An open letter to the German government Chancellor's Office Chancellor Angela Merkel, Vice Chancellor Franz Muentefering
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Willy-Brandt-Strasse 1 10557 Berlin
Zurich, 01 February 2007
Dear Mrs. Merkel, Mr Muentefering,
now it is time. I left Germany 29 years after my birth, final. After I successfully completed my engineering degree, I will take up a job in Switzerland. I'm not the only reason to Switzerland, because it is potentially attractive as a landscape of Germany, no, the main reason for my departure, you are both, it is the German policy in general. This course not only her but also that of your predecessor governments. For years, people like you run a "policy" that the fundamental problems of this country can not solve. You may do this also does not solve, while the failures of Germany have long been evident, bureaucracy, unnecessary and wrong laws, numerous constraints, enormous tax burdens devour the wealth of the German nation and destroying countless jobs daily. The necessary
Masznahmen have over the years, if not known in decades. But instead of finally address the necessary political choices, push "responsible leaders" how to selbige front of it and express themselves from serious solutions by focusing on secondary theaters of war. I know neither you, nor your previous governments to change the actual will anything in the meantime even abroad so-called "German disease". Important to you are probably your personal and official sinecures. Presumably it is the fear for your re-election, which you can take only Scheinmasznahmen which do not affect the systematic abuses of the German economic, labor, social and financial policies, however.
The consequences of this inaction are overwhelming. It is you probably know that in Germany for nine (sic) million people out of work sind.Mit minimum wages, job security, health fund, "equal representation" and similar economic atrocities you seem to want to exacerbate this problem consciously, as if the German social systems not already hopelessly ramshackle. Ludwig Erhard did not deserve such successor governments!
in the field of public debt without you totally initiative. The debt of the Federal Republic of Germany is to-day about 1.54 trillion euros, before pension charges. If you add this one, the amount rises to at least six billion euros. I ask you, how do you intend to solve this problem? Even if you put the current volume of the federal budget for the next 55 years into the debt (without any further expenditure in other areas) the interest due could not be operated. In fact, this problem appears to fiscal ways not to be solved, probably remains the only way out by printing money and thus increase inflation. I for one do not intend to waste my work force and life to this suicide mission. Why would a man my age to pay for a debt that was caused by the reckless Sozialhedonismus previous generations? In gratitude for the heritage of collapsing and cost-prohibitive "social systems"? One of the side
battlefields, on which you can hear almost daily melodious official pronouncements, is known as industrial and innovation policy. But even here, make it resistant to the German governments, hinauszujuridizieren the most innovative technology from Germany. Thanks to your policy to have a future areas such as biotechnology, genetic engineering or research in medicine long since departed from Germany. German policy has created a technology-hostile environment, indeed triggered a technology phobia. Only a few generations ago, Germany was the most advanced and innovative country in the world, only politicians like you could do it, this by prohibitions, regulations, taxes and unnecessary laws to operate. The "exit" from the nuclear energy that drives your government is due to lack of supply alternatives, only one of many policy mistakes. Another is the German Transrapid technology, which, after having been nursed for years with taxpayers' money will now be dropped unexpectedly. China, India, Norway, Canada and even Switzerland will be grateful for the jobs that you create so there.
thanks to you is Germany "in the sleeping car of globalization" (Der Spiegel). What a promising future for a nation of 82 million people.
course loads the technophobic climate in our country, the German research. Finally, should the local theory is in a deplorable state, "Pisa" only the peak of the iceberg. In the German educational policy prevails antediluvian planned economy, personal responsibility and private initiative are systematically obstructed and discouraged. It provides you not just elites through government fiat, but through dismissal of the schools and colleges in the financial and personal responsibility. It is hardly bear to hear a German politician to carry the message of "most important resource education in the mouth.
The depressing effects of German politics, but pull always funnier government to intervene. Capital flight, undeclared work, unemployment, a real impoverishment of large population groups (precariat) resolve among politicians as you inevitably the almost knee-jerk call for still more government, more of disenfranchisement and dispossession. The government's share in Germany is now legendary 56% Rising. Some economists are saying as little as 50% of socialism, the talk of the "DDR light" does not seem inappropriate. Do they really still believe that it is possible the long-ruined German social systems save the fact that one is still pumping more money into it? I will not accept for myself that a large part of my income in social "safety systems" seep, which I never be anything but uncertainty can offer. A leaky vessel is not seaworthy again by new anstreicht it.
As you know, meanwhile, is driving your policies annually more than 145,000 German abroad, most of them well-educated graduates. They all turn back on Germany, because they see for themselves in this country, no future. Like me, many have simply fed up with a cheap political activism, which solves the problems do not, but this exacerbates rather stable. For most people it is simply not acceptable to waste 50% of one's working time for it to fund the mistakes of the policy. Particularly intelligent and educated people realize this, they leave Germany. Ironically, from the mouth of the policy will still hear the call for "solidarity" relieved to leave.
I can not seriously hope that you are in the foreseeable future claim omnipotence adopt the policy and rely on the conscience of citizens. The path you tread currently leads, unfortunately, once again in the wrong direction. Is it any wonder still seriously doubt that now more than 50% of citizens in the sense of democracy? Do you want to necessarily go down as the administrator of the Federal Republic in the story? Reading German newspapers suggests politically interested citizens (an unfortunately dying species), meanwhile, only on the mind. The daily news of the official government Gemurkse retching and rob the last hope of an economic and social change in Germany. It lists Canada budget surplus for years, in Switzerland there is full employment, Eastern European economies to grow in double digits.
It requires a high pressure to persuade a man to leave his home. In my case, you have passed through government coercion, regulation, tax expropriation of the tolerable level. I see value in this country, no future, for people that freedom, personal responsibility and initiative. With regret, I note that you obviously do not intend to change the circumstances described here, something worth mentioning. Nothing in your activities suggest that you follow such a plan at all.
Nevertheless, I remain very limited in expectation of a hopeful response of contrasting Standarfloskeln
,
Patrick Harsch.
