German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 21/89, pp. 10882-10883.
Frau President. Herr Chancellor. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
The Chancellor is there; I can see him back there.
Beatrix von Storch (AfD): He shuns the picture in common!
Herr Merz, since you are in office, with narrow-minded assurance you do
the opposite of what you have promised and what would be right for this
country.
Michael Kellner (Greens): “Narrow-minded assurance”, yet you
know of what you speak, or?
You wanted to speak on the situation. You have not done it; for the situation
in this country is disastrous. Month by month, 15,000 industrial workplaces
fall away. The auto industry is in a downfall. The de-industrialization turns
into mass flight. Even Volkswagen staggers. 100,000 workplaces are on the
verge. Suppliers and service providers fall like dominoes. Not a week without
bad news. The German Mittelstand expends reserves. The insolvency tsunami
expels prosperity and good jobs from Germany. Every 20 minutes a German
firm goes bankrupt. The productive future investments have fallen to the null
point. Germany has declined in international competition.
The ideological costs of your Politik and the Politik of your predecessors
burden the German economy and all Germans and are no longer to be borne.
At 6 trillion – 6,000 billion – euros estimates the economist Bernd
Raffelhüschen the accumulated costs of the German migration policy. So
expensive again becomes the failed energy transition if it is then executed to
the bitter end, and nothing other than an industrial desert is left behind in
Germany.
And the citizens and the taxpayers? They grow poor. They feel the downfall
every day in their own pocketbook. The sozial spending explodes. It rises faster
than the pay. Who works and pays taxes, he is the dummy torn between rising
tax and duties costs, escalating costs for energy, housing, cost of living, and
shrinking real incomes which everywhere do not suffice for a living. Out of
such a situation there is only one exit: To lower the state expenditures, to
eliminate all that is superfluous from the budget, to end the ideological wrong
way, to leave in the citizens’ pocket more of the hard earned money, and to
immediately liberate the economy from bureaucratic and fiscal restraints and
immediately end the artificial increased expense and scarcity of energy. That
is precisely what you promised the citizens before the election. You do the
opposite.
Instead, you deride the taxpayer with an anti-reform package which lifts the
exploitation to the next stage. You preen yourself with a fake tax reform. You
do not relieve the taxpayer, you further burden him. You increase and discover
new taxes on tobacco, plastic, alcohol, sugar and crypto investments. You cut
the parents money, burden families, increase the sozial contributions. Under the
title “rich tax”, a pure tax of envy, you draw money from the pocket of the
Mittelstand. You load the accounting for the expenditures. You one-sidedly
seek out the taxpayers and contribution payers and in addition insult them –
they should work more and longer, not so many sick days – as complainers who
should step aside, if you please.
exploitation to the next stage. You preen yourself with a fake tax reform. You
do not relieve the taxpayer, you further burden him. You increase and discover
new taxes on tobacco, plastic, alcohol, sugar and crypto investments. You cut
the parents money, burden families, increase the sozial contributions. Under the
title “rich tax”, a pure tax of envy, you draw money from the pocket of the
Mittelstand. You load the accounting for the expenditures. You one-sidedly
seek out the taxpayers and contribution payers and in addition insult them –
they should work more and longer, not so many sick days – as complainers who
should step aside, if you please.
So that citizens and journalists put fewer inconvenient questions, you tighten
the freedom of information law. You give more competences to the secret
services and to the Constitution Protection. Ja, the fleecing and the suppression
of the citizens and of the opposition need to conclusively proceed with the state
repression.
And that fits that today your Ursula von der Leyen of the CDU in the EU
Parliament wants again to have by expedited motion a vote on the total control
of the citizens, chat control, after this was rejected umpteen times. Vote until it
passes! By the total control in autos, in the chats, you thus want to control the
citizens, while Ursula von der Leyen has deleted her Pfizer deals by SMS.
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): It’s about sexual abuse of children!
I say to you one thing: To you applies the saying “All men are equal, many are
more equal”. And that exactly is your CDU Politik summed up.
You put forward a draft budget and a finance plan which explode all limits
of the spending frenzy and debt-making. You thereby further finance the eco-
socialist climate protection ideology of which the rest of the world for long
wants to know nothing more. You continue to squander billions and billions
of euros for useless development aid which makes BlackRock still richer and
nourishes some profiteers and lobbyists. With your Politik, you serve not
Germany, but perhaps secure for yourself a high paid occupation by
connection after you have left behind nothing other than scorched earth.
You pump additional untold sums into the NGO swamp and into the migration
industry, even when its favorites sink into a morass of corruption and infidelity;
or, like the flight assistant of the murderer of six in Stade – from the SPD – are
entangled in criminal machinations.
You stir up Kriegsangst, and mis-use this as a license so as to, under the pretext
of security expenditures, let fall the last inhibitions in regards debt-making. You
drive the arms spending to astronomical heights, without that thereby something
would be won for Germany’s security. Instead, you construct a state-controlled
and -financed armaments economy as a replacement for the real industry directed
to fundamentals – an armaments industry the products of which you donate to
the Ukraine.
Year by year, you want to make more than 200 billion euros in debts; that is
one trillion euros until 2030. In the next year alone, we pay interest in the sum
of 40 billion euros, this year 32 billion euros. This then accumulates until 2030.
I know, you laugh, you find that funny.
Heidi Reichinnek (Linke): We don’t laugh. We suffer.
To 2030, we have an interest service of 80 billion euros. – Listen to yourselves,
for you cannot deal with numbers, especially you of the SPD. You can’t do it. –
You thereby risk losing Germany’s top rating in the capital markets. Your
financial policy drives Germany directly into state bankruptcy, and the owners,
the citizens with homes and mortgages, into ruin. Who profits? Perhaps BlackRock
or international investors can purchase at the lowest prices the German real estate
in the year 2029 or 2030 at the latest. There again is closed the circle for this
Chancellor Merz.
You leave behind a heap of rubble for those who come after you. A heap of
rubble! I can say one thing to you: We will, despite this, accept the challenge and
do the necessary when the voters give us the mandate.
Dirk Weise (SPD): That, they will not do!
And when everything will have been knocked kaputt by you, we will liberate the
state budget, the sozial system and the taxpayer from unnecessary and harmful
spending and subventions. We will cut back the rampant Staatsapparat, halt
the mass migration into the sozial system and push the consistent deportation
of illegals and criminals. And we will abolish the individual right to asylum! We
will end the ideological energy transition and lower the oppressive energy costs
and tax burden. We are ready to overtake responsibility for Germany. Finally
make free the way for a new government!
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): Boring!
That is the one service which you can still do for this country, Herr Merz!
Jens Spahn (CDU/CSU): Boring! Always the same!
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