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!

 

 

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]

 

           

 

Tino Chrupalla, December 14, 2022, Diplomacy and Emigration

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/75, pp. 8872-8874.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen. Dear countrymen.

Herr Merz, you have replied to the Herr Chancellor’s speech that you are amazed because parts were lacking. What I with all my previous speakers have not heard in regards your speech is that you have scarcely a word for our own country, that you have scarcely a word for the worries and needs of the German people. That actually expresses all.

The past EU-ASEAN summit meetings have of course already shown us one thing: The states do not want to decide between two trading partners. They meanwhile therein have some advantage over us and Europe. They of course consider the cooperation to be led by interests, instead of being separated by sanctions.

China, ladies and gentlemen, belongs to Asia: Geographically, culturally and economically. There are generally also differences there. Which nevertheless can be considered in common, without instrumentalizing the entire publicity in one direction or the other. Thus can each keep face and thus will misunderstanding be avoided. These in the last months have been perceived quite often enough as confrontations. Precisely that, dear colleagues, is to be avoided. We need cooperation eye-to-eye. No one wants to first occupy himself with the ideological approaches of his counterparts. For a peaceful world, a respectful acquaintance is the first step.  

Certainly the present situation in Germany shows that we as a country without raw materials and with high inflation cannot generally allow ourselves to issue fixed economic sanctions in the name of a so-called – we have, ja, heard it again today – feminist foreign policy. This instrument harms Germany even so effectively as its citizens. And exactly that must have an end.

Already for long we no longer speak just of Russia. By means of reporting on domestic policy confrontations, the Federal government sends out signals to unfavored countries. This at the least provides for astonishment to the point of incomprehension there; since for decades – this also needs for once to be said – one communicated reasonably, diplomatic standards were maintained and economic exchange was fostered. Those were the guidelines of German foreign policy in the last decades.

At the latest with this Ampel government, ideological teaching hours vis-à-vis other nations and cultures are meanwhile on the daily order. One just decides between good and bad, between black and white. So I ask you: Can you, ladies and gentlemen, actually imagine that this vote will meanwhile be taken as hostile?

Timon Gremmels (SPD): Therefore we obtain LNG from Qatar, or what? This is just rubbish!

I ask you: To whose use is that? Do you think that helps the local people in the countries?

Yes, the conducted conflicts are in parts also violent, which we as the Alternative für Deutschland also do not defend. Yet is one a better, more trustworthy partner when one wants to actually cause from without a perhaps violent regime change? Of course not. You position yourselves – and thereby Germany – permanently and completely apart. That contributes to peace neither in the region nor the world, yet it exploits the German citizens. With your policy you separate the world into two halves, unilaterally shoot down Germany and thus drive further forward the de-industrialization.

You meanwhile continue the long since agreed upon course of the Merkel government. That Germany as a business venue is already for years ever less attractive is shown by the rising number of firms which have already emigrated or plan to do so. These numbers are alarming and needed meanwhile also to be a matter for the Ministry for the Economy. Thus could be read in the FAZ of November 30 of this year that, according to a survey of the Federal Statistics Office of 600 Mittelstand businesses, 20 percent already have concrete plans to leave Germany and that is not the beginning: From 2018 to 2020, 1.6 percent of German firms already went that way – thus, long before the events of the year 2022. 

Timon Gremmels (SPD): Following the entrance of the AfD, the businesses left the country!

           Götz Frömming (AfD): That was obviously the reason!

Very considerable for the business sectors are those which with priority were shipped out, among which were goods production and its sales; yet also research and development. The last know-how, the last raw material – research and development – thus meanwhile emigrates.

Do you really understand the signals? I do not know. First were production processes shipped out of Germany, and the policy said: We are becoming a service society; that was the announcement here.

            Christian Petry (SPD): Nonsense!

Yet that too meanwhile belongs to the past. And service providers will be shipped out more and more. So I ask you: Why at all should a business still settle in Germany? This question can you no longer at all answer. The causes of course are clear – though you scarcely mention them: High social duties, the tax burden which is too high, bureaucracy and of course not least the high energy prices which directly contribute to that soon this economic sector no longer exists and that Germany will no more be in the circumstance of an economic nation.

We indeed daily see examples here in Berlin. Manual work operations like bakeries close and the restaurant trade can no longer make an offer because the workforce is lacking – and in a major city of the Bund.

            Daniela De Ridder (SPD): A reason for migration!

Go to your constituency, in so far as you at all have one, and look for once at the local situation. Can you still at all actually reconcile your voters to this downfall? If the emigration which, ja, will no longer be put in context is for once considered, it is seen: Since 2014, almost 250,000 Germans each year leave this country. That was up to the year 2020, 2 million German contributors

            Daniela De Ridder (SPD): Still a reason for migration!

who have left this country. And you ever again speak of immigration. The reasons for that you should for once ascertain; since it is a scandal.

You may believe me that the citizens day by day see and experience the consequences of your destructive policy; since this policy also leads our country into the energy policy deadend. With your decision to ban from Germany baseload-capable energy carriers like coal, gas, yet also nuclear power, you withhold from citizens and businesses a continuous energy supply. And no, you can plainly not influence the present dark doldrums as well as a reasonable energy mix which we of the AfD have ever again demanded. You of the Federal government more and more become the drivers of the inflation.

            Timon Gremmels (SPD): Atomic power is no energy mix!

You are the principal cause of inflation in Germany.

Therefore: Make the energy policy turnabout! Finally make policy for Germany and for the citizens! You have the duty, even in difficult times, to work for realistic political solutions. Stop; instead of wanting to ever again enforce your ideologies with new, threatening scenarios. We, the opposition, will ever again obligate you to make policy for the welfare of the German people. We, the opposition of this sovereign house, have the duty to critically accompany your government policy. That is the core of our democratic parliamentary order, and not to flatter you on the government bench with warm words. You yourselves do that well enough every day.

Many thanks for your attention.

 

[trans: tem]