Construction costs are currently skyrocketing

Well, not everyone is like you, a construction professional following the trade journals regularly. My cousin just missed the subsidy in February, and that was the final blow to the construction project... guess how much heat she’s giving the guy?!

As if he decided that alone... Well, the main thing is to have a scapegoat. One could also say... foolish of her to have counted on it. It would probably have been smarter to calculate in such a way that you can carry out your project even without any subsidies.

I find it a pity that there is so little solidarity. And the fish always stinks from the head first. If those at the top cannot form a united team... how is the people supposed to manage it then? I don’t even know how long people can endure this bashing and why? Judging by the pictures, I would say Lindner and Habeck have aged years in the last few months.

And let’s mentally play this through... government resigns. What happens then?

From the pictures, I would say Lindner and Habeck have aged years in the last few months.

I think WE agree on that ;)

And let's just play this through mentally... Government resigns. What happens then?

That is not possible. Either the Chancellor faces a vote of no confidence, he loses: new elections. Or the Bundestag elects another Chancellor on its own, who then chooses a new cabinet. But a resignation on their own is officially not possible for the government.

Resigning brings nothing at all. We need a radical change. It must consist of several building blocks:

1. Reform public broadcasting. Cut the budget from 8 billion EUROS to a maximum of 200 million EUROS. Immediately dismiss at least 80% of the people working there without notice. Abolish GEZ and finance it through the general budget like in France.
2. Reduce the number of deputies by 50%. Stop the construction of the new chancellery. Triple the salaries, but prohibit all secondary jobs.
3. Responsibility for actions. For example, the fact that someone like Karl Lauterbach is still in office after all his scandals and lies can no longer be justified to anyone.
4. It is a no-go to push the AFD into a right-wing corner and to refuse coalitions.
5. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Constitutional Court must be reformed. With Harbarth, the rule of law has been severely damaged. I know that Merkel and not the Greens is responsible for this.
6. All payments and funds abroad must be reviewed. We send too much money abroad; in the Ahr Valley, far too little help has arrived so far. Many pensioners live below the poverty line.
7. Significantly reduce dependence on Russia, China, and the USA. Europe must become independent, otherwise we will perish.

There is so much to do in this country. The healthcare system is rapidly deteriorating, and large gaps in mobile communications still exist in rural areas in 2022.

Basically, I don’t care. I have made provisions in all areas. If the power goes out, I am well supplied for 2 to 3 months without major problems.

But those who know the blackout books know that after 48 hours at the latest, murder and mayhem will prevail in the cities.

My opinions on these topics are generally well known and feared here in the forum. Slowly, one begins to feel like a clairvoyant. I can only advise everyone to watch the speech by Ms. Weidel at today’s general debate in the Bundestag on YT. There is nothing more to say about it.

Well, the middle class is of course particularly burdened. That is also the last bastion where there is still something to be gained. At the end of the journey, which will come sooner than expected, Germany will be on the ground and the euro will be worthless. Through burden sharing, the last reserves will be squeezed out of the people.

Although I have to take Habeck’s side for once. Not every business closure is an insolvency. But we will certainly see the closure of entire industrial sectors and distribution structures due to excessively high energy costs. For many companies, it is simply better to do nothing than to produce losses.

And that closes the circle to the homebuilder. Those who are highly indebted and have to meet their bank obligations cannot simply stop working. Money has to come in. It’s like with the Green ideology.

I am only writing about official findings. In the first half of 2022, we received 980,000 immigrants in Germany. Mind you, in 6 months! Question: who should and above all can still pay for that?

European energy suppliers speculated on the stock exchange with the electricity price. On falling electricity prices. But they have risen. For this, so-called margin calls, i.e. securities, must be posted. It has been calculated that the amount of margin calls has now risen to 1.5 trillion euros across Europe. That is a financial atomic bomb.

If what Reuters or Bloomberg report is true, then besides the existing crises, we will soon face an enormous financial crisis that will dwarf the Lehman collapse. If we now also see a depreciation of the euro, then it will get really bitter.

For my part, just as a brief piece of advice before my heretical theories are deleted again: I have invested part of my assets in physical precious metals and am in the process of transferring my euro cash holdings into Swiss francs. And this will happen this week! That crashes. One euro is now worth only 98 rappen. Ridiculous. It should have been done much earlier.

The mere fact that people here in the forum speculate about food stamps is already remarkable.

Respect! You can tell someone knows their stuff and has dealt with the topics.

I’m telling you, some people really get all warm inside when they can wallow in doomsday scenarios. :rolleyes: