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if we look at the weather out of a plane down to Germany, we see a country that make the holidays and invites you to dream. If you fly low and come across cities and communities, we recognize from a certain height and the individual houses, and everything appears neat and GE maintains.
it goes to the Germans so well?
Now, if only for a few kilometers above can hardly realize that the country performs just a vehement descent from a major industrial nation to a bottom of the Western world. Seen from the height of the much-traveled is only in comparison to other countries in the relative lack of modern architecture and multi-laned highways. missing between the small fishing villages in the north Frisian and the idyllic mountain farms in the south in the cities all forward-looking Structures, there is only the TV towers, stadiums and a few skyscrapers in Frankfurt. On the streets you see in between the heavy traffic jams and long with many building sites. The concerns of the people but it can be seen from this perspective does not eventually anyway. From the air we do not see - and obviously not if you sit in the Bundestag. As in the clouds at home since Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke again and again by a recovery that had arrived with the people.
sees the world only every fact, according to his expectations, and experiments show that people perceive themselves adult gorillas at the roadside, not because they do not expect there. And the Chancellor and their representatives in Parliament speak of prosperity, because they know the reality of citizens in the country long ago nothing more - or want to know. When talking with people but, it is found that the situation in Germany is alarming. Process taking almost all professions and all stages of life, from childhood started on studying, employment, entrepreneurship, employment, illness, to retirement.
Let's start with how are the children. Child poverty in West Germany has doubled since 1989 from 4.5% to 9.8% in 2001, even in eastern Germany to 12.6%. [1] A UNICEF study of 24 OECD countries confirmed 2005 that in Germany for 10% of children with an income below the poverty line, ie below half the average OECD-wide net income. [2] lived after the poverty report for the federal government in 2008 already 13% of the population in poverty, some sources even calculate 17.1%. [3] After the 2009 report, 24% of Germans without social risk of poverty. Risk of poverty are all below 60% of median income ie 913 €. Individual groups and towns here have very much worse values. In Lübeck, 25% of children are poor, in Berlin have even 36% of children living on Hartz IV. [4] In the case of single parents 40% of children live in poverty. These children are regularly sent to school without breakfast and the parents can afford the 50 € a month for lunch, not at school. [5] The EU has adopted a program to provide free fruit placed in schools, but the German Bundesrat rejected the participation of Germany for financial reasons. [6] also in Berlin. In Berlin, 15,000 children are catered for by charities and would otherwise go hungry. [7] lives according to a study of the Joint Welfare Association from 2006 in Eastern Germany now one in four children under 15 years of so-called Social benefit, in Görlitz even every third. [8] The children seem to be the boom that is not arrived. On the contrary, for them it is getting worse from year to year.
What about, for example, in Cologne and Munich with the facilities for children and young people? In Cologne in 2003 was over 300 locations in the deletion list. As in many other places had to close in Cologne, swimming pools, kindergartens and youth centers. In Munich, the children and youth recreational centers to receive a quarter less remuneration. Local investments have gone down in the last 10 years by 35%. [9] The young people from Upswing gotten nothing. And for the schools is in the European comparison, the financial envelope in the lower third, there are large classes and too few teachers, 80,000 students each year end with no qualifications. Germany has the strongest educational selection in Europe. [10]
Of the young people to the students after graduation have a turbo now pay tuition fees. We note at the universities that trickles in many buildings the plaster off the ceiling. Entire institutions are often ridiculous budget available, not enough time for shipping. Professor of jobs remain unfilled for years. While in the "developing country" Malaysia the professors and the budget in the last four years have increased by half by 2008 are in Germany in that time, the fewer positions and budgets become smaller. At the Berlin universities have professors like 2008 a third less in 1992, their number is in this period fell from 13,000 in 8200. [11] whole faculties in Germany to be closed for lack of money, such as the medical school in Lübeck. For 2004, the nationwide university construction projects were cut by a further 135 million €. [12] Many libraries have long been not in a position to purchase new books, magazine subscriptions were many places to below 10% of the desirable stock back down. With € 8.3 billion, the Federal Government from just 1.5% of GDP on education, while the EU average is 2.5%. [13] China has 2009 Rd. € 20 billion (151 billion yuan) for science and technology output, 30% more than in 2008! [14] Germany for the military are, however, compared to other countries too much lace, a far higher proportion than Russia. Even for students of the recovery has thus brought more losses.
come from the university, we look for work and for starting a business, such as Halle and Berlin. The politicians brag year after year with further decline in unemployment. In June 2009, the number should be decreased to 3.41 million. But next to these recipients of ALG I, the 4.94 million recipients of unemployment benefit II or social welfare Hartz IV were not counted, nor a 2.85 million-euro jobs, 700,000 short-workers made redundant 480 000 and 1 , 5 million in training courses reassigned. So you could also include 12 million unemployed, which was given in addition to the 38.8 million workers [15] . The city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, at 27% for even the highest unemployment in Europe. [16] It is not uncommon that now 500 new teachers to apply a single body, but the politicians use the cliche that it was the unemployed to anti-social, lazy-nothings. [17] find the meantime, however, many university graduates among the unemployed, 2009 480 000 unemployed had the technical or higher education. [18] In Berlin, 20% of homeless professionals, including lawyers and Ph.D. chemists, will find it provides job seekers who speak four languages fluently. [19] can be seen in the capital, more and more that 300,000 people here now live on social assistance and about 10,000 are homeless or homeless, [20] but the city needs the next 25 years, every year 300 million € pay off debt. [21]
The unemployment rate reflected no longer reflects the plight of employment because the employment structure is completely changing. 2006 the average German worker, only € 1452 had net on the pay slip, and also in neighboring Austria, the situation was no better. [22] The number of shoots continuously at full employment in Germany decreased further, while the share of atypical workers is continuously rising. Increasingly, companies convert to full-time jobs to part-time and part-time jobs to mini-jobs. [23] A quarter of employees has only a low wage job, [24] 2 ½ million have only a "mini-job for 400 € a month. [25] Mini in wages, maximum in the work and for many households the main income. Some work in a mini-job 30 hours a week after the limit was dropped to 15 hours. Practical replace full-fledged activities. And while in 20 out of 27 EU countries, such as in China, minimum wage, there are in Germany, low wages possible [26] scoff that every description, even though the International Labour Organisation in Article 2, each type of work, under threat prohibits any penalty, requested the German government to accept from 1 €-Jobs and leads to a forced labor. Unemployed are often forced into activities in which they go broke more clothes than they can replace their earnings. From a recovery in the labor market can really be no question.
say what the creators, of the still small great company tomorrow? They feel more necessary, promoted as the bureaucracy is tougher on her side and taken down only on the power of the state will favor the side. Start-up companies for example, must immediately give up a month from sales tax returns, not quarterly or semi-annually, even if they do not even no revenue. And if a statement a few days late comes in, immediately penalties are due. Less bureaucracy means that the warnings now without memories are anticipated and that the tax to enter after an exhortation to immediate enforcement decisions. Less bureaucracy means to them that are allowed for defective official notices contradictions but more action must be brought. Young entrepreneurs who are happy in the early years, by making a net profit will, of voluntary health insurance monthly amounts in the amount of 270 € pay, just as much as Manager of well established international company. A co-insurance for spouses or an aid scheme as for civil servants is not intended for new entrepreneurs. The promotion of young entrepreneurs is de facto not clear, but there are always new difficulties created.
And what about medical care? Many hospitals starve along, that the German Medical Journal 2006, it considered that must close in the next few years, a quarter of them. [27] In November 2008, the management consultancy McKinsey went even assume that one third of German hospitals in the coming years will not survive. Some may be the printer paper to print the analysis results can no longer afford. Of all German hospitals to 30% the bed capacity will be reduced, which is the closure of over 100 hospitals. [28] The Federal government seeks salvation in the privatization, but that's the solution? About 20% of hospitals in Germany are now in private hands, and many have cut 10% of its employees. About 50,000 bodies have been thus erased in the last 10 years, and the remaining employees had to accept wage cuts of around 30%. It is no longer unusual for a nurse is responsible for up to 30 patients, and in the elderly requires up to 50% of their operating time for the documentation to verify the medical service of health insurance can, if not too much money was spent on maintenance. To pressure ulcer care patients often receive treatments that are too short to achieve a sufficient therapeutic effect. Dialysis patients are now allowed only a maximum of three times a week in the life-saving device, they need more treatments per week, they have to pay for it themselves. For many essential medicines, the insured to pay vigorously despite increasing fees. Some hospitals now also save the health, the hospital beds in sterilization rooms are not sterilized, they are now just sprayed and wiped down before a new patient to get his bedding. For this reason alone take deadly infections in operations and cost in Germany each year 40,000 people are living, as people look for smaller operations to a hospital to die and then to hospital germs. The clinics in the Netherlands have responded to the German states and even take any patients from Germany for the first time in quarantine. [29]
And the doctors in small practices are no better. Many doctors give up and close their practices because they make the bottom line is a minus. [30] 2005 30,000 of the 96 000 medical practices in Germany were faced with the closure or bankruptcy, as evidenced by documentation of the associations and the Federal Statistical Office. [31] When In January 2008, so by the 8000 Bavarian family physicians 7000 in Nuremberg gathered for a rally, reported virtually no major newspaper about it, so once this protest in the medical history of Germany was. In September 2008, in Berlin nine clinics their precarious situation with a poster campaign dar. And then, when 130 000 hospital employees to the largest protest in the health system in German history in Berlin came together, it took them only a marginal note. With regard to health care for the population boom is certainly not completely visible. Rather, the contrary.
to road construction. In Schleswig-Holstein, we find the Federal road B 404th Lack of money their organization has been going insanely long. The expansion of only about 90 km long road to the highway has been going on for over 40 years and is still ongoing. On other highways may be the originally planned for the road bridges at the now amended conditions, they no longer need, and they are as concrete blocks without access around freely in fields. Many places it is actually similar and much-needed roads are only just saved. On the other hand, one third of the 36,000 road bridges in Germany now in a critical condition and in need of rehabilitation. [32] A study ADAC occupied meanwhile, that the collected taxes of the German drivers are used only a quarter of the road, as if there as much for other choice. [33] In comparison, China has been passed in 2009, new highway routes with a total length of 4719 km to traffic. [34]
What about the retailers? The last years have been after for the German retail the worst 1945. Given the general lack of money in Germany there are more and more bankruptcies. 2002 there were over 40,000. In some industries, reducing the number of self-employed from month to month by 1%. These always get more private Insolvencies. In 2005 they were in the previous year by a full third risen to 66 400 cases [35] 2008 there were already 74 800 cases. According to the financial information agency Creditreform in 2007 were a number of 7.3 million German completely bankrupt and hopelessly in debt. [36] According to a study by Eurostat, the European financial 2007, 39% of Germans do not spend € 860 for unexpected expenses, which makes Germany the second poorest country in Europe.
On cultural scene, theaters, musicals and orchestras? What do the directors? They say that culture is increasingly by the public only as "nice to have" is considered. The cultural scene is enhanced by the economic situation in Germany particularly hard hit because it does not bring quick profits. Cities such as Cologne and Munich have to close the theater, in Munich and elsewhere, many theater in a desperate fight for survival. Particularly hard hit are the orchestra in Germany that are merged or closed easily. This historic structures are dismantled, are not easily grow again.
When speaking fall within the big companies with middle managers who have to implement the requirements of top management, then more and more worried about the quality of output. To maximize their profits, many namely, large firms have opted to save on personnel costs by the dismissal of older workers. This means for many areas that the know-how carriers with interns and new teachers were replaced. Sometimes bodies for quality managers are also advertised only officially, but unofficially it quite saved. Still consume some big companies a little of their good name from the past, but already are quality issues to ensure not more. Since German locomotives no longer work in Scandinavia at freezing temperatures and at only 32 ° C ambient temperature high stop the air conditioning systems together into the passenger compartments, sometimes show cracks or axes It also flies ever away while driving a whole door, as is the neglect of safety rules at a new German tram described as a disaster, because the software works for a railway signal box for years just as the German software for British airports or for Bulgarian biometric statements, as had the British Health and Safety Executive Health & Safety an originating from Germany medical radiation device lock, because the EC quality requirements were not met because user-friendly user interfaces of products are not safe there but just to have any special request, yes Profit maximization on quality aspects of time has now even reached the air, as shown by the crash by AF 447 and the near accident of a Quantas Airbus A380. From the good name that German companies had for their quality products in the past again, the German company in the future but can not live long because of good reputation should be faster than lost it took to win. [37] no wonder that companies pride and family values from the past are increasingly being replaced by mere bullying and career thinking.
And how is the German pensioners? The export Cup in Germany is not with them somehow. Examples: Mr. G. Schmidt has to be in Berlin working life as an engineer, while his wife großzog the children. In seven children, she could also pursue any other work. As an academic he once well deserved, but now struggling in retirement, the family every day for survival, for five of the children still live at home. Since July 2003 relating to pension Schmidt € 924.73, and now everything is a bit short. [38] Or take the sole standing Sigrid Ballner from Trier. It has the Federal Labour Office in 1991 provided a pension of 600 € a month in view, in 2003 but got told that they could expect only 500 € per month. [39] Many depositors in the Federal Labour Office note that although they pay year after year into a pension scheme that will take them less prospect of pension calculated from year to year, the Federal Labour Office based upon the relative demographic reduction in the depositor. In Munich, the couple Ceplak worked 27 years, he as a waiter, she as a saleswoman in a kiosk. But they now receive a pension of € 780 together. Although they could last a lifetime working in Munich, but an apartment with a bathroom they can not afford today in Munich. The European statistics office noted even that 2009 in Germany, 1.2% of people without their own toilet in the apartment and go outside or on a farm must go to the bathroom. Had the Ceplak never paid into the pension fund and would have to live on social security, they would stand financially not much worse. In Bavaria, the average monthly pension amount in 2007 was only 647 €. Mind you, this is the average rent, which is why the living conditions are regarded with such income quite as characteristic of the general life situation of pensioners in the supposedly rich state of Bavaria have. In December 2008, notes the TV show Munich report that in Germany more and more pensioners are forced to continue working until they drop, they have to take odd jobs or collect bottles to survive. [40] figures the Federal Employment Agency show that 2003-2009 has increased the number of pensioners with mini-jobs by 29%. And a comparison of the OECD for 2009 that is in Germany the average level of pensions below the level of other European countries. [41] The average pension in the Netherlands is twice as high as that in Germany. have [42]
While countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and China in recent years made progress and the greatest use currently available technologies to achieve for their people an ever-futuristic paradise life in modern cities, identifies the West, a growing division in a few rich and the number of poor people, a climate of terrorism, the military build-up, think of naked oppression and scanning of the citizens. But, remember the citizen, it is not right that they are just tax slaves to celebrate their next Carnival.
use the west and in Germany, all progress more and more just a little money aristocracy, and the federal government has a strategic focus solely on the welfare of the big banks and big global players and thinks that if only there were enough "reforms" in favor of this, if you would help them compete globally, then would also be a sufficient number of jobs and it would all occur in the country well, and otherwise is the government's strategy for Germany's future only: Save, Save up to pay, savings, debt and the most punctual. And somehow the federal government observes not that debt is on private banks not sustainable concept, and that provide the banks and big companies in Germany, no jobs but eliminate them earlier and then give even their profits abroad rather than to tax in Germany.
other hand, it remains to ask whether people in Germany do not support the way and might want to actually return the majority of tourist train and candle light, because ultimately the existing government was elected by the people in the country? Why choose the Germans not politicians and parties with different objectives and change all that?
The next chapter provides information on why this is so, it explains how to make influential organizations that are always acceptable to them only the politicians in the government and as representatives of the people who could make a difference, expect a different fate.
[1] Thorsten Stegemann: Poor children in rich countries, Telepolis, 02.03.2005.
[2] The EU Member States have defined the limit at 60% of median income, which in Germany, an amount of 938 € meets monthly. Of life in Germany, 2nd Poverty and Wealth Report by the Federal Government in early 2005.
[3] poverty and wealth report by the federal government in 2008 and 2009.
[4] www.welt.de alarming high proportion of migrants with Hartz IV, 20.2.2010.
[5] Kai Dordowsky: Act now to Berlin - Every 4th Child is poor. Lübeck News Online, 02/11/2006.
[6] Hartz IV: No school fruit but save the banks. http://www.gegen-hartz.de/ , 11.7.2009.
[7] Wolfgang Büscher interview with Sabine value of the charitable organization "table" Berliner Morgenpost morgenpost.berlin1.de, 01/02/2004.
[8] panel criticized Hartz IV Lausitzer Rundschau, www.lr-online.de, 01.07.2006.
[9] Gabor Steinhard. The illusion of prosperity, Spiegel, No. 11, 8.3.2004, p. 52 ff
[10] Holger Schmale: Education Republic of Germany? Berliner Zeitung, http://www.berlinonline.de/ , 19.6.2009.
[11] Verena Kemna: The fat is long gone, 'we are on the bone', Germany Funk, 09/22/2008. Interview with President of the FU Berlin.
[12] Rachel Thomas in a speech in the German Parliament on 23.10.2003.
[13] Based on the "economic power" 2006 will be 8.5% and 200 billion €. Financial Times, 10.10.08.
[14] Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao: annual report of the government, 5.3.2010, http / / german.china.org.cn
[15] Wikipedia. Labor market, 10.7.2009.
[16] Der Spiegel, 15/2004, p. 34
[17] The CDU-Josef Schlarmann said a third of the recipients of social assistance will not work and their benefits should be reduced. http://www.welt.de/ , 14.10.2009.
[18] study of the DGB, 12.10.2009.
[19] Ulrich Gineiger: Dr. phil. Homeless, The time www.zeit.de, 29.06.2006.
[20] Lars Kreye: from life in public spaces, apparent stroke, the Berlin city magazine, 3 / 2004.
[21] From an advertisement of a popular movement of 35,000 citizens of Berlin and 100 professors, which was rejected by the Berlin Tagesspiegel, http://www.feldpolitik.de/ , 19.02.3004.
[22] A content is no longer enough for families. ORF Salzburg, 26.1.2010.
[23] rbb-TV: Crystal Clear, 4.3.2004.
[24] Marita Vollborn and Vlad Georgescu: Focus on Germany, Lübbe-Verlag, 2007.
[25] The World: number of mini-jobs increased to 2.5 million, 2/3/2004.
[26] Johnny Erling: China guaranteed minimum wages and holidays. http://www.welt.de/ , 16.12.2007.
[27] Hospital Association study confirmed: one in four hospital before Off. www.aerzteblatt.de, 09/02/2006.
[28] Norbert Rost: shortage of money in capitalism, Telepolis, 16.12.2003.
[29] Meike Hemschemeier: Killer Brut - The secretive disaster. ARD, 24.8.2009, 21:00.
[30] Thus, the surgeon Jochen Kuberka after 15 years in Wuppertal, taz, 11/12.10.2003, cover story.
[31] Frank Seidlitz: doctors threatened bankruptcy record. The Welt.de, 20.12.2005.
[32] 14 000 bridges in poor condition, Netzzeitung.de, 22.10.2003.
[33] Jens Tartler car you can feel ripped off. Financial Times Germany, 01.24.2010.
[34] Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao: annual report of the government, 5.3.2010, http / / german.china.org.cn
[35] Hamburger Abendblatt. More private insolvencies. 10.01.2006.
[36] Evelyn Binder: More and more German completely bankrupt. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 9.11.2007.
[37] Winfried Wolf: Global Player http://www.jungewelt.de/ , 16.4.2004.
[38] Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung, 37, 13.9.2003, p. 8
[39] FOCUS No. 32, 2003.
[40] Andrea Mocellin and Ulrich Hagmann: The old German pensioner poverty. http://www.br-online.de/ , 08.12.2008.
[41] Professor Dieter Döring: old do not live at the expense of younger people. http://www.taz.de/ , 11.11.2009.
[42] discourse return to the standard of living and poverty-backed fixed annuity. Expert reports and documentaries on economic and social policy, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2010.
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