People used to be able to plan their lives financially – that’s passé. Robert Habeck’s attempt to reform the heating system is off the mark.
In a land before time… the good life was well known. But let’s leave the Maya the Bee analogies. In fact, there was something like a reliable life in Germany for a long time. People with a normal income could easily build something.
The 80s and 90s in particular were golden times. You could plan your own life. Knew what one deserves. And, above all, the costs involved.
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It’s over. Under the traffic light government, Germany will become a rip-off state. Nothing can be planned anymore. Anyone who owns a home on average and, unlike journalists, has no prospect of extra fees, can easily panic at the moment. And politicians with a good salary and carefree claims in old age see all this far too little, preferring only to take care of their own agenda.
The Corona crisis has had a huge financial impact on many people who work as freelancers. But also many employees who were sent on short-time work. They slowly recovered from it. Then came the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. And with it the explosion in gas costs. It is absolutely right and important to stand by Ukraine. The people there experience much worse.
Germany is a rich country. But whoever is not rich experiences bad things.
But in such a situation, it is not right to financially overwhelm people with any heat pump specifications. High energy costs plus inflation are burden enough. Anyone in need of care sees their own assets or that of their own children through the absurdly high cost additionally melt away. Always pay, constant increases, that’s the way of life for many of these people.
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Karl Lauterbach thinks it’s perfectly fine that many people’s inheritance goes into funding people in the homes, but one care worker replied to him on “Hart but fair”, that the residents become depressed about itthat everything is taken away from them that they have painstakingly saved over decades. And “Frontal 21” from ZDF also showed desperate pensionersto whom the home expenses take everything.
Germany is a rich country. But whoever is not rich experiences bad things. Pensions have long been taxed. Why actually? Can’t you at least leave the pensioners alone? The assessed values for land are being increased, which means that real estate will be valued so highly in the future that in the event of death the exemption limit for children of 400,000 euros will be quickly torn down and the tax state will hold out its hand.
Just as he also allows nursing homes to permanently hold out his hand. And that is exactly what will be possible in the future for all the craftsmen around the heat pump. If you live in an older house, for example one that he or she got from your parents, you can quickly have to deal with costs well over 50,000 euros, because the heat pump only heats effectively if the roof and everything around it is perfectly insulated. The craftsmen will be happy, the residents probably not. Because they are being fleeced.
You have to take people with you on the path to climate protection
“Rising energy and gas prices will make that void even bigger. Model calculations show that an additional burden of up to 5,000 euros per year is expected for a family of four. That doesn’t even include the price increases for groceries. The federal government’s answer is a relief package from the federal government of 300 euros gross per person, which does not even take pensioners and students into account. The traffic light means that a compensation has been created. That’s just insane.”
