German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/43, pp. 4947-4951.
Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable Herr Chancellor. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
This end-stage coalition ever more recalls the bridge of the Titanic: Germany lists, the bulkheads break open. Yet you have the ship’s band play on with the same soothing melodies.
Katharina
Dröge (Greens): The country is thus bad-mouthed!
The Captain has nothing more to say and simply looks on because the First Mate has snatched from him the captain’s cap.
Ralf
Stegner (SPD): And the ordinary seaman stands at the speaker’s podium.
Germany can no longer continue to afford this clowns theater which you here allow for half a year. The crisis is here and it is not only one iceberg, it is at least five which rip open the hull of our ship of state.
Crisis site number one: The social state. The social security system is out of control and becomes unaffordable. A third of the Bund’s total tax income in the coming year alone will need to be expended for stabilizing the pension account. In that regard, the demographic costs resulting from the retirement of the high birthrate cohorts have been acknowledged for decades.
Britta Haßelmann (Greens): Explain for once to the citizens how you want to finance your pensions package! 70 percent!
42.3 percent of non-wage costs. That is a record and warning sign. Instead, when it is much too late to reform the system and form reserves for the future, you still pulverize the at hand financial scope of action so as to gain time.
The social state crisis is inseparable from the migration crisis. Millions of people have in the last ten years streamed uncontrolled into the country. They have in large part immigrated directly into the social system. The consequent costs one-sidedly burden the working population – the tax-payers and those who pay contributions. They shall stabilize, with renunciation of benefits and higher contributions, the unaffordable healthcare system and they need bear the costs of the Bürgergeld, long since become migrant money which continues out of control. Every second recipient is a foreign citizen and is provided for without cost and contribution. What of that is sozial justice?
Your SPD coalition partner braces itself against even symbolic policy corrections. To merely remove the Ukrainians sustained by the benefits terms in the last half-year is not even a drop on the hot stone. In Germany, there are one million rejected asylum applicants; yet of your grandiosely announced deportation offensive nothing continues to be seen. Despite receding asylum numbers, each year a large city immigrates by abuse of the asylum law, and an additional large city comes after by way of the family reunification.
The citizens who need pay for this moreover lose their Heimat. In 275 Bavarian school classes sits not a single native German-speaking child. That is a declaration of bankruptcy.
The migration crisis kills the right of entire generations to an orderly education. And while the borders remain open, our Christmas markets are transformed into fortresses or will even be entirely cancelled.
Needing to bear these burdens is a country which for over three years is stuck deep in a recession. The industrial core erodes at a breath-taking speed. The German automobile industry has lost 50,000 jobs within one year. Down-sizing and exodus take hold of the entire production industry. 41 percent of the operations plan in 2026 a further down-sizing. A never before seen wave of bankruptcy sweeps across the country and decimates the Mittelstand. Credit insurers fear the number of insolvencies could climb in the coming year to 30,000.
What drives the businesses and workplaces out of the country
is primarily the homemade energy crisis; the industrial chiefs, who
unfortunately were silent for much too long, now say this to you.
The artificially increased expense of energy by means of the so-called CO2 pricing will still further accelerate the de-industrialization. You raise an arbitrarily imposed tax on the air, artificially drive it further to the heights, and still call that a market economy instrument, Herr Merz. The green nonsense can scarcely be further driven to the extreme.
The dogmas of open borders and climate protection drive our country, our beloved Germany, to ruin. Instead of coming about, your coalition steps on the gas along this wrong way, and wants with a “new boost” for the international climate protection bless the entire world with the downfall.
And because you do not want to acknowledge all of that, but toss around money which does not belong to you as if there was no tomorrow, Germany is also stuck in a binding finance and state indebtedness crisis.
With the financial coup d’état, euphemistically called “special funds” [Sondervermögen], you have burdened Germany with the largest mountain of debt in post-war history. Of that will remain only the interest and tax costs for the tax and contribution payers. Every second euro of the special funds supposedly foreseen for investment will, according to your planning, be mis-appropriated for consumption expenditures. That quite clearly does not conform to the constitution. Your budget does not conform to the constitution.
Sven
Lehmann (Green): Your party does not conform to the constitution!
Instead of, as promised, eliminating superfluous spending and consolidating the budget, you toss the money by the handful out the window. A billion for a dubious tropical forest, six billion moreover for an international climate protection, 11.5 billion for the Ukraine without knowing whether or not the money yet again lands at corrupt war profiteers. Gott sei Dank – Gott sei Dank! – we have with Donald Trump a real chance of peace, to which you have contributed no part. Quite the contrary.
The fivefold crisis is not a fatal destiny but a direct consequence of false political decisions. It cannot so continue; you also quite precisely know that, and I do not want to again do the math for you, for you of the SPD just so not.
Jürgen
Cosse (SPD): You do the math!
You are stuck so deep in the morass of the socialist superstition of redistribution that you cannot grasp what you, with your ideological wrong way, have generally done to our country.
Dirk Wiese
(SPD): What do you say of your members’ Russia travel?
Primitive Antifa screaming
Britta Haßelmann (Greens): Which was good!
Alexander
Hoffmann (CSU/CSU): Why? The Antifa is pleased to be in Russia!
and mindless, anti-democratic Verbot fantasies for you replace the competition of political ideas. The stereotypical cry for more and still higher taxes and for more and higher debt for you take the place of economic expertise.
President
Julia Klöckner: Frau member, do you permit an interim question from member Wiese of the SPD delegation?
No, that is unusual in the budget debate; you know that.
Katharina Dröge (Greens): That is not at all unusual. You simply do not dare!
Alexander
Hoffmann (CSU/CSU): You are scared, Frau Weidel! You are scared! Nothing other! You are scared of the interim
question!
No, I am not scared, anyway of you. You are scared. Might I please continue?
Alexander
Hoffmann (CSU/CSU): The answer is not in the speaking notes, ne?
Sven Lehmann (Green): Yes, but not with the reasoning.
Götz Frömming (AfD): It is nevertheless possible for all to speak. What s this?
President
Julia Klöckner: We need not now comment on that here. Please continue.
How you here smirk! That, the voters will exactly note before all things at the impending State legislative elections!
Frauke Heiligenstadt (SPD): You don’t smirk, ne?
Sören
Pellmann (Green): That’s certainly a level in the early morning!
You, dear colleagues of the Union, know quite precisely what you do. Some of you even speak ever again of what actually needs to be done. Yet you do exactly the opposite.
And you, Herr Merz, have in the election campaign announced and promised all possible things, what is of bitter necessity and needs be urgently done. You thereby grandiosely helped yourself to our election program.
Jens Spahn
(CDU/CS): Oh mann, oh mann, oh mann!
Yet then – since otherwise Herr Merz would not be Herr Merz – you broke every single one of your election promises. You left the citizens in the lurch and wore yourself out with slander and insult of the opposition, instead of addressing the problems in our country.
Ralf
Stegner (SPD): Get a handkerchief!
You have thereby wasted valuable time and intensified the crisis, and all of that because you make yourself a prisoner of the leftist unity front as a result of your firewall.
Günter
Krings (CDU/CSU): Do you come to the content?
This tactic has failed. Germany requires an immediate program for reform of the state, economy and society. It is time for the Deutschland Plan of the Alternative für Deutschland.
It is a twelve point plan to again get Germany on its feet.
First, we require advantageous and secure energy. That is the basis for economic impetus and prosperity. We therefore need to immediately end the failed experiment of the energy transformation. We need to immediately end the destruction of nuclear power, the demolition of nuclear power plants, and push the re-entry into nuclear power and we need to buy natural gas and oil where it is most advantageous, and that is in Russia.
Reinhard Brandl (CDU/CSU): Now it comes out!
Alexander
Hoffmann (CSU/CSU): Ah!
And that is in our national interest, and the Americans want that, too. And that is why there are these peace negotiations: Because the Americans represent their national interests, which you for Germany have forgotten, dear CDU.
Steffen Bilger (CDU/CSU): Here, it’s about Russian interests!
Reinhard
Brandl (CDU/CSU): Which interests do you represent? The mask has fallen!
Second. We need to end the wind and solar electricity subventions and, without replacement, eliminate the ruinous CO2 pricing and the emissions trade. And we need to immediately abolish the unhappy heating law which cold expropriates countless owners of real property.
Third. In economic policy, the fundamentals need again apply: Market economy Ordnungspolitik instead of eco-socialist planned economy.
Claudia
Roth (Greens): Oah!
That means the abolition of the combustion engine Verbot and all supply chain laws at the national as well as the EU level. We will end the Politik of Verbot and manipulation.
Katharina
Dröge (Greens): Because human rights for you simply play not role at all!
Fourth. Our economy requires an unleashing program for setting free market economic powers which liberate them from bureaucratic regulations and drastically lowers the cost of taxes and duties.
Fifth. In Sozialpolitik, we need to return consistently to the solidarity principle. Full social benefits only for members of the solidarity community who also make their contributions to the social security systems. I certainly do not know what you have against the solidarity principle. That, I find interesting.
Jürgen Cosse (SPD): Do you actually pay taxes in Germany?
Sven
Lehmann (Greens): Against you we have something.
In place of the unfortunately baptised by you Bürgergeld, an activating basic security needs to enter which in fact drastically sinks the costs.
Sixth. So that the statutory Pension Insurance remains affordable, it needs to be completely relieved of all non-insurance benefits and be supported by means of additional funded pillars.
Ines
Schwerdtner (Linke): Neo-liberal!
To that also belongs a pension state fund, a so-called equalization [Ausgleich] fund for a stabilization of the statutory pension of the first pillar. The officials pension needs to be reformed, the civil service status strictly limited to a few sovereign areas of responsibility. Politicians, officials and holders of mandates need to be included in the statutory Pensions Insurance.
Seventh. The absent migration change needs to be introduced by a Politik of the closed door. That means in clear text: Seamless border controls, turning back all illegals without exception, finally a rigorous deportation which the law besides prescribes, and an end to the multi-million violations of the law.
Eighth. The migration magnets will be turned off. For asylum applicants, there is only benefits in kind instead of cash. Naturalized will be only those who, according to strong criteria and at earliest after ten years, are standing on their feet and fully at work. Naturalization by claim will be abolished.
Ninth. State spending needs to be decisively slashed. Instead of unlimited new indebtedness, the public hand needs to get by with the tax intake. The state needs to keep itself out of the economy and out of the private life of the citizens, and confine itself to its core duties: Domestic and external security, maintenance of the state of law and public order.
Tenth. Clientele policy subventions will be eliminated. The public financing of pseudo non-political organizations will be forbidden. The Antifa as a terrorist organization will be forbidden. The public broadcasting fees will be abolished. The squandering of tax money in all the world ends. We require our remaining resources for our own country, for our own citizens.
Eleventh. Urgently necessary is a structural reform which deconstructs the bureaucracy, clears away the funding jungle and leaves tax money in economic circulation with the citizens and business.
Twelfth and last. A Tax Reform 25 with uniformly lowered tax rates, family splitting and a high allowance relieves the large majority of citizens, families, and before all the middle class. The solidarity surcharge will finally be completely abolished.
That is our Deutschland Plan, that is our immediate program for Germany.
Götz
Frömming (AfD): Bravo!
The most important and urgent measures to correct the damages we could in common immediately decide. Immediately! The majorities for that would be at hand in this house if the bürgerlichen powers of reason come together
Britta Haßelmann (Greens): You are not bürgerliche!
Derya
Turk-Nachbaur (SPD): Extreme right is other than bürgerliche!
and finally fulfill the will of the voters, the majority of whom voted for a bürgerliche center-right Politik.
Michael Schrodi (SPD): Extreme right!
Claudia
Roth (Greens): You are not bürgerliche!
It is thus about namely a center-right Politik,
Ralf
Stegner (SPD): Extreme right!
a bürgerliche Politik and not a leftist-green Politik. You here have walled yourselves in. Make reasonable Politik for the citizens and business.
It thus lies with you, right honorable colleagues of the Union, whether you want to continue to allow yourselves to be led by leftist apron strings and green losers, or
Britta Haßelmann (Greens): …whether you continue to surround yourself with right-wing extremists!
whether you are ready to place the good of the country above personal vanities and ideological prejudices. We are ready for that, out of love and responsibility for Germany.
I am grateful.
Ralf
Stegner (SPD): So simple-minded!
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