German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/143, pp. 18091-18093.
Right honorable Frau President.
Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
It needs be well stated following the government declaration of Chancellor
Olaf Scholz and after Herr Merz’s speech, that they have argued completely past the primary
cares and problems of one’s own country. Frau Haßelmann, your speech was a pure war speech,
nothing other. That has really shaken me.
It thus need not be wondered that ever more citizens look at the Federal
government with concern and really with a lack of understanding. If one peeks at the
half-time of this Federal government of which it needs be truly said: This country has never been
so run down since the Second World War. Within a few months, the economic nation of Germany has
been decisively changed by this Federal government: Inflation, a shrinking economy,
rising insolvencies. And, as a crown, the Federal Constitutional Court declares your special debts
budget unconstitutional. Your conclusions from that – we have today already again heard it: You do
not allow yourselves to be diverted, and run exactly so as ever, with the KTF and eyes open
into the dead end. – Thus appears this government’s present policy.
From the SPD we hear at the
party day: Social spending certainly belongs to the SPD’s DNA, social spending which
is meanwhile most deeply unsozial
because it no more cushions the emergencies of individuals but presents in the
form of Bürgergeldes [citizens’ wage]
a kind of basic income. This is tied neither to conditions,
Christian
Petry (SPD): Nonsense!
nor is partially worse paid work
motivated and generally something done for the social state. You see, valued
colleagues: This policy continues to create one-sided dependencies and plainly
no innovations.
Christian
Petry (SPD): No idea!
Herr Chancellor, we know you are
not a man of many words. You will perhaps go into the history of the Federal
Republic as the eternally silent Chancellor.
Stephan
Brandner (AfD): Olaf, the Forgetful!
For you, not only the
information for the Warburg Bank has gone missing; there is also no idea in
your cabinet – none which we notice – of what you actually want to make of
Germany. In that regard, we have again today heard nothing. The entire world
you want to save and the climate, too. Yet these cannot be the only goals of a German
Federal government.
The citizens of this country
need to stand quite high on the agenda for you. In your election campaign, your
yourself ever again spoke of “respect”. Where remains the respect for those in
this country who are economically active, for the Mittelstand, for the trades, for industry? Instead, you
artificially restrict the energy supply. You disconnect intact nuclear power
plants, permitting, with the attacks on Nord Stream, that our critical
infrastructure be destroyed, and stop the import of Russian gas.
The Economy Minister conducts
his green economic war within Germany and in the entire world. These also he
will not win. He so far fails with that, as the economic sanctions against
Russia indicate. These have for a consequence – we certainly see it presently –
that the Russian economy grows and ours shrinks. That is presently the
situation.
Today, almost every second large
business considers emigration from Germany, and every third already sits on
packed bags. In that regard, no words from you, Herr Chancellor. And with the
rising CO2 prices which you today have announced, you make Germany
as a business venue even more unattractive. Industry associations warn of a
de-industrialization. The Alternative für Deutschland had done that already for
years. For that, we were accused of conspiracy theories; that was then your
assertion. The CO2 duty – Frau Haßelmann has just said it,
subventions were cut – will not then rise around 30 euros per ton, but around
45 euros. Thereby will the inflation be further heated up next year, and this
business venue be further ruined. That is your policy, and that we will prevent.
That, I can promise you.
Ladies and gentlemen, Germany finally
needs a prosperity policy in the citizens’ interest. There is therefore finally
required an audit. Unnecessary spending needs to give way, and to that belongs
the entire theme complex of Ukraine. What I have heard here today really leaves
me to an extent stunned. Presently there is six billion euros yearly of Bürgergeld for 700,000 Ukrainians. To the
year 2027 shall be expended an additional 17 billion euros for weapons
deliveries and five billion euros for the reconstruction. And that – we have
heard today what you want to arrange at the European Council – also includes
the planned entry of the Ukraine in the EU. This will cost 130 billion euros;
the Institute for the German Economy has calculated that. As primary financier,
we will of course again need to finance that.
These expenditures should now before
all be defrayed from the regular budget. And here is seen how this Ukraine emergency
situation, which you today in principle have announced for next year, shall be
planned in the future: By overtaking future, eventual payments lapses of other
countries – this you have already today said. Here is seen
that we ever more become a war party. We really cannot allow that we continue
to impose ourselves in the Ukraine and make ourselves, as single payer and a
war party, co-responsible for misery and suffering in the region.
We presently see – let us peek
at the U.S.A.: The U.S. Republicans in the Senate block a package in the
billions for the Ukraine and for Israel, because the U.S. citizens plainly do
not want to spend more money for foreign wars. The German citizens also no more
want that. We need no invented enemy images and firewalls. We finally need – it
is what the economy also demands – reasonable parameters so that the remaining
businesses continue to produce here. Grasp tax reductions as investments!
Businesses and end consumers could figure on a relief of seven billion euros
were you, for example, to take back the increase of the [trucking] fee. So as
to justify your own budget, you continue to invent additional possible
emergency situations. For the hospitality industry, the emergency situation
ends in January of next year, and the complete value-added tax will again be
due. We say: Seven percent needs to be retained, because otherwise the 19 percent
will also apply for meals in day-cares and schools and here also prices for
families will further rise.
Valued Federal government, you
all flit through the political everyday. You have no concepts, no goals. Yet with
your chair circle policy, you have meanwhile again made hyper-morality and
black-white thinking socially acceptable [fähig].
You promise everything to everyone, and of that can thus passably hold to nothing.
And therefore, dear colleagues, it lies at hand: This Ampel – so long as it should exist – stands permanently in the red
and thus at a standstill. Germany requires change. Germany requires the
Alternative.
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
