All in the Family, German Version

What better way to express fraternal devotion than to award a prize to your brother? Especially when your brother is a prominent politician, and the prize is publicly funded.

Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from Junge Freiheit. The translator’s comments are in square brackets:

Nepotism

When Habeck’s brother invents a prize

Economics Minister Habeck has been waiting for an award for his controversial energy policy. Now he has it — from his brother’s taxpayer-funded facility. He [the brother] personally presented the trophy.

HANOVER

At the Hanover Fair, Hinrich Habeck , Managing Director of Economic Development and Technology Transfer Schleswig-Holstein (WTSH), presented the “Energy Coasts” award to his brother Robert, the Green Federal Minister of Economics. This is the first time this award has been given. [What does Energy Coasts (Energieküsten) mean? These people make up utterly meaningless phrases, willy nilly, to suit their nefarious agenda, which is in my eyes to “rob everyone blind and destroy that which they can’t carry.”]

On behalf of the state-sponsored company, the 50-year-old honoured the commitment of his three-year-older brother for his commitment to the energy transition. Because the Green politician fights “tirelessly for climate protection, renewable energies and for his homeland Schleswig-Holstein.”

Prize “invented” especially for Habeck

The WTSH is financed by the black-green state government from tax money. The pink trophy that Hinrich Habeck presented bears the words “Great work, well done”.

Criticism comes from the FDP: “It is not the task of public institutions to invent awards for active politicians. It’s really bizarre that he also gets the award from his own brother,” said Schleswig-Holstein parliamentary group leader Christopher Vogt to the Bild newspaper.

The Green Economics Minister also sees himself exposed to accusations of nepotism. His state secretaries are related by marriage and, through other close family connections, commissioned NGOs with expert opinions, which, among other things, prepared Habeck’s heating ban. [They are definitely “experts” in having ideologically-based opinions that are detriment to the German people, and must therefore be promoted. After all, there are still German people who are ALIVE, and we can’t have that, now, can we?]

Afterword from the translator:

I’d love to know how much that “prize” money is that the taxpayers had to cough up for their own exterminator? I doubt he settled for 30 pieces of silver.

How can it be possible, that a former 1st World Country can be brought so low in such a short time span that living in a Third World Country seems like a good idea?

The answer is quite simple. Arthur Schopenhauer already stated the obvious roughly 200 years ago when he said:

“Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.”

2 thoughts on “All in the Family, German Version

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    “Energy efficient renovation mandatory”

    There are currently nine energy efficiency classes in Germany. They range from A+ to H and indicate the energy needs of the house. This depends on the heating system, house size, insulation and use. “75% of households in Germany are heated by gas and oil.”
    Gas heating systems were still subsidized until 24 January 2021 for new buildings and until 28 July 2022 for renovations. These subsidies were repealed in the context of the revision of the federal grant for efficient buildings (BEG).

    An energy renovation with heat pump, new windows, facade and roof insulation, underfloor heating and solar panels on the roof were not priced. “With this mandatory energy renovation, the costs of €1,200-1,500 per square meter quickly become high.””

    A historical staircase joke
    Make 120,000 to 150,000 euros for a house of a hundred square meters. “Nobody expected such follow-up costs five or ten years ago.” And so when the loans expire, more properties will end up on the supply market – they have simply become unaffordable for their owners.”

    It may sound like a step-by-step joke to this story that the European Parliament voted at the end of March to ban certain heat pumps. These are models that use perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds. These so-called F-gases do not damage the ozone layer, but emit large amounts of greenhouse gases.

    Legal uncertainty and lack of planning
    In every second new one- and two-family house, such a heat pump is already installed.

    If the ban were to come into force, owners would have to replace either the appliance or the refrigerant. It is this legal uncertainty for the end user, be it an owner or a tenant, and the legislator’s lack of planning that has the market worried.

    “The current inflation, as we have it at the moment, is basically already a creeping expropriation,” says Michael von Hauff. He is president of the Real Estate Management Division of FIABCI, the international umbrella organization for the real estate industry based in Paris, and managing director of a real estate management consultancy, publisher of the reference book “Das große Verwalterhandbuch”.

    New laws and regulations
    According to Statista, 31.2 percent of the total 36.9 million inhabited apartments in Germany are privately owned and rented in 2018. “However, the impression today is that renting out apartments should be made unbearable,” he says.

    “The in some cases grotesque increase in property tax, Habeck’s planned ban on the installation of oil and gas heating systems, the failed attempt at a rent ceiling in Berlin, and the constantly new laws and regulations being passed that the individual owner cannot deal with without legal guidance.”

    “This amount of legislation is simply insane”
    In addition to Habeck’s ban on the installation of oil and gas heating systems, he mentions the constant stream of new laws and regulations being passed. “There is, for example, the Emergency Assistance for Natural Gas Heating Act (EWSG), the Fuel Emissions Trading Act (BEHG), the Renewable Energy Act (EEG 2023) or the Regulation on Short-term Measures for the Security of Energy Supply (EnSikuMaV).

  2. You will own nothing and be” Happy” seems part of the current German government is on board with this plan by the unelected elites. Regulate how you can heat your house or apartment by ever moving goal post ,regulate where you drive, how far,(15 min. cities) what kind of car you can own. Next tax red meats, push MAID (medical assist in dying) the government can push more drugs to keep people “happy” or kill them.

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