The dismantling of social welfare is accelerating.
Many food banks, where people in need collect their food, are no longer accepting anyone; they are completely full.
Many pensioners have hardly any money left to spend once they've paid their monthly rent and electricity bills. Soon, they'll also have to pay for heating. The cost of basic necessities has risen dramatically; clothing and holidays require a longer period of saving.
- The government plans to restrict healthcare;
- The closure of hospitals continues unabated.
- The fee schedule for self-employed doctors has not been updated for over 30 years.
- The cheapest personnel from other countries, from Asia and Latin America, are brought in; communication seems unnecessary, gestures and facial expressions should suffice.
- The black-red coalition wants to reintroduce co-payments for doctor's visits,
- The first day of illness, or several days of illness, will no longer be fully paid.
- And the retirement age is to be delayed.
For all the atrocities that primarily affect the lower classes and the lower middle class, they form a grand coalition encompassing the CDU, SPD, Greens, and Left Party, eagerly fueled by the FAZ, SZ, Spiegel, and television newsrooms. In front of the cameras, they explain that this or that should be changed in the laws, as do the seemingly recalcitrant CDU members, only to then agree out of "political responsibility." The respective parliamentary group leaders ensure that they all agree like sheep.
In emergencies, payments are also made; Kohl had funds for that purpose. However, this is usually unnecessary, as the parties only appoint men and women to positions who consistently support the party line.
Now the party leaders of the four parties consider rearmament and militarization necessary; therefore, everyone must join in the chorus that "Putin will soon invade Germany."
- if the government had not ordered six thousand tanks at a unit price of twenty-eight to forty million euros.
- Furthermore, the USA has ordered bomber planes worth several billion euros that can drop bombs "deep in the Russian hinterland".
- And maintaining the largest army in Europe, with 400.000 soldiers, will also cost many billions annually.
Naturally, these costs would exceed any reasonable federal budget. That's why this pension charade is being staged. The elderly are being pitted against the young, and we're being accused of "living beyond our means."
The social climate is incomparable to that which existed before the coronavirus catastrophe. Germany is unrecognizable: militarization is accompanied by repression from the judiciary, and television and the press march in lockstep. The abolition of gender differentiation is used to feign liberalism, while house searches are on the rise.
The Nazis didn't need to feign liberalism; after 1933, they could push through their war economy just fine without it. But they quickly built concentration camps where political opponents disappeared. Today, Germany needs a so-called "state of tension" to trigger such a scenario. The lockdowns and the vaccination campaign served as a dress rehearsal. Should bankruptcies increase and unemployment continue to rise, we are not far from this scenario.
Sarah Wagenknecht on Twitter on December 21, 2025:
"It's a scandal that more and more pensioners are dependent on social assistance. #PovertyInOldAge is already a huge problem in our country, and it will become even more so for today's young generation. It's insidious how the generations are being pitted against each other in the pension debate. Pension insurance contributions aren't higher today, but lower than 20 years ago. And every missed pension increase for today's pensioners also creates a gap in the pension statements of young people. We demand €200 more in pensions per month for everyone – in both East and West! We propose a pension package against poverty in old age with a pension increase, a reduction in contributions, and tax exemption for pensions up to €2000. This would increase net pensions for all pensioners by an average of around €200 per month. To achieve this, we want to increase the tax subsidy, which is lower as a percentage of GDP than it was 20 years ago, by €30 billion per year and finance it through savings in the massively inflated defense spending of recent years."