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QVO VADIS Germany? The 2011 elections
This Year, the voters have nine times the word. In all the party headquarters thereat is hectic, hope and panic. The systemic crisis has driven since the end of 2007, the German and European debt, privately and publicly before all things, to absurd heights. By the end of last year in Europe almost 4600 billion € to support and guarantees for financial institutions and EU member countries have been made. "" The financial crisis has led Member States to provide huge sums to maintain financial stability, "EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in Brussels on Wednesday. Between October 2008 and October 2010 the EU approved detail aids the 27 Member States the financial sector, totaling 4.589 trillion euros. ". Commitments that eventually need to be redeemed by the voters. whether to expand the obligations are still not enough and soon to virtually unlimited levels. And, because no doubt, an investor and relevant economist, sooner or later, with the strongest Eu partners in Berlin will take.
The whole disaster is now to be sold by the coalition of the electorate as a success, during SPD and Greens, in view of the economically and politically hopeless situation and the still very recent ones own involvement in it, with relatively moderate tones and not much better "ideas for solutions" on voters to go fishing. There remain the boom far left and far right, the constellation of this sad now to political capital, and certainly are.
The Internet offers the opinion hungry today a lot of sources, including from the mainstream. Not every source is good, you have to work out here already have some media skills to distinguish between gold and garbage. The voter must also take care off the mainstream media for its information and opinions. Now and then a bit of political TV talk shows in the evening and a morning tabloid in response to the toilet that goes forward and not backwards. It is only a guarantee of opinion manipulation by the strongest groups in society.
In regard to the upcoming elections, but one should not neglect a source: the official party platforms of the German political landscape. Even if the papers are in their own right, first time, what else, they demonstrate precisely how ideas and intentions of the political leaders of each side have been sworn. And these key documents can be compared very well, and will allow the parties to take the, proverbial, word.
What appends all party platforms, however, is the enormous collection of platitudes, generalities and vague, verbal mists all kinds Especially when it comes to, here in this blog central question is the finances. One, in and of itself simple mathematical analysis of the tricky situation of course you can find anywhere. Not for nothing is for authors of popular science books of the principle that any text containing the formula to reduce the sales success of the publication by half. According
little can be found of the lower quality of party platforms, and of those who feel obligated and you are expecting. Just as an example the discussion of the "debt reduction" of EU countries. The term is sometimes unwittingly, sometimes deliberately used by the citizens to obscure the real content of the current measures. The issue is definitely not in all actions by a reduction of public debt, but merely a reduction of national debt that is currently nowhere to fall below the EU Genzwert of 3% annually. And even if we were to reach that illusory for the EU as a whole, value at the price of a de facto economic harassment of the creative (voting) population again, it would not change the exponential growth of debt in time nothing. The speed of increase will slightly decrease.
As evidenced by the party programs go so all parties of the center to the actual core problem namely, the complete identity of our monetary system of debt and assets, consistently out of the way . For economic debt reduction is also identical with asset reduction, whether relative (inflation) or absolute (currency reform), the mouse bites containing no changing that. At the point I want ever twine that there is a third way between the two extremes: a consistent wage and income policy, which causes a massive increase in the wages of the average consumer (!). Because that would automatically lead to a significant tightening of prices, and thus a relative increase in GDP in relation to the assets and liabilities. And would have the political advantage that would nominally take away anyone really something. However, one over the side effects of such a policy is not in the clear and the fear of the uprising of the economic and financial lobbyists is far greater than the fear or contempt, from the wrath of the voter.
What currently makes, but in fact is, however, the fourth way: to make business as usual at any price, no matter what the cost. At the price that the old world in the medium term drifts into chaos, and finally a "democracy without democrats" as well as in the 20's is transformed into a finite dictatorship. That may be the moment to grossly exaggerated pessimism sound, but it is the experience of history and has long been suggested to the concrete. Whether in the United States to a civil war is as close as modified in 1860, or in small countries such as Tunisia where it just goes right around. Even in the EU is the real acid test is still in its starting blocks this year and will reach even some one preliminary climax. The burned three bank employees in Athens last year may continue to warn us. An end is in sight .
particular, the established parties maintain their programs on their portals to hide really. First seen in most cases excessive advertising of the achieved "success" of recent years. In order not to remain stuck completely trivial, I have even asked for interested citizens together the current links, we walk again from right to left through the political landscape. Among the parties, I journeyman my comments, you obviously do not have to be so, because you can add your own opinions to like to make using the comment function here publicly.
The left and right I have in the back, first of all the parties of the center:
The FDP
is true that the German "Mittelstand party" a Several, in fact, substantial and ideas in their program. Well, well meant, however, is not necessarily done well.
For the envisaged recipes are still all the typical neo-liberal thinking of the (post-) Reagan-time arrested. The right program to can be found here (click on links and easy)
The main tenor is already found in the preamble. liberals ".... We rely on the willingness of people and a state that draws its strength from the restriction to its own domain. We appeal to all mature and responsible citizens prepared. They see for themselves what needs to be done and do not need any patronizing government bureaucracy. ".
Man wants to ergo probably doing most invisible, the market and the citizens should regulate everything itself. It could be that market liberalism, the coarsest outgrowth eventually resulted in the current debt-crisis, misunderstand almost as a call for anarchy. What really still for as parties and parliaments, when the market and all citizens can direct yourself? See why the FDP billion transfers from citizens to the ailing banks as "sovereign function" , on the program, however, remains to answer.
The CSU
On the portal Bayern will find no real program. One wonders at first if anyone here is acting haphazardly?
In this portal you will find links essentially advertising statements and platitudes, then under the tab fiscal policy, "Finance: Working sustainably means to preserve our livelihood and not to eat. ... This applies in particular to the financial and budgetary policy. Rate stable, high investment, full of growth and employment - despite the impact of the financial market crisis is for Bavaria's state Finance: The key to our future investment from the expansion of child care to education to research and Infrastructure will be carried out without compromising ... "
Otherwise, we must fight through the many messages, perhaps to extract one or the other rich. Otherwise, you only find with Google. The party program we are well hidden in the 8.th (!) Subfolders the portal hierarchy.
Legendary 197 pages of this brings to the series, and exceeds even to this extent, the Greens, who also come to an incredible 190 pages. All other parties are there to back lengths. Either live the CSU and the Greens in a different world, or the other parties have missed more than half of the political world?
Maybe it's only because the financial crisis never really occur at all. Page 18 we read: "... The lack of opportunities for many people in Germany are not primarily a consequence of globalization, but rather the result of political mismanagement ...." . Aha.
in self-confidence is not lacking accordingly. Page 32 we read: "The peoples of the world under contract to sustainable development. The CSU is pursuing that goal in Bavaria, Germany and at international level ".
One for All, All for One. Seehofer, the d'Artagnan of the FRG.
The CDU
The big sister is found after all, the Union coalition agreement as a key element. Read value of paragraph 1.2 "The way out of crisis": "... To quickly and effectively to eliminate obstacles to growth, we are immediately on an emergency program 1 January 2010 start. The loss and interest deduction limitations for both internationally established corporations as well as medium-sized enterprises to be defused. To this end, we will :....." , and then follows a series of facilities for corporate trader etc. pp. But not a single idea about the average citizen. From the program point explains the scraps "The loss and interest deduction limitations .. for internationally operating companies ... to be defused," as clear why one watches Sun idly by when so financially sound companies such as Honsel and now HOCHTIEF be vertitscht to foreign debt jugglers. At the very least a lack of consistency we must not accuse the CDU also.
may serve for more of meaning platitude the future concept of the party . On page 4 we learn that everything is back in its place: ".. The CDU has been chosen to lead wisely to Germany from the worst in 60 years of economic and financial crisis. In an impressive Community service has been achieved this. ".
Well, then we can go to the polls reassured.
The SPD
than any other party, the SPD rowing course looking through the landscape. After all, one must look not so long after the basic program the "party program". Thus, the SPD subtitles in their own right: "Program Party: This term refers to bundles of particular political demands of the SPD. Social democracy would always be more than a chancellor choice club in its long history. ". Classic may be true, but has in Steinmeier's SPD probably any one other of Many programs read. What does a rollercoaster without a pilot and eight oars, one for either direction?
dares After all, the SPD for the relevant program Hamburg Party has to address one of the key problems: "... have on the financing of governmental functions, businesses and households participate according to their efficiency. This means that we are committed to good progressive income tax. We want to break a just taxation of large estates and inheritances ...."
Schaunmermal how much rudder to the stern and even if it still finds a control.
The Greens
To talk culture, the Greens have never been embarrassed: That's her party program brings to an incredible 190 pages. Added to the 115-page, and because of "Stuttgart 21" is so important, election program in Baden-Württemberg we come to 305 pages more or less world-shaking information.
page 45 we read the approaches of the Florists: "We stand for the ecological modernization of the economy. Ecology offers an important growth sector .... ecological management creates new jobs. The green strategy of sustainability thus describes an economic model for success. " .
Sounds like FDP light, green painted, for the environmental industry lobbyists . Well then: good spades, the gardener is coming!
The left and right sides of the political spectrum are used as "last but not least:
The Left
The Left knows well known, yet not exactly go where they should, and therefore has a party program announced for 2011 and so far only available in the draft . As can therefore change the one or the other. That the movement to the left or from the bourgeois center, is to go in the wake of already adapted stromlinig Greens that can be said not sure.
is after all the draft without a long search to find and with 25 pages quite clear: "... The Left Party is fighting for a different, democratic economic system that subordinates the market control of production and distribution of the democratic, social and environmental context-setting and control . They must be set to public and democratically controlled property in the general interest, based on the social infrastructure in the energy and financial sectors, and the democratic socialization of other structurally relevant regions on the basis of state, municipal, cooperative or employee ownership and the private Sector subject to strict control of competition. ... "
Well, got it all? Well, that's the typical problem of the Left to express themselves in intelligible sentences, rather than summarized in one sentence the whole world formula do. And so it goes, of course, more fun.
The pages 14 and 15 deal then with our core problem: "... That in the past few years, explosive, having grown Investment banking is to handle, the proprietary trading and speculation in derivatives, banks are prohibited, as any business outside of their own balance sheet and business with companies or persons who are legally registered in tax havens. " . Otherwise, there are a number of ideas that you packed, at best, in more easy-care words, can find something like this in cross-section of all other programs of the FRG party.
is only with the difference that here everything seems to combine at a party and conveniently compressed into just 25 pages. So for those who likes it. Really left it all is not that one was 20 years ago, even at the SPD. To the left you need to make so little worry, at some point it goes to where the SPD in the 70's was about it. Even then it was called by the CDU "Freedom or socialism?" and, as we have long known, neither the A nor the other it has ever gone into the election campaigns of the FRG.
But that can still change:
NPD - The People's Union
The NPD has been renamed into "NPD The People's Union". This is due to the merger with the DVU, the writes to the mirror today: "... Otherwise, the DVU is not to get much: While the voters Frey'sche troops moved several times in national parliaments. In one of these battles material submitted to the state election in 1998 in Saxony-Anhalt, even for 12.9 percent of the vote. .... Several DVU members are expected to have a problem with the openly aggressive attitude of the NPD, their party was rather bourgeois. Much likely to be important for the NPD anyway Saxony-Anhalt. ... Holger Apfel, the NPD in Saxony cites, is responsible personally for the campaign in the neighboring region. Polls see them at four percent. In the election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Udo Pastörs struggles with his six deputies to the re-entry into the parliament. In the 2006 election, the NPD reached 7.3 percent there, the odds are not bad. It could, finally, three states with NPD MPs give ...."
the right program to they found .
Who ever threw a year ago a look at the former site NPD, which is the enormous professional presence of the NPD in this short time to jump into the eye. While the political and journalistic attention rages on strange lifted "communism" debates , the sinister rise of the bourgeois parties was right, however unnoticed.
with a good part of this in the secret financing of the NPD by major economic sectors. The Association of DVU and NPD, the party that is actually supplied with the highest political contributions (€ 1.181 million), as the web page Members Watch summarized for 2010. It is even ahead of the CDU (€ 1.103 million) and received more than three times as much as the SPD (€ 0.35 million) to large donations of 50,000 euros.
This is all the more surprising as the radicalism of the party program with the meaningful title "WORK. FAMILIES. MOTHERLAND. " just in financial engineering (!) Respects far incisive argument than any other party, including the Left together.
And that is an understatement beyond measure, it is far far in the shade. Because in the pages 8 to 12 we read about the financial engineering component things lapse into the left federal board to blush deeply and German talk shows usually unrestrained frenzy could be: "... The local small and medium-sized enterprises from the market power of large global corporations to protect .... Contrary to the notion of" free play of forces "of the state detached market, says the NPD for the active design a solidarity economy in order for .... As railway, postal, energy, water belongs in state hands. Production and service relocation abroad and the award of contract work in so-called low-wage countries or any Lohndrückerei by foreign workers in their own country ... to prevent the dominance of financial markets on the economy and the primacy of speculation before the Production are broken. This is a ban on hedge funds, mortgage-backed securitisations, the founding off-balance sheet special purpose entities, "short sales" and the use of derivatives necessary .... The German government takes appropriate measures to stop the exploitation by interest rates and the stock market and financial sector can regulate .... The NPD, the global free trade by systematically caused global competition strongly rejects .... ownership of German land be acquired only by Germans ..... Germany should have a single national currency and interest rate policy . ... Therefore calls for the NPD, the re-introduction of the D-Mark for a socially just Exchange rate .... To stem the unrestrained freedom of international capital calls for the NPD, the introduction of a national foreign exchange controls on capital exports and imports. ... Government guarantees for private banks will be rejected. The speculative abuse of the capital is clearly rejected. Usury shall be punished .... A reasonable property tax is part of the solidarity principle ..... tax provisions allowing companies to set off from Germany, the losses of its foreign subsidiaries against profits in the domestic tax are to be repealed without replacement .... The criminal law for tax evaders and fraud is to tighten up .... Membership in the Brussels EU foreign regulation system must be stopped ... financial assistance in the field of wholesale and key industries must establish ownership in the company of the state .... The NPD is committed to the introduction of a general, non sector minimum wage, ... Instead, a government-organized social model to establish where all Germans, regardless of income, participate ...."
And that and very, very much more together, to only 20 pages. A record, each record a hit, is the back pockets a sacred cow of the capitalist economy and democracy.
And at this point it is very strange. For it is a complete mystery why this party, the economic policy is still by a mile to the left of the Left, and the other in their party platform, just as you would have expected, even the far right of Sarrazin and his associates represents racist ideas that the party now experiences of all the most support from business circles.
So here is something completely out of control , just as we know it from the Weimar Republic, and its bitter end , nor too well. As the details but the same again! During the same time the political and journalistic elite of Germany grossly the K-word of the Left Gesine Lötzsch rants ready, apparently in the wake of old reflexes before the same social circles as it was 80 years of the coup.
The most exciting at this year's elections will be:
- If the FDP as far as losing favor with voters that she is a deserter in Berlin?
- If Merkel can assert their position or will there be new elections in 2012?
- Can berappeln the SPD?
- Or will the voters put more on the small parties, Greens, Left, NPD?
- can work toward the new NPD People's Union continues or gets it on the cold shoulder?
- is swinging in any of the currently relevant parties on a course that we actually a settlement of the debt-crisis brings closer, or is the house of cards mercilessly piled up to the "unexpected" collapse?
Well, in the 20th February there is the first mood test, the state election in Hamburg . At the last state election in 2008, the CDU was hefty 42.6%, the SPD to a meager 34.1%, followed by Greens 9.6%, Left 6.4%, FDP 4.8%, Other 2.5% . In addition to the ups and downs of the previous parties, I am naturally curious about the performance of the NPD candidate Torben adhesive. 2008 played the NPD left Hamburg in the more irrelevant, more so here would be an unusually good performance has a strong warning shot for democracy in West Germany. Whether
which would then include, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, I remain an Imperial "Schaunmermal" until the next blog. 
This Year, the voters have nine times the word. In all the party headquarters thereat is hectic, hope and panic. The systemic crisis has driven since the end of 2007, the German and European debt, privately and publicly before all things, to absurd heights. By the end of last year in Europe almost 4600 billion € to support and guarantees for financial institutions and EU member countries have been made. "" The financial crisis has led Member States to provide huge sums to maintain financial stability, "EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in Brussels on Wednesday. Between October 2008 and October 2010 the EU approved detail aids the 27 Member States the financial sector, totaling 4.589 trillion euros. ". Commitments that eventually need to be redeemed by the voters. whether to expand the obligations are still not enough and soon to virtually unlimited levels. And, because no doubt, an investor and relevant economist, sooner or later, with the strongest Eu partners in Berlin will take.
The whole disaster is now to be sold by the coalition of the electorate as a success, during SPD and Greens, in view of the economically and politically hopeless situation and the still very recent ones own involvement in it, with relatively moderate tones and not much better "ideas for solutions" on voters to go fishing. There remain the boom far left and far right, the constellation of this sad now to political capital, and certainly are.
The Internet offers the opinion hungry today a lot of sources, including from the mainstream. Not every source is good, you have to work out here already have some media skills to distinguish between gold and garbage. The voter must also take care off the mainstream media for its information and opinions. Now and then a bit of political TV talk shows in the evening and a morning tabloid in response to the toilet that goes forward and not backwards. It is only a guarantee of opinion manipulation by the strongest groups in society.
In regard to the upcoming elections, but one should not neglect a source: the official party platforms of the German political landscape. Even if the papers are in their own right, first time, what else, they demonstrate precisely how ideas and intentions of the political leaders of each side have been sworn. And these key documents can be compared very well, and will allow the parties to take the, proverbial, word.
What appends all party platforms, however, is the enormous collection of platitudes, generalities and vague, verbal mists all kinds Especially when it comes to, here in this blog central question is the finances. One, in and of itself simple mathematical analysis of the tricky situation of course you can find anywhere. Not for nothing is for authors of popular science books of the principle that any text containing the formula to reduce the sales success of the publication by half. According
little can be found of the lower quality of party platforms, and of those who feel obligated and you are expecting. Just as an example the discussion of the "debt reduction" of EU countries. The term is sometimes unwittingly, sometimes deliberately used by the citizens to obscure the real content of the current measures. The issue is definitely not in all actions by a reduction of public debt, but merely a reduction of national debt that is currently nowhere to fall below the EU Genzwert of 3% annually. And even if we were to reach that illusory for the EU as a whole, value at the price of a de facto economic harassment of the creative (voting) population again, it would not change the exponential growth of debt in time nothing. The speed of increase will slightly decrease.
As evidenced by the party programs go so all parties of the center to the actual core problem namely, the complete identity of our monetary system of debt and assets, consistently out of the way . For economic debt reduction is also identical with asset reduction, whether relative (inflation) or absolute (currency reform), the mouse bites containing no changing that. At the point I want ever twine that there is a third way between the two extremes: a consistent wage and income policy, which causes a massive increase in the wages of the average consumer (!). Because that would automatically lead to a significant tightening of prices, and thus a relative increase in GDP in relation to the assets and liabilities. And would have the political advantage that would nominally take away anyone really something. However, one over the side effects of such a policy is not in the clear and the fear of the uprising of the economic and financial lobbyists is far greater than the fear or contempt, from the wrath of the voter.
What currently makes, but in fact is, however, the fourth way: to make business as usual at any price, no matter what the cost. At the price that the old world in the medium term drifts into chaos, and finally a "democracy without democrats" as well as in the 20's is transformed into a finite dictatorship. That may be the moment to grossly exaggerated pessimism sound, but it is the experience of history and has long been suggested to the concrete. Whether in the United States to a civil war is as close as modified in 1860, or in small countries such as Tunisia where it just goes right around. Even in the EU is the real acid test is still in its starting blocks this year and will reach even some one preliminary climax. The burned three bank employees in Athens last year may continue to warn us. An end is in sight . particular, the established parties maintain their programs on their portals to hide really. First seen in most cases excessive advertising of the achieved "success" of recent years. In order not to remain stuck completely trivial, I have even asked for interested citizens together the current links, we walk again from right to left through the political landscape. Among the parties, I journeyman my comments, you obviously do not have to be so, because you can add your own opinions to like to make using the comment function here publicly.
The left and right I have in the back, first of all the parties of the center:
The FDP
is true that the German "Mittelstand party" a Several, in fact, substantial and ideas in their program. Well, well meant, however, is not necessarily done well.
For the envisaged recipes are still all the typical neo-liberal thinking of the (post-) Reagan-time arrested. The right program to can be found here (click on links and easy)
The main tenor is already found in the preamble. liberals ".... We rely on the willingness of people and a state that draws its strength from the restriction to its own domain. We appeal to all mature and responsible citizens prepared. They see for themselves what needs to be done and do not need any patronizing government bureaucracy. ".
Man wants to ergo probably doing most invisible, the market and the citizens should regulate everything itself. It could be that market liberalism, the coarsest outgrowth eventually resulted in the current debt-crisis, misunderstand almost as a call for anarchy. What really still for as parties and parliaments, when the market and all citizens can direct yourself? See why the FDP billion transfers from citizens to the ailing banks as "sovereign function" , on the program, however, remains to answer.
The CSU
On the portal Bayern will find no real program. One wonders at first if anyone here is acting haphazardly?
In this portal you will find links essentially advertising statements and platitudes, then under the tab fiscal policy, "Finance: Working sustainably means to preserve our livelihood and not to eat. ... This applies in particular to the financial and budgetary policy. Rate stable, high investment, full of growth and employment - despite the impact of the financial market crisis is for Bavaria's state Finance: The key to our future investment from the expansion of child care to education to research and Infrastructure will be carried out without compromising ... "
Otherwise, we must fight through the many messages, perhaps to extract one or the other rich. Otherwise, you only find with Google. The party program we are well hidden in the 8.th (!) Subfolders the portal hierarchy.
Legendary 197 pages of this brings to the series, and exceeds even to this extent, the Greens, who also come to an incredible 190 pages. All other parties are there to back lengths. Either live the CSU and the Greens in a different world, or the other parties have missed more than half of the political world?
Maybe it's only because the financial crisis never really occur at all. Page 18 we read: "... The lack of opportunities for many people in Germany are not primarily a consequence of globalization, but rather the result of political mismanagement ...." . Aha.
in self-confidence is not lacking accordingly. Page 32 we read: "The peoples of the world under contract to sustainable development. The CSU is pursuing that goal in Bavaria, Germany and at international level ".
One for All, All for One. Seehofer, the d'Artagnan of the FRG.
The CDU
The big sister is found after all, the Union coalition agreement as a key element. Read value of paragraph 1.2 "The way out of crisis": "... To quickly and effectively to eliminate obstacles to growth, we are immediately on an emergency program 1 January 2010 start. The loss and interest deduction limitations for both internationally established corporations as well as medium-sized enterprises to be defused. To this end, we will :....." , and then follows a series of facilities for corporate trader etc. pp. But not a single idea about the average citizen. From the program point explains the scraps "The loss and interest deduction limitations .. for internationally operating companies ... to be defused," as clear why one watches Sun idly by when so financially sound companies such as Honsel and now HOCHTIEF be vertitscht to foreign debt jugglers. At the very least a lack of consistency we must not accuse the CDU also.
may serve for more of meaning platitude the future concept of the party . On page 4 we learn that everything is back in its place: ".. The CDU has been chosen to lead wisely to Germany from the worst in 60 years of economic and financial crisis. In an impressive Community service has been achieved this. ".
Well, then we can go to the polls reassured.
The SPD
than any other party, the SPD rowing course looking through the landscape. After all, one must look not so long after the basic program the "party program". Thus, the SPD subtitles in their own right: "Program Party: This term refers to bundles of particular political demands of the SPD. Social democracy would always be more than a chancellor choice club in its long history. ". Classic may be true, but has in Steinmeier's SPD probably any one other of Many programs read. What does a rollercoaster without a pilot and eight oars, one for either direction?
dares After all, the SPD for the relevant program Hamburg Party has to address one of the key problems: "... have on the financing of governmental functions, businesses and households participate according to their efficiency. This means that we are committed to good progressive income tax. We want to break a just taxation of large estates and inheritances ...."
Schaunmermal how much rudder to the stern and even if it still finds a control.
The Greens
To talk culture, the Greens have never been embarrassed: That's her party program brings to an incredible 190 pages. Added to the 115-page, and because of "Stuttgart 21" is so important, election program in Baden-Württemberg we come to 305 pages more or less world-shaking information.
page 45 we read the approaches of the Florists: "We stand for the ecological modernization of the economy. Ecology offers an important growth sector .... ecological management creates new jobs. The green strategy of sustainability thus describes an economic model for success. " .
Sounds like FDP light, green painted, for the environmental industry lobbyists . Well then: good spades, the gardener is coming!
The left and right sides of the political spectrum are used as "last but not least:
The Left
The Left knows well known, yet not exactly go where they should, and therefore has a party program announced for 2011 and so far only available in the draft . As can therefore change the one or the other. That the movement to the left or from the bourgeois center, is to go in the wake of already adapted stromlinig Greens that can be said not sure.
is after all the draft without a long search to find and with 25 pages quite clear: "... The Left Party is fighting for a different, democratic economic system that subordinates the market control of production and distribution of the democratic, social and environmental context-setting and control . They must be set to public and democratically controlled property in the general interest, based on the social infrastructure in the energy and financial sectors, and the democratic socialization of other structurally relevant regions on the basis of state, municipal, cooperative or employee ownership and the private Sector subject to strict control of competition. ... "
Well, got it all? Well, that's the typical problem of the Left to express themselves in intelligible sentences, rather than summarized in one sentence the whole world formula do. And so it goes, of course, more fun.
The pages 14 and 15 deal then with our core problem: "... That in the past few years, explosive, having grown Investment banking is to handle, the proprietary trading and speculation in derivatives, banks are prohibited, as any business outside of their own balance sheet and business with companies or persons who are legally registered in tax havens. " . Otherwise, there are a number of ideas that you packed, at best, in more easy-care words, can find something like this in cross-section of all other programs of the FRG party.
is only with the difference that here everything seems to combine at a party and conveniently compressed into just 25 pages. So for those who likes it. Really left it all is not that one was 20 years ago, even at the SPD. To the left you need to make so little worry, at some point it goes to where the SPD in the 70's was about it. Even then it was called by the CDU "Freedom or socialism?" and, as we have long known, neither the A nor the other it has ever gone into the election campaigns of the FRG.
But that can still change:
NPD - The People's Union
The NPD has been renamed into "NPD The People's Union". This is due to the merger with the DVU, the writes to the mirror today: "... Otherwise, the DVU is not to get much: While the voters Frey'sche troops moved several times in national parliaments. In one of these battles material submitted to the state election in 1998 in Saxony-Anhalt, even for 12.9 percent of the vote. .... Several DVU members are expected to have a problem with the openly aggressive attitude of the NPD, their party was rather bourgeois. Much likely to be important for the NPD anyway Saxony-Anhalt. ... Holger Apfel, the NPD in Saxony cites, is responsible personally for the campaign in the neighboring region. Polls see them at four percent. In the election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Udo Pastörs struggles with his six deputies to the re-entry into the parliament. In the 2006 election, the NPD reached 7.3 percent there, the odds are not bad. It could, finally, three states with NPD MPs give ...."
the right program to they found .
Who ever threw a year ago a look at the former site NPD, which is the enormous professional presence of the NPD in this short time to jump into the eye. While the political and journalistic attention rages on strange lifted "communism" debates , the sinister rise of the bourgeois parties was right, however unnoticed.
with a good part of this in the secret financing of the NPD by major economic sectors. The Association of DVU and NPD, the party that is actually supplied with the highest political contributions (€ 1.181 million), as the web page Members Watch summarized for 2010. It is even ahead of the CDU (€ 1.103 million) and received more than three times as much as the SPD (€ 0.35 million) to large donations of 50,000 euros. This is all the more surprising as the radicalism of the party program with the meaningful title "WORK. FAMILIES. MOTHERLAND. " just in financial engineering (!) Respects far incisive argument than any other party, including the Left together.
And that is an understatement beyond measure, it is far far in the shade. Because in the pages 8 to 12 we read about the financial engineering component things lapse into the left federal board to blush deeply and German talk shows usually unrestrained frenzy could be: "... The local small and medium-sized enterprises from the market power of large global corporations to protect .... Contrary to the notion of" free play of forces "of the state detached market, says the NPD for the active design a solidarity economy in order for .... As railway, postal, energy, water belongs in state hands. Production and service relocation abroad and the award of contract work in so-called low-wage countries or any Lohndrückerei by foreign workers in their own country ... to prevent the dominance of financial markets on the economy and the primacy of speculation before the Production are broken. This is a ban on hedge funds, mortgage-backed securitisations, the founding off-balance sheet special purpose entities, "short sales" and the use of derivatives necessary .... The German government takes appropriate measures to stop the exploitation by interest rates and the stock market and financial sector can regulate .... The NPD, the global free trade by systematically caused global competition strongly rejects .... ownership of German land be acquired only by Germans ..... Germany should have a single national currency and interest rate policy . ... Therefore calls for the NPD, the re-introduction of the D-Mark for a socially just Exchange rate .... To stem the unrestrained freedom of international capital calls for the NPD, the introduction of a national foreign exchange controls on capital exports and imports. ... Government guarantees for private banks will be rejected. The speculative abuse of the capital is clearly rejected. Usury shall be punished .... A reasonable property tax is part of the solidarity principle ..... tax provisions allowing companies to set off from Germany, the losses of its foreign subsidiaries against profits in the domestic tax are to be repealed without replacement .... The criminal law for tax evaders and fraud is to tighten up .... Membership in the Brussels EU foreign regulation system must be stopped ... financial assistance in the field of wholesale and key industries must establish ownership in the company of the state .... The NPD is committed to the introduction of a general, non sector minimum wage, ... Instead, a government-organized social model to establish where all Germans, regardless of income, participate ...."
And that and very, very much more together, to only 20 pages. A record, each record a hit, is the back pockets a sacred cow of the capitalist economy and democracy.
And at this point it is very strange. For it is a complete mystery why this party, the economic policy is still by a mile to the left of the Left, and the other in their party platform, just as you would have expected, even the far right of Sarrazin and his associates represents racist ideas that the party now experiences of all the most support from business circles.
So here is something completely out of control , just as we know it from the Weimar Republic, and its bitter end , nor too well. As the details but the same again! During the same time the political and journalistic elite of Germany grossly the K-word of the Left Gesine Lötzsch rants ready, apparently in the wake of old reflexes before the same social circles as it was 80 years of the coup.
The most exciting at this year's elections will be:
- If the FDP as far as losing favor with voters that she is a deserter in Berlin?
- If Merkel can assert their position or will there be new elections in 2012?
- Can berappeln the SPD?
- Or will the voters put more on the small parties, Greens, Left, NPD?
- can work toward the new NPD People's Union continues or gets it on the cold shoulder?
- is swinging in any of the currently relevant parties on a course that we actually a settlement of the debt-crisis brings closer, or is the house of cards mercilessly piled up to the "unexpected" collapse?
Well, in the 20th February there is the first mood test, the state election in Hamburg . At the last state election in 2008, the CDU was hefty 42.6%, the SPD to a meager 34.1%, followed by Greens 9.6%, Left 6.4%, FDP 4.8%, Other 2.5% . In addition to the ups and downs of the previous parties, I am naturally curious about the performance of the NPD candidate Torben adhesive. 2008 played the NPD left Hamburg in the more irrelevant, more so here would be an unusually good performance has a strong warning shot for democracy in West Germany. Whether
which would then include, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, I remain an Imperial "Schaunmermal" until the next blog.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Brownies No Brown Sugar
TandemVipera New Year's greeting: Alternative Loser Wutbürger
My New Year's greeting this year is little late and I would like to thank all the readers for the approximately 32,000 visitors of my blog last year. I hope you all have happy holidays and, this time literally, had a happy new year 2011. This year will be my blog mainly with the economy and politics, not only in Germany deal. Just 10 days old is the year and it is already quite remarkable happened.
The German Society for language has the "Wutbürger" to the word of the year. "Wutbürger" stands for the outrage in the community, "that political decisions are taken out of their sight." The Wikipedia describes the Wutbürger "... as a wealthy conservative people, the" not young ", formerly left and a" state-supporting "but now" is outraged about politicians. " He break "with the bourgeois tradition that the political center also includes an inner focus, "such as calmness or composure."
"Wutbürger" which is the Stuttgart 21 protesters, in large part not the seemingly typical Profiprotestler, but the Normalo- citizens. The rather humble to be put on the annual Wahlkreuzchen political blank check to the spontaneous demonstration right dared to use. But he added this year to select the best options:
2011 elections: 2/20/2011 state election in Hamburg, 20.3.2011 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, 27.3.2011 state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate , State elections in Baden-Wurttemberg, local elections in Hesse state election in Bremen 22/05/2011, 09/04/2011 state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony in local elections 09/11/2011, 18/09/2011 House of Representatives election in Berlin. Nine elections, which will provide plenty of entertainment. And of course, will be the warranty, not only for many political folly and unintentional comedy, but also to secure political and populist nonsense at virtual standstill with respect to real progress.
"no alternative" would actually be my favorite for a word of the year was. It is said to be yes no alternative, the citizens through boundless, both in terms of their height and nationality, financial transfers to take off from the bottom up to the periosteum. This carnage is no alternative in 2011, all claims to the contrary notwithstanding, and achieve even abstruse new highlights.
slip first time among the other EU colleagues, ultimately West German rescue : "Germany and France, Portugal, according to a press report in the magazine Euro-rescue. It would be to Greece and Ireland, the third state, which can help the rest of the euro countries. " Potugal course is just another domino that is as factually bankrupt such as Iceland, Ireland and Greece. But even the big countries, Spain and Italy this year there are huge sums refinance old debt to replace them by even higher new debt, and will get for strangling interest demands. The extension of the "emergency parachute" to virtually unlimited levels is virtually certain. And, even the strongest in the league, the FRG and thus the Germans, but are straight. As part of the election year, it will be interesting to see whether the bourgeois parties this year at all times comes to mind, the sole profiting capital side of society with some over trifles beyond and to bring immediate and participation in the cost of your rescue.
China wants to jump in here happy. Because Beijing has 2.6 trillion dollars and euros in turn have values before beginning the descent may be correct. China will try as much as possible to the bonds, due place. The risk that the Greek gift was adopted in the EU, is great. And the EU will in the future as dependent on China to make grace, as the United States already is.
But not only the EU is on a knife edge, and the U.S. a few steps in front of the abyss : "... What does Barack Obama? The U.S. president, political have taken a severe, leaves the U.S. Federal Reserve increasing dollar amounts of tilt in the economy. Funds that do not stay in the U.S., but barely controlled slosh around the globe. Want to ruin the U.S. dollar as world currency? ... The situation is dangerous: China, Brazil, Japan and other countries have announced retaliatory measures against the flood of money from the U.S., "
The Secretary Geithner before U.S. bankruptcy warned might have only been a disturbing political maneuver. may be, as the U.S. finally print as much money as they want and need. But the have to the teeth armed U.S. Wutbürger already a warning sign set: I've "..." always suspected, "best-selling author Alisa Valdes, who lives in Albuquerque in the neighboring state of New Mexico says, but spends much time in Arizona. "The next U.S. civil war will break out in Arizona."
"Jared L. Lee, American Hero," postulated time on Sunday, a new Facebook page, in allusion to the alleged shooting death of Tucson. "Begin The man who fired the first shots of the U.S. Civil War of 2011. Let the revolution!" . That there was a job of this "hero" outside the U.S. probably more appropriate: Korea, Japanese Islands, Taiwan, Iran, enough possibilities with the main creditors to put China and the plight employment and improve the Arizona youth.
2011 will therefore be an eventful year. Because of the fabled nine elections, it will go to Germany quite round. Compared to other countries, we will endure this but economically relatively well, because in addition to China and emerging countries, we are still preliminary at the top of the world economy.
Nevertheless On the northern axis of Washington-Berlin-Moscow-Beijing will be made in 2011 paved the way for far-reaching shifts in power. Funds, which are printed on paper promises between states, citizens, Investors and military powers, promises that are the best will no longer be covered and must be broken definitively. Only at whose expense and at what price is the question as quickly as possible, elections or not to be answered. This is the biggest financial crisis in history not later than in the 2020s opens into a global superpower war depends on the ability or inability of democratic politicians, not least in Berlin, the untenable promise of a world out of joint financial order should be redefined. 
My New Year's greeting this year is little late and I would like to thank all the readers for the approximately 32,000 visitors of my blog last year. I hope you all have happy holidays and, this time literally, had a happy new year 2011. This year will be my blog mainly with the economy and politics, not only in Germany deal. Just 10 days old is the year and it is already quite remarkable happened.
The German Society for language has the "Wutbürger" to the word of the year. "Wutbürger" stands for the outrage in the community, "that political decisions are taken out of their sight." The Wikipedia describes the Wutbürger "... as a wealthy conservative people, the" not young ", formerly left and a" state-supporting "but now" is outraged about politicians. " He break "with the bourgeois tradition that the political center also includes an inner focus, "such as calmness or composure."
"Wutbürger" which is the Stuttgart 21 protesters, in large part not the seemingly typical Profiprotestler, but the Normalo- citizens. The rather humble to be put on the annual Wahlkreuzchen political blank check to the spontaneous demonstration right dared to use. But he added this year to select the best options:
2011 elections: 2/20/2011 state election in Hamburg, 20.3.2011 state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, 27.3.2011 state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate , State elections in Baden-Wurttemberg, local elections in Hesse state election in Bremen 22/05/2011, 09/04/2011 state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony in local elections 09/11/2011, 18/09/2011 House of Representatives election in Berlin. Nine elections, which will provide plenty of entertainment. And of course, will be the warranty, not only for many political folly and unintentional comedy, but also to secure political and populist nonsense at virtual standstill with respect to real progress.
"no alternative" would actually be my favorite for a word of the year was. It is said to be yes no alternative, the citizens through boundless, both in terms of their height and nationality, financial transfers to take off from the bottom up to the periosteum. This carnage is no alternative in 2011, all claims to the contrary notwithstanding, and achieve even abstruse new highlights.
slip first time among the other EU colleagues, ultimately West German rescue : "Germany and France, Portugal, according to a press report in the magazine Euro-rescue. It would be to Greece and Ireland, the third state, which can help the rest of the euro countries. " Potugal course is just another domino that is as factually bankrupt such as Iceland, Ireland and Greece. But even the big countries, Spain and Italy this year there are huge sums refinance old debt to replace them by even higher new debt, and will get for strangling interest demands. The extension of the "emergency parachute" to virtually unlimited levels is virtually certain. And, even the strongest in the league, the FRG and thus the Germans, but are straight. As part of the election year, it will be interesting to see whether the bourgeois parties this year at all times comes to mind, the sole profiting capital side of society with some over trifles beyond and to bring immediate and participation in the cost of your rescue.
China wants to jump in here happy. Because Beijing has 2.6 trillion dollars and euros in turn have values before beginning the descent may be correct. China will try as much as possible to the bonds, due place. The risk that the Greek gift was adopted in the EU, is great. And the EU will in the future as dependent on China to make grace, as the United States already is.
But not only the EU is on a knife edge, and the U.S. a few steps in front of the abyss : "... What does Barack Obama? The U.S. president, political have taken a severe, leaves the U.S. Federal Reserve increasing dollar amounts of tilt in the economy. Funds that do not stay in the U.S., but barely controlled slosh around the globe. Want to ruin the U.S. dollar as world currency? ... The situation is dangerous: China, Brazil, Japan and other countries have announced retaliatory measures against the flood of money from the U.S., "
The Secretary Geithner before U.S. bankruptcy warned might have only been a disturbing political maneuver. may be, as the U.S. finally print as much money as they want and need. But the have to the teeth armed U.S. Wutbürger already a warning sign set: I've "..." always suspected, "best-selling author Alisa Valdes, who lives in Albuquerque in the neighboring state of New Mexico says, but spends much time in Arizona. "The next U.S. civil war will break out in Arizona."
"Jared L. Lee, American Hero," postulated time on Sunday, a new Facebook page, in allusion to the alleged shooting death of Tucson. "Begin The man who fired the first shots of the U.S. Civil War of 2011. Let the revolution!" . That there was a job of this "hero" outside the U.S. probably more appropriate: Korea, Japanese Islands, Taiwan, Iran, enough possibilities with the main creditors to put China and the plight employment and improve the Arizona youth.
2011 will therefore be an eventful year. Because of the fabled nine elections, it will go to Germany quite round. Compared to other countries, we will endure this but economically relatively well, because in addition to China and emerging countries, we are still preliminary at the top of the world economy.
Nevertheless On the northern axis of Washington-Berlin-Moscow-Beijing will be made in 2011 paved the way for far-reaching shifts in power. Funds, which are printed on paper promises between states, citizens, Investors and military powers, promises that are the best will no longer be covered and must be broken definitively. Only at whose expense and at what price is the question as quickly as possible, elections or not to be answered. This is the biggest financial crisis in history not later than in the 2020s opens into a global superpower war depends on the ability or inability of democratic politicians, not least in Berlin, the untenable promise of a world out of joint financial order should be redefined.
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