Posted on 08/24/2025 8:35:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for a reform of Germany's social welfare spending while ruling out tax increases on medium-sized companies.
The comments, made at a state-level party conference of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Lower Saxony on Saturday, will likely be seen as paving the way for further contention with his government coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD).
What did Merz say about cutting welfare?
"The welfare state that we have today can no longer be financed with what we produce in the economy," Merz said in the town of Osnabrück.
The coalition partners had already agreed to reforming the social insurance system, which covers health insurance, pensions and unemployment benefits, due to rising costs and gaps in the federal budget.
The chancellor acknowledged that making cuts to social welfare would not be easy for the center-left SPD, but called for the two parties to work together.
At the same time, he stressed there would "not be any increase in income tax on medium-sized companies in Germany with this federal government under my leadership," despite SPD Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil earlier saying that tax increases on middle and higher-income earners could not be ruled out.
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couldn’t they solve their financial problems by confiscating everything owned by any Jews who still live in Germany? ... There’s a precedent for that ...
Perhaps a notorious German was born in the wrong century.../s
So? I guess it's like being on the Titanic and you're trying to avoid the iceberg.
Running out of other people’s money.
I suspect USAID NGO dollars now cuttoff were funding the Wests intentional demise.
Bring back Angela Merkel!!! /s
Y’all started a war that destroyed millions.
The world made sure you could not do that again.
I loath all the deaths, but you guys started it and the winners finished it!
> I guess it’s like being on the Titanic and you’re trying to avoid the iceberg. <
It’s more like being on the Titanic, and you’ve already hit the iceberg. And then you’re okay with hitting more icebergs.
More unproductive and violent Muslim immigrants, please!
Germany’s deficit 119 billion Euros 2024.
2.8% of GDP.
Q2 GDP growth -0.3%. Q1 growth +0.3%. 0.2% Q4 2024.
-0.3% for all of 2023 and -0.2% for all of 2024.
They hope to ramp up defense spending, to x% of GDP, and while gov’t spending is an increase in GDP in the equation, they face the reality that the money they spend will go to the US for weapons.
GDP = C(onsumption) + G(overnment Spending) + I(nvestment) + (Exports - Imports) And that defense spending in G is all going to be Imports. This will be crushing because it will be borrowed money on their deficit.
The years past, pre 2022, they had reasonable GDP growth of 2-3%. No longer. The loss of the Russian nat gas source has been devastating. LNG costs 4X what piped gas costs.
And that differential is in the (Exports - Imports) part of the equation.
This is not a government philosophy problem taxes and spending. This is physics. The **system** can’t work without the same supply of natgas they were getting before.
They need good jobs to get them off the public dole.
Good luck with that in a recession net-zero economy.
This.
“How will this affect Muslims and migrants? Is he signaling something?”
Since the PRIME DIRECTIVE of virtually all of Europe is now population replacement, Germans will just have to understand that their Safety Net is gone and they are now Second-Class Citizens and their new arrivals will be first in line for benefits.
Kind of a bummer for Germans, and they also have to understand that money is needed to prepare their government’s planned war against Russia in 2029, which will also add to the misery of Germans.
Sooner or later, you run out of other people’s money.
Well gosh, if you kicked out that invading Muslim army Merkel invited in a few years ago......
Germany has been trapped by Marxism. Their government takes from the rich and gives it to the have-nots. They are now in the sage of running out of other people’s money. This is when government gets wicked.
Islam began with robbing the caravans, stealing the goods and selling the women in the sex slave market.
It's almost as though having open borders and a welfare state were incompatible!
Wer hätte das gedacht?!
Regards,
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans
by Noel Coward
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans,
When our victory is ultimately won
It was just those nasty Nazies
Who persuaded them to fight
And their Beethoven and Bach
Is really far worse than their bite.
Let’s be meek to them,
And turn the other cheek to them
And try to bring out their latent sense of fun.
Let’s give them full air parity
And treat the rats with charity,
But don’t let’s be beastly to the Hun.
We must be kind, and with an open mind
We must endeavour to find a way
To let the Germans know that when the war is over
They are not the ones who have to pay.
We must be sweet, and tactful and discreet
And when they’ve suffered defeat we mustn’t let them feel upset
Or ever get the feeling
That we’re cross with them, or hate them.
Our future policy must be to reinstate them.
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans,
When we’ve definitely got them on the run.
Let us treat them very kindly
As we would a valued friend
We might send them out some bishops
As a form of lease and lend.
Let’s be sweet to them,
And day by day repeat to them
That sterilisation simply isn’t done.
Let’s help the dirty swine again
To occupy the Rhine again,
But don’t let’s be beastly to the Hun.
We must be just and win their love and trust
And in addition we must be wise
And ask the conquered lands to join our hands to aid them,
That would be a wonderful surprise.
For many years, they’ve been in floods of tears,
Because the poor little dears have been so wronged
And only longed
To cheat the world,
Deplete the world,
And beat the world to blazes.
This is the moment when we ought to sing their praises.
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans,
For you can’t deprive a gangster of his gun.
Though they’ve been a little naughty
to the Czechs and Poles and Dutch
I don’t suppose those countries really minded very much.
Let’s, be free with them and share the BBC with them
We mustn’t prevent them basking in the sun
Let’s soften their defeat again,
And build their blasted fleet again,
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Hun.
Don’t let’s be beastly to the Germans,
When the age of peace and plenty has begun.
We must send them steel and oil and coal
And everything they need,
For their peaceable intentions
Can be always guaranteed.
Let’s employ with them and, sort of, strength through joy with them
They’re better than us at honest manly fun.
Let’s let them feel a swell again,
And bomb us all to hell again,
But don’t let’s be beastly to the Hun.
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