“A world where only power matters is a dangerous place. First for small states, then for the middle powers, and ultimately for the great ones. I do not say this lightly. In the 20th century, my country Germany went down this road to its bitter end. It pulled the world into a black abyss.”
He continuously questions the wellfare state of Germany, which most of us are very proud of. Unemployment benefits will get stricter rules. He says 14.5 sick days per worker and year are an unacceptably high number and we should ask ourselves if that is really necessary. He calls immigrants a problem for our cityscapes. Every foreign visit he went on he insulted the host country in some other way. He and his party argue for reactivation of our nuclear power plants for “cheap” energy, but all the former operators of those plants say it would be uneconomical or downright impossible to do and thr kWh would be way more expensive than renewables. They also ask Germany and the german economy to be “open for different technologies” when it comes to the decarbonising the country but the race has been won by BEV and heat pumps, no amount of H2 research will change that. He calls himself upper middle class despite having a private plane and multiple houses, the money for which he earned in his time at BlackRock. Nobody wanted him in any official office he held. He lacks enpathy. He lacks kindness. He lacks leadership. He lacks a vision of the future.
He got 500 billion Euro to spend as he pleases (10% of German GDP) and still isn’t able to kickstart the economy with that.