René Springer, January 13, 2022, Sozial

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/11, pp. 620-621.

Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Frau State Secretary.

Let us speak of present problems. The inflation has reached a state of 5.2 percent. That is the highest value in almost three decades. The energy prices are going through the roof. The heating becomes a luxury for ever more people. Diesel on Monday was never before so expensive in post-war history. Commuters are out of, in the the truest sense of the word, sprit [gas, spirit]. The foodstuff prices have climbed around 6 percent, the lines at the Tafel become ever longer. And in this regard, the only one to be heard from in the Federal government is Cem Özdemir who demands increasing food prices. What is still required so as to acknowledge that this country is governed by a satisfied elite which has completely uncoupled itself from the people?

That it may be otherwise is indicated by a glance at foreign countries – France has capped the electricity and gas prices and introduced energy checks for 6 million households. Hungary has reacted, Austria has reacted, Poland has reacted; there is a fuel tax reduction to zero and foodstuff assistance for the poorest families. And Germany? Up to today, the Federal government has made use of not a single measure. It was much more important to name a queer commissioner who represents the interests of trans-sexuals. And you, ladies and gentlemen, fight as if in a pre-school over the seating order. What an embarrassment!

Ladies and gentlemen, embarrassing also is the connection with a central question of justice in Germany. The average pension of a woman with three children is at 751 euros. An unemployed Afghan, who has never paid a cent into our social system,

            Hermann Gröhe (CDU/CSU): Shame on you!

            Gerold Otten (AfD): Those are nevertheless facts!

has a claim – let us take Hamburg – to 944 euros in social assistance, 200 euros more than a woman who has provided a life’s achievement, who has built up the country, who has paid taxes and who has cared for future contribution payers.

            Britta Haßelamnn (Greens): Shame on you!

That is a disgrace for politics!

            Hermann Gröhe (CDU/CSU): You are a disgrace!

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): That is unbelievable!

It is a disgrace for governments which over many years and decades have promised social justice to the voters.

            Britta Haßelamnn (Greens): This, what you are doing, is a disgrace!

Around 40 percent of all Hartz IV recipients are foreigners.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): Stop with this agitation!

Almost 40 percent of all children living in Germany live in Hartz IV families – 40 percent! The increase in poverty in our country is almost completely the result of immigration.

            Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): Rubbish!

Acknowledge this reality!

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): This is impossible!

The policy of open borders is an attack upon our social state.

And you learn nothing, you still continue: Still more immigration, still higher social benefits, omission of sanctions. All of this cannot be the solution. These grants of money are an enormous pull factor for attracting additional poverty migrants to Germany.

Right honorable ladies and gentlemen, the tax money which you require for the financing of poverty migrants does not fall from heaven, but is produced by millions of normal earners who day by day are hard at work.

            Matthias W. Birkwald (Linke): If the migrant normal earner was no longer here,                    then you would look pretty old. Then here of course the lights go out!

At them for once you should take a look. You however do not take a look at these normal earners, you simply continue to fleece the people. Instead of offering measures against the inflation, you take yet more money out their pockets so as to finance your fantasies of rescuing the world. And in old age, you leave behind the people in poverty.             

            Britta Haßelamnn (Greens): Hate and agitation, that is the only thing you can do!                    Disgusting!

What a tragedy!

Ladies and gentlemen, it cannot thus continue. Follow the example of Denmark which is led by a social democratic government. Stop the poverty migration and finally make Sozialpolitik for your own people!

Many thanks for your attention.

 

 

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Fabian Jacobi, January 12, 2022, Bundestag and Basic Law

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/12, pp. 522-523.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

The Herr Justice Minister just three days ago wrote the sentence:

            Who lacks respect for the parliament, he also obviously lacks respect                                    for the people.

I today have the dubious pleasure for the first and foreseeably not for the last time as a member of giving a speech to the parliament yet not in the parliament.

            Florian Toncar (FDP): Yet you are in the parliament!

That earlier I sat up here was my free decision, a sign of solidarity with the people whom you ostracize, disenfranchise and degrade with your preventive measures.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): Oh my! Oh my!

Now the decision is taken from me. I am no longer allowed to set foot in parliament.

            Britta Haßelmann (Greens): Yet here you are!

The Bundestag members represent all the people, in any case according to the claim of the constitution. By dividing the parliament, your separation into clean and unclean made demonstratively visible, you negate the claim of the constitution in the parliament. Here, the Bundestag itself is lacking – in any case, its acting majority – in respect for the people. An evil omen for the new time which this new government, ja, has thought to introduce.

What now is to be expected of the coming new time from the Herr Minister’s department? The glance at the contract which you have concluded amply shows that we as the opposition will be very critically accompanied in the few things which could still be spoken of, and then there are the things in which no case will reality be allowed.   

Majorities come and go and laws which you conclude can later, when we stand before the ruins which this government will leave behind, also again be changed. It will really be dangerous when you begin to alter the constitution in the sense of your ideology. There were two plans for altering the Basic Law which already in the past legislative period were dealt with in the legal affairs committee, happily did not come to conclusion, yet will now again be pursued.

For one is the writing into the Basic Law of so-called children’s rights. It is now to be reckoned that it can be confidently excluded, after the author of the threatening dictum of the state command of the air above the children’s beds [staatlichen Lufthoheit über Kinderbetten] has become Chancellor, that something could thereby result other than an entry way for state encroachment upon the families.

The second is the plan to eliminate from the Basic Law the ban on racial discrimination. It shall, as you know, be replaced by a provision over discrimination on racist grounds. If it is now known that, according to the ideology of the presently ruling parties, racism is something which can be aimed exclusively against people of certain skin colors, yet never against people with other skin colors, then it is thereby clear to where this comes to: Human rights according to skin color. And with us, that is nothing doing.  

This will besides be the point with which the CDU, which according to the statements of many is on the path of rehabilitation and wants to again become a bürgerliche party, will find its touchstone. Against AfD and CDU/CSU, a change of the Basic Law is in any case not possible. We will see how the other opposition delegation aligns itself.

Many thanks.

 

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Albrecht Glaser, January 14, 2022, State Finances

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/12, pp. 725-726.

Herr President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

There should be more progress in the land. What is that and how should it go? The coalition wants a European state and with it the dissolution of the national state democracies. Here, in this Reichstag, will then be installed a government praesidium which executes the policy of an oligarchy in Brussels; on the theme of taxonomy you have, ja, provided a small foretaste. That in finances, state debts and currency, there is in the contract not once a “whatever it takes” subsection is apparently the central point of the coalition; in German: Money in not important.

The 2008 financial crisis was already a state debts crisis. The entire state was indebted with 2 trillion euros, the Bund 1 trillion euros of that – the highest debts since the founding of the state. Since then, the state has amortized nothing. The Corona crisis is the occasion to increase the current debts in the years 2020 to 2022 by almost 420 billion euros, thus by almost 50 percent. To this pertains 94 billion euros as a repayments obligation [Tilgungslast], predominantly for the debts of other EU states. This is a manifest violation of the EU treaties.

The extreme indebtedness is accompanied by the highest inflation since 1990 and a kaput common currency which is not even a shadow of the D-mark. On that account is the ECB building so big so that the over 4 trillion in purchased state loans can be deposited – likewise, a manifest violation of the EU treaties.

The citizens in Germany will be expropriated by inflation of 150 billion euros each year – of a couple of tax details pertaining to the the themes of tax relief or tax burden, one need not speak at all – with consequences for the old age security and all that depends thereon. For that, stones instead of bread will recommended: 48 percent standard pensions, no contribution increase and no increased age limit for entry into retirement. Who knows the least bit about pensions knows that this is Voodoo Land.

Apropos Voodoo Land: Afghanistan is over all. The new Finance Minister’s media glorification of the euro sounds like the former Foreign Minister’s description of Afghanistan shortly before its collapse.

            Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU/CSU): Na, ja!

The Finance Minister speaks of a “path-breaking reconstruction fund for Europe”. He does not mention that the yearly German contribution to the EU, currently at under 30 billion euros of much present interest, will increase in the coming years to over 60 billion euros. And in that regard, the chairman of the EU’s budget control committee speaks of a high probability of a diversion of reconstruction means, of manipulated grants and of a lack of possibility of control by the EU.

The coalition – I come to conclusion, Herr President – has no connection to reality, or they quite knowingly deceive the public concerning the fatal situation in this country. The greedy grab for public office is no basis upon which to politically survive in the coming four years.

Hearty thanks.

 

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Peter Boehringer, January 14, 2022, FDP

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/12, pp. 714-715.

Herr President. Good morning from here above to below in the plenary hall.

Minister Lindner, you have just explained the guidelines of your policy. Yet is it really your own policy? Have you spoken as an FDP politician or only as handyman of a green-red coalition in which you actually function merely as a majority maker?

Of the FDP positions prior to the election, almost nothing has besides remained. Abolition of the Soli? Unfortunately, no. Relief in regards the income tax? Refused. Maintenance of the debt brake? Nein, preferably instead an unconstitutional supplementary budget, moreover 100 percent financed by debt. This you have even seriously designated as generationally justified.  

Then the labeling swindle of the eco-social market economy, behind which is simply hid a planned economy under the dogma of the CO₂ ideology. Germany already today has the world’s highest electricity prices. A CO₂ zero emission means an extensive de-industrialization of Germany with destructive consequences for workplaces and prosperity.

And the ostensible relief is trick packaging. The giant EEG assessment will only be somewhat abolished pro forma, so as to then immediately increase by the roundabout of budget or duties. What is to be given to the citizens according to bureaucratic redistribution will again be taken from them around back.

Free market economy under the red-yellow-green climate dictate is soon nothing more at all: Yet more compulsion for windmills, yet more hydrogen utopias, a de facto obligation for E-autos, a ban on oil heating.

Germany in this regard is the only country worldwide which manages the madness of a simultaneous withdrawal from coal and nuclear power. While our neighbors construct green nuclear electricity with modern, risk-free technology, we turn off all that is tried and true. The Ampel instead just simply discovers in the coalition contract new, future markets on the ideological drawing board. As always in history, such planned ideological feasibility madness must and will fail. The abandonment of the private market economy will mis-allocate giant sums of capital as well as drive German businesses, production capacity and, in the end, capable citizens out of the country.

Yet thereby is not enough of the Unfreiheit. It appears no better in regards the theme of civil rights. Abolition of censorship by means of the NetzDG? Nothing in sight; quite the opposite. A no to compulsory vaccination? The FDP suddenly shares even in this. For physicians, nurses, soldiers and police, that was the first of all act of the Ampel. Shame on you!

Then the unspeakable 2G rule which compels us to speak here from the gallery, which is not part of the plenary hall, only because we, like millions of in any case discriminated people, persist in our right according to Article 2 of the Basic Law to bodily integrity.

How did Guido Westerweile say it in his farewell speech in 2011? “The threat to freedom in Germany…comes imperceptibly thence” and bureaucratically. So it is, and it comes from the interior of the FDP.

Many thanks.

 

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