Why don't construction prices go down?

And to stand there and say the AfD does nothing is just stupid nonsense. In Thuringia, the AfD lowered the real estate transfer tax. It doesn't get more concrete than that. It wouldn't have been possible without the AfD. Period!

That's true. However, Thuringia actually has no money for such antics because it depends on the state financial equalization system. So we see, the AfD is primarily good at blowing other people's money ;)

So we see, the AfD is primarily good at spending other people’s money recklessly.

What about the other parties? They are even worse. On the contrary, they spend money they don’t even have.

There are many good and practical proposals from the AfD. And the AfD is staffed with very well-educated and qualified experts. The poll numbers don’t come out of nowhere, and people are not stupid either. Even though they are virtually excluded in the media, at least by the public broadcasters.

I am, as is well known, a long-time AfD voter, but not a member or supporter of this party. Should the AfD come into government responsibility, it will adapt just like the current system parties. Probably.

Until now, however, it has always managed to weed out the watered-down elements. Meuthen, Petry, and others, which had a certain self-purification effect. The agitation against the AfD is largely based on the established parties’ fear of losing their own power. And that is exactly what makes the AfD strong.

Yet the AfD would not even be necessary. A conservative CDU with an attitude like 30 years ago would have done our country very well. Unfortunately, under Merkel, it drifted left like the FDP and has now vanished into insignificance.

Here in Thuringia and Saxony I have often heard in conversations how people long for a strong CDU like back in the days of Kurt Biedenkopf or Bernhard Vogel. They had absolute majorities well above the 40 percent mark. These majorities are now held by the AfD. And it doesn’t help to call the 35 percent of voters right-wing extremist idiots. The AfD’s best election helper is the traffic light coalition.

And the Bavarians have it easy to talk, since they pay barely half the real estate transfer tax we pay here in Thuringia.

Oh right, radiation can also bring evolutionary progress to humanity. It promotes mutations.

No, the truly asylum-eligible people are largely very well educated (40% of all refugees have attended secondary school). The recognition of qualifications is more of a problem here. There are plenty of examples of Syrian or Iranian doctors who have to start a new training as nurses, and engineers who have to retrain as heating technicians.
Among those not eligible for asylum, lack of qualifications is more common (countries of origin: Afghanistan, Somalia, Eritrea).
(Sources among others bpb)
If you think about it a bit, that makes sense: In the crisis area, as a highly educated person you are more likely to leave because you have the financial means to do so and are probably part of the opposition or regime-critical elite.
In the safe country, you are more likely to stay if you see no (economic) perspective. As a well and highly educated person, on the other hand, you can have a good living even in developing and emerging countries (that are reasonably safe).

The problem is actually the lack of legal, quick immigration possibilities for well-qualified people and the recognition of foreign qualifications as well as professional experience, and on the other hand access to the labor market and long-term residence prospects for legitimate asylum seekers.
Another question is whether we should extract well-educated people from their home countries.

In any case, the whole matter is clearly more complicated than just saying all migrants are to blame for me having to freeze next winter.

That matches my previous experiences. I have a Syrian colleague who did additional training as a SPA here despite many obstacles. Most of the refugee parents from our daycare work or have even retrained (bus drivers, truck drivers) to have a perspective here. They are almost all from 2015... first they have to learn the language and overcome a lot of problems.

Girls, there are certainly also refugees who are willing and able to integrate, who build a solid existence in Germany with diligence and determination, and of course they can do so. There are enough examples of this.

But that is not the majority. They are and remain isolated cases. The majority has no interest in integrating here. And since 2015, 8 years have passed. We should therefore neither talk about a shortage of skilled workers nor about children in schools who do not speak German.
Those who do not manage it in 8 years will not manage it in the next 20 years either.

These foreign cultures cannot adapt here and many do not want to either. They want to force it on us. That is the reality.

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There are very many good and practical solution proposals from the AfD. And the AfD is staffed with very well-educated and qualified experts. The poll ratings do not fall from the sky and people are not stupid either. Even if they are pretty much excluded in the media, at least by the public broadcasting media.
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Since I have already asked this many times in discussions outside this forum and never received answers... please name me a few solution proposals from the AfD. I would really be interested.

But that is not the majority. These are and remain individual cases. The majority has no interest in integrating here.

How do you come to that assessment? In my experience, the vast vast vast majority of people have a desire to do something with their lives. And usually that includes something like earning their own living. That may not mean integrating in the sense of "I throw all my previous life experiences and beliefs overboard," but it is also not a life "at the expense of our social systems." This is just my personal impression, but I often wonder how it can be so different.