Jörg Meuthen
Basic Pension
AfD Kompakt, November 11, 2019
[Jörg Meuthen is a national
chairman of the Alternative für Deutschland and he leads
the AfD’s delegation
in the European Parliament where the AfD belongs to the Identity and Democracy
party.]
The SPD has had its way. The Social
Democratization of the CDU goes on uninterrupted. The waiving of the means
testing impressively evinces this. To save the coalition and hold onto power,
the Union is evidently ready for everything. With the waiving of the means
testing for basic pensions, similar demands in other areas threaten the social
security, which would destroy the social state principle. This total sell-out
of ordnungspolitischer principles
should now be acknowledged, honestly and without illusions, by the last,
reasonable CDU politicians and voters. The CDU has finally arrived at Social
Democracy.
Throughout the entire basic pensions debate,
the cartel parties for decades have emphatically made retirement policy promises.
Instead of getting a grip on the root of the problem, a set screw within the
existing, decrepit retirement system is unfortunately turned, social
demogoguery is foisted at the cost of succeeding generations, and then this is
even sold as great retirement policy. In a total panic, time is played for,
which fortunately is running out, indeed for the SPD as well as for the Union.
[Translated
by Todd Martin]
