Marc Bernhard, December 1, 2022, Home Ownership

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/73, pp. 8602-8603.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

In Germany, 75 percent of renters dream of their own four walls. Yet only the fewest have succeeded in also realizing this dream; since, according to the ECB, the Germans are the poorest in the euro zone. Thus, the assets of an average Greek family are double as high as that of a German family, in Spain and Italy even four times as high as with us. And in regards the pension level, Germany with just 48 percent is far behind. Spain, for example, has 83 percent, Austria 89 percent and Italy even 91 percent.

We have the world’s highest energy prices, and we have with just 45 percent the lowest rate of home ownership in the EU. Here in Berlin it is even just 15 percent, while in France 64 percent, in Italy 72 percent, in Greece 76 percent, in Czechia 80 percent and in Slovakia even 92 percent live within their own four walls. The European cut thus lies over 70 percent. We thus have not only the highest energy prices, the smallest household assets with the lowest pension level, but also the lowest home ownership rate in the EU.

Now the inflation also devours the rest of the citizens savings. It is therefore now certainly much more important to bring as many people as possible within their own four walls. Since this is the best inflation protection, the best safeguard for elders, and provides in crises like today’s stability and security to people. And therefore we want to make Germany from a land of renters into a land of homeowners.

Yet then why is Germany at all the taillight in the EU’s home ownership rate? The German Bundesbank states in a study that for one thing it lies, in international comparison, in the much too high real property sales taxes [Grunderwerbsteuer]; and for another, that the mortgage interest, unlike as in many other countries, cannot be deducted even for the self-use dwelling. Yet that was once in Germany otherwise, as in the administration of Helmut Kohl, – it is already quite a while – the costs for one’s own home could be deducted from taxes. That then made home ownership possible, despite astronomical rates well over 10 percent.  

We demand in our motion [Drucksache 20/3204] that the real property sales tax be lowered to 3.5 percent throughout Germany, and before all, that the purchase of one’s own first home must be completely free of taxes. That would of course finally eliminate the social injustice that large capital companies pay practically no real property sales tax, while the normal citizen always needs to pay for everything.

In addition, the prices for home ownership need again to become affordable. For that, the construction guidelines and the cost-driving climate guidelines are to be reduced, the contract procedures accelerated and the rural area finally again made more attractive. Since while in the urban centers 2 million affordable dwellings are lacking, 1.7 million dwellings in rural areas stand empty.  

Let us finally do it like our European neighbors and as the German Bundesbank recommends: With one’s own four walls, we attain for the people inflation protection, an old age safeguard, stability and security. Let us finally make Germany from a country of renters into a country of owners! 

 

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Bernd Baumann, December 2, 2022, Immigration and Residence

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/74, pp. 8745-8747.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

The government today puts forward two draft laws and has a third ready in cabinet.With these, it wants to make immigration to Germany even easier, it shall become even simpler to receive a German passport. In current polling, two-thirds of the people reject that. Respect that! Stop this policy!

            Kassem Taher Saleh (Greens): No!

Hundreds of thousands of migrants ought already to have left Germany because they have an obligation to depart. Their asylum grounds have been ultimately rejected because they were often only feigned. The Ampel now does not want to deport them all; it now wants to ultimately keep all in the country. From illegal shall become legal – what a mockery of the state of law!

Worse still: Tens of thousands of officials needed to work for years on the asylum procedures. Magistrates, state attorneys, police thereby spent millions of work hours and now comes the left-green government and says: All of that simply no more interests us. All asylum seekers remain here. What disdain for the state’s servants, ladies and gentlemen!

The government’s new cabinet draft goes still further: Foreigners no more need to have lived in Germany for eight years until winning a German passport; in the future, five years suffices, in many cases even three. Why so short a time period? Because the Syrians of 2015 can also quickly become German – almost one million –

            Filiz Polat (Greens): Who now already have been naturalized!

in addition to hundreds of thousands of Afghans, Iraqis, Moroccans, Somalis, Senegalese. All shall become German – the total sell-out!

That is nevertheless not allowed to be, ladies and gentlemen.

To make German citizenship even more tasty for the migrants, they are allowed to retain the old passport. Dual citizenship becomes the norm. Even for the illiterates, there are new rules for quick naturalization. Even Oriental marriage relations with countless wives are no more reason for prevention.

            Helge Lindh (SPD): Man, man, man!

All of the laws aim in the same direction: All may come, all may remain, to become German. What a flagrant invitation to the entire world! No other country does it so, ladies and gentlemen.

Why do you do it thus? Skilled labor comes, you have said. In that regard, all the numbers prove the contrary: Almost 70 percent of Syrians live on Hartz IV, and seven years after their arrival; for Somalis, Afghans or Ghanians it is similarly dramatic.  

Thus: Why do you do this? “Humanitarian grounds”, you have said. We need to help those seeking shelter. For the Ukrainians, that is right; here, women and children flee. Yet most of the migrants of the last years come from the Orient and Africa, predominantly young men.

            Clara Bünger (Linke): Fake news!

Even EU commissioner Johansson now concedes: The great majority require no shelter; they come for economic reasons, like for example Faisal S., who lately said in the press: “I came in ten days from Damascus to Dresden for 6,500 dollars”, – verbatim, he further says: “Everyone now wants Germany, if he can raise the money” – for the traffickers. Such people come to Germany.

            Petra Sitte (Linke): Fake news!

There are all too often no humanitarian grounds. In the mass come neither skilled labor nor those in need of shelter. Yet the Ampel government opens further the sluices, against the will of the Germans: 80 percent demand better border defense. Agree to that! Respect that!

There remains the pestering question: Why do you do that? Even as a member of the Hamburg parliament I had wondered, as a Green member spoke thereon, that in a few years the Germans will be in the minority in their own country.

            Christina Baum (AfD): Yet that is what they want!

And they add, verbatim: That is good so.

Frau Göring-Eckardt, for many years Green delegation chairman here in the Bundestag, said during he 2015 refugee stream – I cite: “Our country will change, and indeed drastically. I am glad of it.”

            Bruno Hömel (Greens): Yet it is so! All changes!

And the chief of the Grünen Jugend spoke of a – I cite: “disgusting white majority society” which she no more wants.

            Lamya Kaddor (Greens): The misanthropy definitely comes from you                                    and not from us!

Alone since 2014, over eight million foreigners came to Germany. The Linke and Greens rejoice; here, for them, a great project will be implemented for which they long: A transformation into a quite different republic which threatens to dissolve all that we name “our homeland”, ladies and gentlemen.

            Lamya Kaddor (Greens): Rubbish!           

           Clara Bünger (Linke): Conspiracy theory!

This transformation is more radical than most citizens can imagine and from it, if it continues, there is no more a return. It is the ideology of an anonymous, diverse world society, a leftist utopia, a health concept of which the motto runs: “No borders” – keine Grenzen mehr – , “no nation” – keine nation mehr, primarily no German one – “one world” mit mehr Diversity, that is, diverse.

            Erhard Grundl (Greens): You cite John Lennon!

All in all mingled, limitlessly colorful, mixed, all achieved by open borders, migration and accompanying quotas, compulsory quotas. We do not want this great transformation [Umgestaltung], this leftist chimera. We do not want it and it ought not to be in Germany, ladies and gentlemen.

This left-green experiment of a rainbow world society also proceeds with speech bans, with cancel culture against all critics, meanwhile with allies in all social organizations: In churches and schools, in print media and public broadcasting, in parties and parliaments and now even in sport. The German national team has been ruined by hours-long discussions concerning a rainbow on the upper arm. We do not want that the German nation is also ruined, ladies and gentlemen.

Two-thirds of all people in Germany say they no more trust to openly state their opinion. University professors cry out because they can no more freely do research. Actors and writers are openly pressured, they should show an attitude in the sense of an ideology. And over all waves the rainbow flag.

            Irene Mihalic (Greens): You have forgotten the Einhorn!

Which plainly does not stand for the state of law, which does not stand for freedom and human rights. It is the leftist symbol of a diverse, colorful, compulsory society. The colors of the leftist rainbow do not stand for the freedom struggled for in German history; for that stand black, red gold. Those are the colors of freedom and democracy. Those are our colors, ladies and gentlemen.

            Bruno Hömel (Greens): For whom do you speak? You do not speak                                        for the Germans!

            Thorsten Frei (CDU/CSU): Yet neither you!

 

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Gottfried Curio, December 1, 2022, German Citizenship

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/73, pp. 8538-8539.

Frau President. Ladies and gentlemen.

The prerequisites for the acquisition of German citizenship are completely razed. Integration requirements: Down! Basic knowledge of civics: Down! Time periods: Almost halved. The intended target groups are thereby in no way either economically or culturally integrated. That is indeed unfortunately the reason for ever again lowering the requirements for residence, for citizenship. Over-proportionately represented are receipt of social assistance, criminality, a forgoing of education. All these problems of the immigrants shall be hushed up with a sleight of hand by which the numbers will be incorporated into the total German population. In that regard, according to a poll, two-thirds of Germans want no simplification of naturalization [Einbürgerung]. Yet the government, with Brecht, asks: Would it not be most simple to abolish the people and select another?

The Ampel now takes that seriously. It wants to make faits accomplis and, as to the foreigners imported and fed since 2015, finally also direct their voting. After just five or even three years they receive citizenship. The language and Einbürgerung test will simply be eliminated for those who for long are here, with whose knowledge of German it is apparently preferable not to reckon. Arrangement in the German lifestyle? No more a theme. Islamic polygamy? No problem. Yet an Islamization does not occur. Poor Germany, ladies and gentlemen.

            Lamya Kaddor (Greens): Are you called “Ahmet”, or are you still not Islamized?

Merkel sowed in 2015. Now is harvest time.

            Lamya Kaddor (Greens): What is that then for a motto?

When sufficient new citizens have been created, the interdiction of the German journey begins. The German voter population shall be determined by an army of foreign social assistance recipients. First, half the world will be enticed by increased social benefits – here, sold as the tear-inducing “refuge” – , then all the unentitled receive the residence permission as an “opportunity”, then, simply by expiration of time, the German passport. The whole is a coup d’état in the voter demography, ladies and gentlemen.

Minister Faeser asserts: He who wants a passport gives a strong avowal for Germany, says yes to a free society, Basic Law and equality of rights. Nein, he does not say it. He much more accepts the right to vote so as to change the country. And as a sign that full integration is simply no more a prerequisite, that the right to vote can be much more easily seized in the short-term, the whole is in form an anti-integration law.  

Thereby he who takes in hand the right to decide the direction of the country should actually be a democracy pro. Yet the people come from a political-cultural circumstance which is entirely foreign to our concepts, which will certainly quite clearly not intensify these ideas in five or indeed three years, if at all. In truth, it needs be turned around: First must a real integration ensue, and be an endeavour for citizenship – and not the other way round.

            Götz Frömming (AfD): Jawohl! That is so!

            Till Steffen (Greens): You must first integrate yourselves!. That would help!

No pain, no gain. You are squandering the passport on the insufficiently integrated. That is a construction program for parallel societies, ladies and gentlemen.

             Till Steffen (Greens): You are the parallel society!

Accordingly, any reason for a more rapid acquisition of citizenship cannot at all be named. To now want to rapidly name simply all as Germans only shows a contempt for one’s own people. Of identification with the nation, its values, history, culture – not a word. In the coalition contract is wanted a campaign which extra advertises for acquisition of citizenship. That need is obviously greater on the part of the parties than in regards those actually addressed. It is about a presumed choice of the voters for one’s own party. For that, the fate of Germany is sold dirt cheap. Comrades without a fatherland, like it is in the book, ladies and gentlemen.  

The Chancellor complains: Nine million citizens live and work without citizenship. – The truth: Of almost 12 million, 4.5 million work. Yet not only the quantity is lacking but also the quality. He should be naturalized who decides for identification with Germany.

            Konstantin Kuhle (FDP): Then you need to be deprived of citizenship!

What does one do for that? The double passport is made the rule, the plain opposite. Which means the Basic Law, with the people, is not first of all origin and bearer of the nation’s statehood. These plans are plainly unconstitutional.  

The FDP – at a low in the polls – which already gave the nod to this in the coalition contract, now suddenly simulates a bellyache. Yet only the time point is not acceptable; they find the content okay. Ladies and gentlemen, since 2005 we have a net emigration of Germans, yet immigration is drummed up. Pure population replacement! The most frequent comment below articles for an Einbürgerung offensive is: I emigrate. – No wonder should one trample underfoot the country when departing.

Yet the Chancellor knows: For the most concerned, the Einbürgerung celebration belongs to what he has experienced. Devoid of all substantial argument, one falls back on a sob story. It becomes an evil when one hears so much emotion: You should consider voting for German citizenship. – He means of course: Voting for the SPD.

The fact is: The more foreigners immigrate and are naturalized, the more Germans emigrate because the taxes to finance the fun are too high. The whole is a unique skilled labor expulsion law. It is the Ampel for foreigners. Yet no one need vote for it; since there is still the Alternative for Germans.

I thank you.

            Till Steffen (Greens): Good night!

 

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