan, the amortization of the special fund takes place
on Never-never Day. Let us briefly recall at this point the FDP motion 19/10616
with the title “Strengthen the Debt Brake…”:
There must in the future be defined an amortization plan binding for the duration of a business cycle…and for emergency extra debts.
Tempi passati. – Long ago times for the FDP.
And then let us recall the EU-ropean supplementary budget “Next
Generation EU” which in 2021 was established under the pretext of “Corona”.
Already now in 2022 shall come the next EU debts fund, this time allegedly for
covering the consequences of the war. Thus only one year later already the
next, onetime, temporary EU community debts program. Draghi even gave the baby a name: “Resilience Fund” it shall
be called.
I said here in house on February 25, 2021 – it was actually almost prophetic:
Formally, with the “Next Generation EU”, the Bundestag is made a participant in a so-called limited single authorization…Such a single authorization is
– at 800 billion euros –
a bad joke and a dam break. If once this dam is broken, then will Brussels ever again take up giant, limited, single sums at the cost of German credit worthiness and grandiosely distribute them to southern Europe and France. Today's proposal places at disposal the Bundestag's budget right according to Article 110 of the Basic Law.
– My words of a year ago. We now stand precisely there
again, just one year later.
In that regard, the day before yesterday arrived this
report: The heads of state and of government of the EU member states want to
get underway this week an additional reconstruction fund – the Bundestag learns
of all that from the newspapers! The Federal government gave us in committee no
information, although EU Council President Michelin in that regard stated –
cite:
The views of the EU member states on the funds differ not in the least.
Thus, not even those of the German Finance Minister. Here,
all alarm clocks shrill! Since what Michel, Macron and Draghi want is well
known; all know it, only the German Bundestag should still not know. The Germans
shall be there only to underwrite and to pay in the billions. We shall be led by
stealth under pretext of an emergency into the illegal transfer and liability
union.
Thus in fact will be founded a European sovereignty – what here
meanwhile is quite openly expressed – which however means by definition an
abolition of the German sovereignty
Götz Frömming (AfD): Unconstitutional!
and thereby clearly is unconstitutional.
Our undertaking in that regard runs: – I come to a
conclusion – Just as with a budget emergency as well as with the vaccination mandate
on the basis of a long-term pandemic state of exception à la Lauterbach, we
hold with Willy Brandt:
Who…would play with the state of emergency so as to restrict freedom will find my friends and I at the barricades
– for the defense –
of democracy.
And: It was long ago, SPD!
Many thanks.
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