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Members’ salaries
Every member’s seat - regardless of how many members have occupied it since the founding of the Federal Republic of
Germany – is responsible for the total debt of the FRG as defined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to the
level of € 20 billion each. This is a great deal of money, and will be even more if the total debt of the Federal
Republic of Germany including Target-2 claims the European Central Bank in central bank transactions within the
countries of the European Monetary Union are taken into account, which are here shown as obligations against the
Deutsche Bundesbank and also exist as claims against the ECB in the current amount of € 750 billion. To this must
be added the German share of 27% of high-risk junk government bond purchases by the ECB, whether on the primary or
secondary market. Every member is therefore responsible on average for enormous negative efficiency for their
activities – nothing positive has been achieved by them since the foundation of the Federal Republic of Germany in
1949.
If anything at all positive can be seen with regard to the still highly indebted real assets within the Federal
Republic of Germany, the positive activity of the members lies in the majority decisions in which they took part
mainly with regard to the conversion of the budgetary sovereignty of the German Bundestag as sovereign of the
Federal Republic of Germany, and on behalf of the people of Germany who ultimately stand surety for it.
This budget sovereignty has become debt sovereignty by the totality of the members of the German Bundestag. All
restructuring efforts only drive the debt higher; 2/3 were incurred mainly by CDU-run Governments, and 1/3 under
Social Democratic Chancellors
These abject performances must be contrasted with members’ salaries and expenses. On average they correspond to no
scale, because such performances demand remuneration. The Alliance for Democracy calls for performance-related
salaries for representatives of the people. The disgraceful level of debt which is promulgated by the Merkel
government as the so-called rescue of the Euro is no longer acceptable. The room for manoeuvre of the Chancellor
and her staff has committed the Germans to long-term payments which are actually no longer supportable.
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