The following essay explores the possibility that the German welfare state may crash and burn sooner than most people expect.

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

More and More Expenses, Fewer and Fewer Depositors: When Will the Bitter End Come?

The welfare state is becoming more and more bloated, but thanks to a constantly increasing number of benefit recipients — citizens’ benefit recipients, migrants, pensioners, recipients of other benefits (such as child benefit, soon basic child welfare), subsidies for heating replacement and ever more spending for Ukraine — it receives less and less revenue. The many allowances and additional benefits for MPs and civil servants do the rest. All of this costs hundreds of billions of euros every year. And there is no end in sight. Quite the opposite — more and more migrants are coming with many more children, and more and more people are retiring. In short: expenses will continue to rise and taxpayers’ income will continue to fall. [Just like in South Africa, which has around six million taxpayers and about thirty million people who are receiving government hand-outs.]

The positive thing about this indisputably bad trend, however, is the inevitable associated fact that it’s going to blow up all the faster. In other words: the more money spent, the sooner day X will come when the federal government must finally realize that there will no longer be enough, or at some point no money at all for all the state transfer payments mentioned, that the citizens will gradually have to cope with less, and that asylum seekers will have to try their luck elsewhere in the future. The fact that other countries with significantly lower social benefits have significantly fewer asylum seekers and that they also (have to) work much more frequently shows the enormous influence that the level of transfer payments without consideration has on the willingness to immigrate. The pull effect is not a hypothesis, but a REALITY.

Things cannot continue as they are for much longer

It’s no longer a secret that more and more migrants are flooding Germany and more and more people — including Germans — are living voluntarily at state expense, since the transfer payments are simply too high for people to willingly forgo or go to work. But that can’t be the case in the long term. It cannot go on forever, with millions of people living at the expense of others. If everyone thought like those whose well-being is the main concern of today’s politicians, there would never have been any money to distribute at all. So if the dreadful end comes soon, then many people “seeking protection” and poverty migrants would at least partially understand or at least have to realize that Germany is not the right place for them, and the many recipients of citizenship benefits, who as I said are not just foreigners, would have to get off their [fundaments] and go to work. It remains to be seen whether this realization will take place without social upheavals or militant uprisings. [I guess they will soon be chanting Julius Malema’s favourite “song”: Kill the Boer, kill the White.]

One or two politicians, who ultimately only live at the expense of the state, for whom there may not be quite as much money left (although it is clear to me, of course, that the normal citizen has to bite the bullet first), may also look down the tube. The fact is, however, that the state coffers will be empty at some point, and if the money is now spent with both hands, all the better, because then the awakening will come so much faster. Anyone who is already receiving citizen income at the age of 30 and therefore has no incentive to work may wake up in a few years. He can then at least still be relatively fit and possibly even motivated to go to work. However, if this is only the case in twenty years, the now 30-year-old has become a middle-ager, who has “learned” to do nothing but hang around for twenty years or has acquired expertise in pursuing criminal activities and vegetating at the expense of the state. It will be difficult for him to get used to the changed circumstances.

Pensioners will also have to restrict themselves (even more). [I guess they’ll soon have to fight over the bottles for the deposits.]

Furthermore, many (prospective) pensioners will still experience their blue miracle. Many of the future seniors have already calculated the amount of their future pension and are looking forward to a pension of at least €1,600, for example. That’s not much, but it’s usually enough to live on, especially if you own your own home. Unfortunately, too many future pensioners do the math without the landlord, because who knows what the €1,600 will even be worth in the future due to inflation?! These are bare numbers that always have to be put into perspective, quite apart from the fact that too many seniors can only expect a pension that is already too small to live on.

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