Posted on 08/24/2025 11:09:07 AM PDT by Rummyfan
The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said on Saturday.
The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn (£40bn).
In a state-level party conference meeting on Saturday, Mr Merz said: “The welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what we can economically afford.”
Once the export champion of Europe, Germany’s economy has slowed dramatically since 2017, with GDP growing by only 1.6 per cent since then versus 9.5 per cent for the rest of the eurozone.
Germany’s economy shrank by 0.2 per cent last year following a 0.3 per cent dip in 2023 – the first time since the early 2000s the economy has retreated two years in a row.
Industrial production fell under the Left-leaning “traffic light” coalition of Olaf Scholz and continues to slide under the new government, with GDP declining by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2025.
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Mertkel started it now Merz has to deal with it.
...as Milton Friedman said in 1997, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare state.”
“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”
Man’s gimmicks never stand in opposition to God’s laws of faith and freedom and economic laws of supply and demand.
How’s that. I thought it was a democracy’s strength, attracting future achievers, like the immigrant geniuses who made America Great in the past, the refugees of European fascism. Why isn’t it working this time? It’s a real puzzle.
For being the “Master Race”, Germans never seem to learn.
“From each according to his ability; to each according to his need.”
Germany just figured out that the core concept of Communism doesn’t work. They should have figured this stuff out when the East Germans came over to West Germany and saw that things were much better. Because communism doesn’t work.
Maybe — just maybe — try secure borders, small government, free enterprise, personal rights and individual freedom. I know: nothing like anything Germany has ever tried. But that stuff works.
It depends on the US and UK’s Deep States funding money to the EU.
Pres. Trump has cut off the flow of outs.
The UK has refused to do the same.
But the UK’s cash cows alone can’t keep the EU afloat.
I mean look at what we got the Fermis and von Neumanns and the Bohrs father and son and a host of other criminals either before Hitler arrested them or in many cases letting them out on a warning.
Do they think that people who do not need to be concerned about buying food or paying their bills will just show up to collect the household waste. Will go and stock the shelves at the grocery stores. I’m sure that there are people who just can’t wait to get up every morning and go and wrangle up the shopping carts and return them to the front door of the store.
Alistar MacLean had a recent interview where he said the long bond rate indicates economic collapse for Germany.
Not a surprise since their energy supplies are disastrous.
Green religion claims another victim plus Russian energy was cut off.
Europe should be watching the policies of President Trump. Or let them self-destruct without our weapons and boots.
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Now they have a low birth rate. And they don't have enough immigrants to maintain their welfare state. Plus they've dismantled their nuclear plants.
In The West they produced Mercedes, BMWs, Audis, VWs, even Opels.... In The East they made Trabants .... and you had to wait three years to get one!
They need another Adenauer.... I don’t know if there is one.
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