Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Götz Frömming, January 18, 2023, Education and Immigration

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/78, pp. 9339-9340.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable colleagues. Right honorable Frau Minister.

We today discuss the National Education Report put forward by the authors’ group in May 2022. It is therefore no longer quite dewy fresh, yet that actually is not so bad, ladies and gentlemen; since what we read in this National Education Report, we all actually knew quite well before. And, yes, it is not the only report we have in the area of education. It would be well to be named: Today, the School Barometer is to appear. We have the IQB Education Trend, we have the PISA Countries Comparison, etc. etc. Only, ladies and gentlemen, it needs be said: …the sow, alas, becomes no fatter, and we for long already, Frau Minister, have no knowledge deficit but, dear colleagues, we have a management deficit.

In that regard, I want to mention a couple of points to you. Not far from here, in Pankow, recently schoolchildren with their parents demonstrated for the renovation of their school. What then is that about? I thought that was only in a third-world country, yet it occurs in the middle of Germany. The renovation backlog for school buildings is figured at some 40 billion euros. One billion – we have just now heard – shall now be grandiosely made ready. Yet recently there was 100 billion for weapons. That is a disproportion, ladies and gentlemen.

In addition, we have a massive deficit in personnel. And here it is lamented that 40,000 teachers are lacking. That has not only to do with the Corona preventive measures, but also with the massive influx from the Ukraine. 200,000 students plus x more: The colleagues in the schools cannot simply teach these with the left hand. Here, something must urgently happen, ladies and gentlemen.  

I cannot omit mentioning the following case which goes back just a few weeks. In Ibrenbüren, Nordrein-Westfalen, a 17 year-old young man stabbed his teacher. The silence in this case is deafening, ladies and gentlemen. I unfortunately need also say to you: That is not a single instance. As we know, violence against teachers in the schools massively increases. A third of principals in a survey have reported that they know of violence by students against teachers – it is besides frequently female teachers. In Nordrein-Westfalen, where this young man, by chance with a migration background, stabbed his teacher, it is even almost half of all schools. Also here must something urgently happen, ladies and gentlemen.

What you do, in this and in other cases, can actually only be named continual assistance [unterlassene Hilfeleistung]. In that regard, there are opportunities to improve the situation in the schools.

Let us come to speak of what in fact happens in education in the schools. We know in which States it is working. Those are by happenstance the States in the south of our country. Bavaria and Saxony are dong quite well. In all comparisons, Bavaria and Saxony are at the fore. Yet now for once it needs be recognized: What makes Bavaria and Saxony different? There is there a differentiated school system. There, the Hauptschulen have not been thrown into the waste basket

            Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Nay!

and outside just the shield is unscrewed in the belief that thereby everything will be better.  

            Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Exactly!

It is differentiated. There is a Grundschul recommendation and there is at least a minimal standard of authority and discipline. That is, I think, also a key for learning success.

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, respect for the teacher belongs to that,

            Daniela Ludwig (CDU/CSU): Right!

exactly of course as respect for the student belongs to that. Yet of these things, apparently in your view out-dated, you want nothing more to know.

Beyond that, we need to return to education and knowledge instead of gender and inclusion at any price. In concluding – and this well accords with the debate: We also need to provide our immigration policy with education criteria.

            Vice-president Yvonne Magwas: Please come to a conclusion.

A further immigration from uneducated classes can our education system no longer bear [Eine weitere Zuwanderung aus bildungsfernen Schichten kann unser Bildungssystem nicht mehr vertragen]. And thereby is no one served.

Many thanks for your attention.

 

[trans: tem]

 

 

 

Monday, January 23, 2023

Karsten Hilse, December 15, 2022, Oil Embargo and Bautzen

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/76, pp. 9056-9057.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen. Dear countrymen.

In May of this year, there was an economy destruction minister, formally a children’s book author, who made known to an astonished German public that on December 22, 2022, Germany will join in the oil embargo against Russia and will receive no more oil through the pipeline for purely ideological reasons; since the acquisition of oil through the pipeline was by the EU sanctions expressly admitted for all.

As was made clear to him that the eastern German refineries, primarily the PCK Schwedt, would then need to stop production whereby the supply of fuel and lubricants and chemical intermediary products would be collapsed throughout eastern Germany, he sent his not a little well endowed waiter who promised the blue or green heaven to the displaced people of Schwedt: Crude oil would continue to come to Schwedt, if in the meantime in smaller quantities; the jobs of around 2,000 employees would be secured by a job guaranty. He then crowned the whole with the sentence – cite: “Here, the lights do not go out immediately”, which means that they then go out later.

This point in time appears now to have come; since none of the promises made were fulfilled. Neither were the replacement oil deliveries by contract with Poland secured, nor were the corresponding transport means for the required quantities built. A comparable quality of crude oil is at the moment not deliverable. Solely the jobs guarantees – that is, money for doing nothing – were brought well on the way. Yet even that is not sure.

In other words: The green Federal government has planned and implemented the equivalent of the Neurippen state’s attorney now classifying the “Last Generation” climate terrorists as a criminal association, placing this under indictment and conducting house searches of the climate terrorists. The foregoing is based on the repeated efforts to stop the crude oil supply of the PCK Schwedt – thus, the exact same thing that the Federal government is doing.

The Neurippen state’s attorney bases his proceedings on that it concerns the formation and support of a criminal association according to §129 of the criminal code and that the group evidences a “clear role distribution and a continuous structure”. Here also, the similarities are not purely accidental. The only difference is that the Federal government is the executive of a state of law, yet more and more re-interprets, indeed abuses this law.

In this connection may Pope Benedict be recalled when a good eleven years ago here in the Bundestag he wrote to the members in the album, if in another connection, the words of Saint Augustine – cite:           

            Take away the law – what then is the state other than a great band of robbers..

And he was right.

            Bernhard Herrmann (CDU/CSU): Shameful!

           Stefan Schmidt (Greens): That is below even your level!

Yet there is something positive. The warnings to the conservative forces in the Union apparently have provided for a partial reconsideration; since in your motion, which today is brought in for the PCK Schwedt, you find fault not only with the lack of replacement quantities of agreed quality and at fair prices, but also before all with the absence of any legal basis for the embargo. The embargo and all sanctions thus need to go. That this is possible with this government is held by many citizens to be excluded. They hold this government, plainly because it whistles at law and statute, to be – cite: “a great band of robbers”.

The only way to make reasonable policy for Germany is when the conservative forces are finally gathered together, as occurred in my constituency of Bautzen this week. In the local council, almost the entire CDU delegation voted for an AfD motion to eliminate voluntary integration benefits for rejected asylum applicants; and thereby, first, relieve the budget and, second, turn down the magnets for asylum claimants. This example hopefully sets a precedent [macht Schule] in all of Germany, for Germany.  

Sepp Müller (CDU/CSU): You can proceed on the basis that it will not be!                        Definitely not, not for us!

 

 

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Thomas Dietz, December 2, 2022, Hospitals, Labor and Immigration

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/74, 8809-8810.

Right honorable Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

Hospital care in Germany presently stands before the horrifying result of the years’ long ignorance of the ruling policy in regards this fundamental area of a sozial society. Now already, necessary care measures often cannot be implemented with the needed expenditure because there is a shortage of time, personnel or the corresponding training. It comes to an implicit rationing; care of patients, surveillance of patients, conversation with relatives and a correct documentation are scarcely still to be appropriately realized.  

The actual care work is increasingly hollowed out because our highly qualified and well trained care staff need to undertake duties which could be ensured by other personnel. The nurses need to concern themselves with the sick, and ought not to serve as a collection and delivery service, as cleaning staff or as full-time documentation staff.

The discontent resulting therefrom ever again ends in the flight of qualified staff to other professions. The more than unjust Corona care bonus law, in regards to which many co-workers came out empty-handed, has led to further displeasure – thus to a devilish circle which cannot be broken if you are not able to answer the question of how you want to obtain more personnel.

In the discussion of the draft law in committee, in regards my proposal, it came to one of the usual cries of the left-green bloc: “And more immigration!”  That means: So as to solve the problems in the hospital care, we need, according to the red and green view, additional immigration.

            Kordula Schulz-Asche (Greens): Of course we need it!

            Nicole Westig (FDP): For all!

            Götz Frömming (AfD): Exactly, the others who cling to the staff!

Yet that exactly is your psychological problem, valued colleagues. You believe to be able to solve with immigration all the problems which in the last decades in Germany have piled up to a Kilamanjaro. Germany is long since no more an attractive immigration land for foreign skilled labor.

Kordula Schulz-Asche (Greens): We have demographic problem! We have a demographic problem because women were prevented from combining career and children!

I am speaking here.

The taxes and duties in this country are much too high and the working conditions too poor.

            Götz Frömming (AfD): That is the truth! Place 13, behind Roumania!

Yet Germany is meantime the most attractive immigration land for sozial refugees.           

Kordula Schulz-Asche (Greens): Yet who have no care training. On that account, this plays no role here!

Our European neighbors and friends meantime fill special trains so as to bring these people for free. We need now state: That out of this potential of two to three million immigrants of the last years,

            Christos Pantazis (SPD):  We are speaking on a hospital care relief law!

we could not once obtain sufficient skilled labor to sort the baggage at the airports, to say nothing of trained care staff with the absolutely indispensable knowledge of the language.

I want here to explicitly mention the nationwide study “I may nurse again, if…” of the Bremen employees chamber of April 2022 with more than 12,000 questioned.

            Heike Engelhardt (SPD): The theme!

In this was said: There might be at least 300,000 full-time nursing staff in Germany as a result of a return to the profession, or by making available an additional increase of working hours in so far as the working conditions were improved. You have managed, at a time in which there was a personnel shortage, to force thousands out of the profession by means of the institutionalized vaccination mandate, and to intimidate others from becoming active in this area. There continues to be a slackness in hiring because the illegally institutionalized vaccination mandate still runs to the end of the year and was not previously set aside.

If you do not now grasp healthcare and nursing as one of the core duties of the state, we will unavoidably slide into the care catastrophe, and you will be asked who is responsible for that a once so exemplary healthcare system as that in Germany could be so seriously damaged.

Therefore, do justice to your duty, take responsibility, and appropriate more money for our healthcare system.

Many thanks.

 

[trans: tem]