With the recent political contributions, the venality of parties has reached a new dimension.
good four months after the elections makes the black-yellow coalition is not only a desolate-contentious impression. Gradually get details on political contributions to light which make the coalition more than lobbyists and big business interests seem remotely. Now it is certainly not new, feel that the established parties are committed to the profit rates of the major corporations that apply to them as a measure of economic rationality. The dimension of the venality, the FDP has been achieved, however, was not previously apparent.
the scandal of the benefits of a joint owner of the Mövenpick Group summarizes the association lobby control in his account of events following together: a hotel chain, which has not previously emerged as a major donor in appearance, begins in September 2008 therefore, to pay much money to the FDP. The FDP will reduce the VAT rate for hotels in their election program. The company will donate more. The FDP reached with the parliamentary elections in September 2009 and shortly thereafter the government is reducing the VAT rate for hotel stays of 19 by seven percent. Overall, the FDP
has received 1.1 million from the substantia AG, part of branched corporate empire of Baron August von Finck, whose family owns the Mövenpick Group. Mövenpick operates 14 hotels in Germany, Baron von Finck is one of the wealthiest citizens of the country.
As was announced at the beginning of the week in addition to the FDP also have changed their views on solar energy, after the party leader Guido Westerwelle had attended in September at a fundraising dinner with the CEO of SolarWorld AG, Frank Asbeck. The reported levels. Originally, the FDP had wanted to cut the state support of solar photovoltaic systems by at least 30 percent. Meanwhile, the Federal Government has announced to cut subsidies for solar power by only 15 percent. The company SolarWorld AG has its corporate headquarters in Bonn, Westerwelle constituency. The FDP denies that the donation had influence on the decision.
Rather fall in the range "bizarre" is likely that a private Health insurance open runs recruitment for the FDP, and vice versa. The Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on 21 January on the German Health Insurance (DKV), which is based in Cologne. »Exclusive to FDP members," there are five percent discount, the logos of the party and the insurance resplendent in a row on the website of DKV. The FDP makes himself a brand product and the buffoon completely economic interests. And this will gradually clear what should be surprising, "tailored to specific interest tax cuts from the" law of accelerating growth and why the FDP leadership itself against the otherwise effective argument of the empty Cash was eager to implement the promised tax cuts. Apparently Westerwelle, Niebel and his associates were simply a lot of pressure to deliver value for money against the expected benefits to be considered generous in the future.
Although the CDU has contributed to the recent donations swamp. donations as members of the billionaire Quandt family and Klatten shortly after the election a total of 450 000 euros to the CDU. Even before the donation was the BMW's major shareholders known to have "the CDU and FDP," a new discount in the taxation of employee car for staff and as an additional tax rebate for the private use of company cars agreement, reported the Mirror. The content of self-emptying and were dressing like their own policy in this radical but apparently still the specialty of the FDP, a trend that already Jürgen W. Möllemann to its ultimate consequences, had driven the self-destruction is no longer salable goods.
The belief in the redeeming powers of the market appears to be shaken but superficial. The embarrassing contradiction between returns and record job losses, but in particular, the effects of global crisis clearly revealed that the seemingly rational system of money and goods world really is deeply irrational and prone to crisis. Nevertheless, seems the appeal of religion to be the bigger market on the frightened middle classes, the bourgeoisie, fearing the crash and their career hopes robbed clerks. And it is these elements gathered in the election and crisis of 2009, the FDP and aggressively put forward their message of market radicalism and social Darwinism.
But even if known sufficiently well, is that at least CDU / CSU and FDP at the mercy attach a destructive ideology, it was to take still reassuring that they do so on their own initiative and real narrow-minded man of conviction - a conviction that after all of time to time must be balanced with opportunistic re-election considerations such as the goal. Therefore, one could at least halfway to be sure that at the presentation of proposals such as those that shorten unemployment benefits by a third, to introduce the general forced labor or to abolish unfair dismissal protection, even avowedly the middle spectrum belonging to elected representatives would concern shaking his head.
But reality is different. to believe Every time you start now and again that with a few exceptions, the political dependence in the political system of Germany just does not work that suitcases worn with black money across the border or even just bills million would be paid for with donations, you are wrong. Now lobbying is really nothing new, and it could be argued that anyone who falls from the clouds again, had not understand how this system works. The clumsiness with which the potentially critical public is being sold for stupid borders, but to an insult. "We do not depend on politics" of donations, said the spokesman of the FDP, Wulf Oehme. Oh, well then.
belonged in the radical left it in the past few years good form even the most obvious impertinence of character masks in Cabinet and capital clarified as normal side effects dismiss the everyday life under capitalism. Man kaprizierte itself to those as populists, simpleton or even as propagandists for a shortened personalizing criticism of capitalism to note, the indignant about bonus payments to managers, from slush funds financed yellow "unions" and purchased tax cuts.
But ten years ago could pass as calculated taboo against a good person by way of unthinking and any more detailed critique of capitalism averse NGO movement and the Left, has become now an empty gesture that does not include any significant potential for more criticism. Anyone outraged by such a brazen and corrupt pork-barrel politics can no longer obviously every societal view has lost.
Jungle World from 28.01.2010
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