Now we finally arrived in the new year. I am available and have many plans. Except: I can no longer listen to the radio. Because that would just end in frustration. Here are a few emotional ideas on the news of Sylvester and these days. There is quite a lot I no longer understand.
The Sylvester rockets took at least four lives in Germany. They became victims of pyrotechnic. We do not know how many lives the Sylvester gluttony cost. The total damage done during the Sylvester night this year, too, seems to have been especially high. What I mean is not the many fire crackers that have been uselessly and intentionally destroyed, but the subsequent damage.
But we shoot rockets, ignite firecrackers and fear terrorism and a “De-Europezation”. And Islam. “Pegida” plays a central role in all the news. Both for our Federal Chancellor and the labour associations. They do not want Pegida.
But only because it is bad news for the economy.
I, too, dislike Pegida. But my reasons are that it is inhumane, stupid and fundamentalist.
Yet the politicians say: we have to take people’s fears seriously. Because they are always looking towards the next election time. Consequently, they always fear that their majorities will become doubtful. This fear is certainly justified.
The fear of so many persons who will not and cannot understand the growth ideology and the insanity of our economic system is not taken seriously by “politics”. Because there is no alternative to growth.
The same is true for the fear of those who criticize the total electronic eavesdropping by internal and external organisations. And woe those who are worried about TTIP or who would want a different social structure.
Those people do not need to be “taken seriously”. Instead, you have to convince them! Today, this is still happening through adverts (aka enlightenment) by the responsible ministries. Well, I am certainly happy that we do not yet have federal re-education.
Another thing I find bureaucratic nonsense is the discussion about the minimum wage and the minimum wage itself. Not because I am opposed to it. In fact, I am totally in favour of fair pay for human labour. If possible on a world-wide scale and also here at home. Basically, I believe this should be self-evident.
Except – this is exactly what the concept minimum wages will not give us. Instead, it will give us even more bureaucracy, rules, control, penalties… And even more injustice.
Besides, the concept of minimum wages also fell victim to a profound mistake. As with many similar rules, they simply forgot to take inflation into consideration. And in a few years, we will all laugh out loud about the minimum wages, because they are so low. Or is it planned to increase them every year? What are the criteria? I know of no such plans.
Inflation happens. I notice it every day: at the bakery, on the market when I buy vegetables, in the swimming pool, when going places by S-Bahn or DB train, when I buy stamps from the post office in order to send my conventional mail, in pubs, etc. It is not really much of a consolation if the Diesel fuel – probably just for a very limited time span – seems to be rather cheap. And if you get huge amounts of money for hardly any interest.
The crazies in Brussels, too, frustrate me: they want to provide one billion Euros (in digits: 1,000,000,000,000 €) for growth and against low inflation.
So what is left for me to write about?
That health insurances are permitted to throw their savings around in 2015 when competing for more members and then, from 2016, will be allowed and even encouraged to generate additional income through tricky tariff constructions? And that then everything will be even less transparent and more complex?
About the post-Christmas populism practiced by the CSU? Or the helplessness of the Pope who discovered fifteen illnesses in his management system but does not know how to heal them? Or about the lunacy in the Ukraine and the Nato? About the demand by the Bavarian Government (in order to increase the rate of solved crimes) to have longer data storage (because of cyber criminality)?
No. As a matter of facts, even grumbling is no longer any fun!
RMD
(Translated by EG)
P.S.
I just heard an item of good news: As of today, Uli is a day release prisoner. I rejoice with him.
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