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å2°2GERMANY AND HIS FUTURE°0å0
As a lot of you dear readers out
there know, Germany is one of the
states which spend a lot of their
national product on relieving the
part of the population who is not
possible to afford a reasonable
standard of living. People
describing Germany as a very rich
state are impressed by the social
services established in this part
of the European community. This
is the result of a very good
social insurance combined with
high social contributions in order
to finance all social charges.
The german government introduced
this system some years after the
Swedes, and it worked very well
for a lot of years. Perhaps you
have read, that Sweden cut a lot
of his social insurance, because
the laudable system suddenly did
suddenly not work any more. It is
incontestable a fine system making
a lot of the population in the
resepective country happy but
there is a little fault: It can
not be financed with such a high
unemployment rate like we have in
Germany. If this rate climbs up
to 2% and more, the social
insurance system is as effective
as a freezer in the Antarctic.
The Swedish government understand
this problem and they did
something against it. Do not
think, that the swedish government
is more intelligent than others
and therefore solved the problem
earlier, that is not right. The
fact is, that the swedish state
was forced to think about their
social insurance because of lack
of money.
Some time ago the latest
elections took place in Germany
and a lot of the population was
expected to choose the party of
the rightits, but that was not
true. The election was won by the
party, who normally is only
choosed by the upper classes. It
is not very hard to find a reason
for this: The winner party of the
election promised the upper
classes not to cut their income,
and if they are forced to, they
promised to do it in a reasonable
way. That was not the line of
pollicy the social democratic
party, the looser of the
elections, wanted to go. For this
party the average and lower
classes of the german population
voted because they promised a
higher income for this classes.
Perhaps you ask yourself how they
thought of financing this promise?
Very easy, they just wanted to cut
the income of the upper classes.
What does this result tell us?
First we can congratulate all the
criticizers and dogs in the
manger: It seems like a lot of
the germans have a very high
income. This part of the
population choosed the winner
party because they wanted to keep
as much of their income as
possible. Regarding the result of
the elections, it is evident, that
the average and lower classes will
have a similar income in future.
It is also possible, that their
income will fall due to the rising
costs of the social insurance. In
contrast to them the income of the
upper classes will most probably
rise. Some of you may ask
themselves, how this is possible.
The reason is easy: If your
monthly income is under 5700
German marks, you will have to pay
about 19.8% of your income in
order to finance the social
insurance. People earning more
than 5700 marks only have to pay
19.8% of 5700 German marks as
their contribution. Regarding
this it is possible, that a family
with two children where the father
earns 5500 German marks has to pay
1089 German marks every month. A
single earning 10000 German marks
has to pay 1128,60 German marks.
Still thinking of the german sense
of justice when reading this? The
winner of the election is known.
The future of Germany not.
å2Peace of Iriså0