German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/68,
p. 7940.
Herr President. Dear colleagues. Honorable citizens.
We stand at the beginning of a recession. While savings
measures will be spoken of, the people called upon to save and millions of
families are on the edge of despair, money for unnecessary prestige projects
will be expended, lobby associations taken into consideration and spared for
false purposes. The Family Ministry budget is exemplary of this. It sets false
priorities and is thoroughly soaked in green ideology.
For false priorities, the “Language Day Care” program – cost
factor: 250 million euros per year – is the best example. This program is the
life’s blood of many day cares. Over 7,000 professionals are thereby financed
nationwide so as to promote the language development of the children. The latest
studies indicate to us how important this is, whereby early childhood language
education fell to an unheard level thanks to the Corona preventive measures.
And what do you do as nearly the first official act? In the
Family Ministry this program was eliminated. Following a great wave of protest,
the Ministry now comes about and yet again 109 million euros is posited for use
in the interval – that is, until June 2023 – money which otherwise was erroneously
provided with a stop notation.
Two billion euros were grandiosely announced for the new
Good Day Care Law which is now called the “Day Care Quality Law”. That however
is a potent smoke screen. There has of course flowed just zero cents more so
far by means of this Good Day Care Law.
Where you cut, once again completely lacking transparency,
is for example in the investment programs for the child care financing. In the years
2020 and 2021, there was still foreseen one billion euros. Were thus a balance
sum for the day care promotion reckoned, the account would appear as follows:
Minus 230 million euros for the Federal programs, inclusive of the language day
care, minus 500 million euros for the investment programs. For 2023, that makes
a minus of 750 million euros which is omitted nationwide. That is inconceivable
for a Family Minister.
Yet you plainly set your priorities differently; since, ja, there must be money for your
lobbyist colleagues and for the green ideology agenda of your ministry. For the
so-called measures for strengthening variety and tolerance, 200 million euros
are again foreseen. That thereby organizations with a direct connection in the
Moslem Brotherhood will also be promoted – all the same.
For your lobbyist colleagues there is an abundance of money.
That is best seen in regards the anti-discrimination commissioner, Frau Ataman.
Leni Breymaier (SPD): Good woman!
Her office, completely detached from any responsibility,
next year receives 13.4 million euros. That is fully 250 percent more than in
2021. So as to raise the money for that moreover, the women’s homes were cut.
Denise Loop (Greens): That is not right!
If I may then continue in the list: There are again 10
million euros for the political party youth organizations. In clear text: A
gift of the taxpayers to the political organizations like Grüne Jugend, Jusos,
Linkes Jugend and Co.. 10 million euros for welfare associations for the “Counseling
of Refugees”. I can here will imagine that soon with this next motion, the
citizens’ money is imparted for “counseling” – and, and, and.
The crowning of the whole was nevertheless seriously the
coalition’s motion in the settlement sitting of two weeks ago. Without shame,
you have actually explicitly given money to specified firms. There were the
yearly payment to the PHINEO AG of 350,000 euros or the 1.34 million euros for
LGBTQ projects – the most of which, 850,000 euros, explicitly for Pinkdot.
Normally, duties and goals for a ministry’s budget are
defined, then money placed at disposal and the attendant guidelines written out,
to which the firms can then apply. Yet it is thus very burdensome and costly.
It is just much more convenient to name an actual firm and to write it in the
budget.
Stephan Brandner (AfD): Unbelievable!
The entire bureaucracy thus saves. It is only about a
trifling 1.2 million euros. Who should be troubled by that? That is cronyism
par excellence.
While the people will be called upon to save, while debts
are made as if there was no tomorrow, here without shame money will be
distributed to lobbyist associations. That is impudent. And it is
incomprehensible why the FDP participates in all this nonsense.
Stephan Brandner (AfD): I well understand it: Lust for positions.
We of the AfD in any case will not share in this title and
this budget – not as long as ideology and lobbyism are placed above the needs
of the families in this country.
Many thanks.
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