Peter Boehringer, December 9, 2021, Economic Stabilization

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/6, p. 231.

Overdue is today’s proposed reduction in the thus far grotesquely high volume of guarantees of over 500 billion euros; we have plainly heard it here. It was, as per reckoning, set from 500 to 900 or 1,000 percent too high by Olaf Scholz. We are speaking of this here. This is now here corrected.

Yet profiting from the Economic Stabilization Fund [WSF], as we have just heard, are contrarily almost only those big businesses sought out according to political criteria.

            Andreas Schwartz (SPD): That was indeed the purpose!

Each workplace, such as those of the TUI [Tourist Union International], was subsidized with 125,000 euros from the WSF. And if the KfW [Credit Institute for Reconstruction] assistance credits are included which, ja, can in any case be guaranteed by the state through the WSF, then it is even 430,000 euros per TUI employee.

Thousands of small travel offices and tourist organizations, with this same law, would have been able to be saved by the state. They, however, were simply victims of Corona, for whom Olaf Scholz neither as Finance Minister nor as Chancellor concerns himself in any form.

Quite the opposite: In Germany today, millions of guiltless people are discriminated against by 2G rules lacking medical logic; since the vaccinated also are potentially infectious and they too occupy thousands of intensive-care beds.

            Leni Breymaier (SPD): So simple is the world?

A society is sick when people continually without symptoms need prove to be healthy, or indeed will be generally excluded for denying their own bodies to an increasingly ineffective and insecure method of vaccination. The AfD here today once again declares itself to be in solidarity with millions of people who daily unfairly suffer from this injustice and discrimination.

            Karsten Klein (FDP): Unsolidarisch!

We experience since March 2020 a politically made escalation: The healthcare emergency, statistically defined to a point and still promoted by means of premiums for the dismantlement of beds, becomes by means of a de facto compulsory vaccination a legal emergency, then by means of lockdowns an economic emergency, and then finally a budget emergency. We need to get out of this continuous loop. End the completely failed preventive measures against Corona and with that alone the budget and the economy will pull themselves together.

On the WSF construction: Exactly as during the financial crisis of ten years ago, we also hear again the dictum: “They are nevertheless mere guarantees…” [„Es sind doch bloss Garantien…”]; exactly like that time. That was besides at that time, exactly ten years ago, the title of an article which I had published on the first rescue of Greece. The guarantees of today are the credits of tomorrow, the write-offs of the day after, and in the end higher taxes.

And today again is the guarantee construct only a trick for the postponement in time of the meantime public agitation. By means of guarantees, the WSF’s hidden credits are partially lost. Yet you still do not say that to the people today. The KfW and the WSF will draw on these guarantees. The write-offs will then burden future taxpayers, but only after der Ampel [traffic light coalition]. And it happens – my last sentence, Frau President –  that with this disguise FDP Finance Minister Lindner exactly there continues where the Merkel Groko left off.   

 

Many thanks.

 

 

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Gerd Mannes, December 8, 2021, Energy Prices

Bavarian Landtag, Plenarprotokoll 18/100, pp. 147-148.

The badly botched energy transition represents a technological and economic rape of the energy system. Secure infrastructures will be battered and base load capable power plants scrapped, those which in the meantime have been erected with billions in investments. Briefly said: The government eco-fanatics’ energy policy is running amok. Their victims are the consumers, the taxpayers and our industry. By means of regulation, they make more expensive our conventional energy suppliers and then assert that the renewable energies will thus be more economic. The green demagogues thereby proceed to peddle that renewable energies were allegedly the more favorable energy supplier. That is a flat-out lie.

The Fraunhofer Institute yearly publishes the costs of production of electricity of all available energy technologies in Germany. In 2013, the Institute stated that brown coal with 40 euros per megawatt-hour was the cheapest energy supplier. Yet in 2021, brown coal electricity suddenly costs over 100 euros per megawatt-hour. Why thus is Germany’s most favorable energy supplier at once double so expensive?

The answer to the question is simple. You have with full intent ruined the economy of conventional energy suppliers with the emissions trade and the national CO₂ tax. With the planned economy feed priority by means of the EEG [Renewable Energy Law], you force step by step the load capable nuclear power plants out of the market. You have thereby in unbearable ways increased the costs of production of the conventional facilities.

This energy policy can only be designated as a careless manipulation of the markets and a wicked deception of the consumer. All of you here always say that you want to relieve the society. Yet today the state portion of the electricity price lies at 52%. All of you are thus responsible that each year up to 300,000 people will be shut off from the electricity. One SPD politician has recently said: The cheapest kilowatt-hour is that which is not consumed. – In this cynical statement may be seen how unsozial is the old parties’ energy policy. You all disconnect the citizens without any consideration. You are on an energy policy wrong way drive and it is high time the citizens were enlightened as to this insanity.

The AfD has a load capable solution for the energy price crisis caused by you. With our motion [Drucksache 18/18260], we demand the immediate reduction of electricity taxes to the EU minimum. We further demand that on the Federal level the CO₂ tax and the EEG be immediately abolished. By means of the abolition of the EEG assessment alone, we may relieve the consumers by around 30 billion euros annually. The elimination of the CO₂ tax would spare an average family in the future up to 1,400 euros annually. Let deeds also follow your promises and vote in favor of our motion.

Many thanks.

 

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Alice Weidel, December 7, 2021, Vaccination

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/4, pp. 201-202.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

This act is an unheard of over-stepping of boundaries. Hastily bungled, you want to push through important restrictions of basic rights. And that is a gross disregard of this parliament and the citizens which it represents. You thereby place yourselves in the ungute tradition of the preceding government.

Your choice of words, Herr Scholz, is revealing. “For my government, there are no more red lines”, you have said. That is the autocratic speech of those who scorn the constitution; this I need quite clearly say to you. The red lines are drawn by the Basic Law to which you wish to have yourself sworn in tomorrow. It is the citizens’ basic rights which you wish to shake off like a burdensome millstone around the neck because they are the citizens’ core rights of protection against encroaching actions of the state.

The repeated intensification of the infection protection laws is before all one thing: An epochal treachery and election fraud. Prior to the election, you promised the citizens something quite other – you, Herr Scholz, and primarily you, ladies and gentlemen of the FDP. At the beginning of September, you, Herr Scholz, had still said: A vaccination obligation is not proportionate. – You now present yourselves here and assert the plain opposite. You do quite a great honor to the FDP as a capitulation [Umfaller] party. For the grab for power, you have betrayed your voters. To be allowed to co-govern, you are ready to tread underfoot the basic right of bodily integrity, Article 2 of the Basic Law. And please do not ever again use the word “Freiheit”. You obviously do not know what it means.

The vaccination obligation for nursing staff, which you want to flog through here, is a slap in the face of those people who with self-sacrifice have done their work, those whom you have hypocritically applauded and who you now want to callously force out of their occupations if they do not subject themselves to these compulsory measures. A scandal!

As a result, the emergency situation in nursing is further intensified. This emergency situation is politically incurred and is already much longer than when we speak of Corona. The origins are a most badly botched hospital financing system as well as notoriously bad pay and work conditions. For years you know this.

The hospitals are not full on account of the non-vaccinated, but on account of your false policy due to which, in the middle of the crisis, thousands of intensive-care beds were simply removed, and to the 10,000 nursing staff already scared off.

And the society is not deeply divided on account of the non-vaccinated, but on account of your unseemly propaganda, your bureaucratic chicanery, senseless 2G, 3G-plus-minus rules, with which you discriminate against and ostracize a third of the population and play off the citizens one against the other – that is here nevertheless the truth –, and that on the basis of manipulated numbers in which patients with an unknown vaccination status are simply figured in with the non-vaccinated so that it appears more dramatic.

The citizens have every reason to scrutinize your chaotic policy and your contradictory preventive measures. The vaccination, which you here dogmatically extol as the only way out of the crisis, does not do what you and the manufacturers promised. And to divert from that, you want to stigmatize and criminalize citizens like me who decide against this medical encroachment upon their bodies.

            Martina Stamm-Fisch (SPD): Ja!

And on that account, we defend ourselves.

In a free democracy, blind obedience does not count but a citizen’s self-responsibility. Concern yourselves with your core duty, the maintenance of capable and crisis-proof healthcare, and leave it to the mature citizen how he protects himself and others.

I am grateful.

 

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Tino Chrupalla, December 3, 2021, Vaccination Obligation

AfD Kompakt, December 3, 2021.

The designated Chancellor Scholz is not yet sworn in and has already broken his word: Instead  of the promised new Corona policy courses without a lockdown, intensifications of the preventive measures and curtailments of basic rights on a hitherto unknown scale will now be announced to the citizens. Yet Scholz in November expressed himself as opposed to a general vaccination obligation. Now shall come the general compulsory vaccination which is nothing other than an unconstitutional government assault upon the bodily integrity of the people in this country who shall now pay for the striking failures of the German Corona policy since the beginning of the Corona crisis.

Germany, with Austria, would be practically the only country in Europe with a general vaccination obligation. This is the more absurd as the infection numbers already again decline and the ‘fourth wave” apparently already is again broken. Instead of vying with dubious infringements of basic rights, those governing in the Bund and States should preferably ask themselves why other countries, without such preventive measures and with comparable vaccination rates, are in a better position.

Scholz has now already completely lost his credibility. A general, direct, compulsory vaccination in Germany, as also with the 2G intensifications of a systematic ostracism and discrimination of healthy, non-vaccinated people and a forced division of our country, will be driven to the extreme – and will be with all power opposed by the AfD delegation.

 

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