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Heiner Geißler – a conservative who thinks
Helmut Kohl's former Secretary General is 85 and a member of the anti-globalisation organisation attac. He is of
the opinion that economic policy needs to be urgently reformed. This was also recently demanded by the head of the
ECB Mario Draghi, so that the governments of the euro countries are called upon to develop and submit ideas.
Geißler is of the opinion that the current economic order was wrong, inhuman and deadly. The individual was nothing
more than a cost factor – for health and education there was no money, as the euro European budgets have been
emptied or - even worse - hopelessly over-indebted. Politicians have sacrificed the needs of people for the
interests of the financial markets. Geißler is calling for an international financial transaction tax for
currency traders and speculators, so that they would no longer act simply in order to do business, but in the
interests of society as a whole; furthermore, the top CDU politician is calling for efforts to be undertaken in
Germany for recognition of the fact that the problems can be solved if Europe does indeed become a political
union. Geißler might mean a new constitution; this is also the opinion of People for Democracy, who have drawn
up such a constitution. This can be found in our publication
"Das deutsche Desaster" ("The German disaster").
It is high time for the introduction of a new constitution with significant co-determination on the part of the
people, as all chancellors since 1949 have systematically abolished the
co-determination of the people
and replaced it with a
party dictatorship
which today is taking the liberty of serving high finance, above all because it is not able to take any other form
of action due to the ailing constitution of the national economy.
These machinations are presented to the people as saving the euro; the current dispute with Greece, which wants
to turn its back on the debt alliance, is depicted as a floundering wish to escape. The propaganda scarcely
conceals the fact of how much the Germans participated in the Greek debt crisis, and it is also kept secret that
the German budget is no better than the Greek one, since 60 per cent of Germans no longer believe in
German democracy.
No euro country is now able to survive. All of the tricks and lies of the politicians, lobbyists and financial
jugglers have resulted in
parity
between the euro and the dollar, a drop in all performance levels and finally to the
haircut.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) once suggested taking the level of debt in 2007 as a guideline for
correcting the indebtedness. The IMF wanted to achieve this through the introduction of a 10 per cent savings
tax and a 10 per cent property tax. The measures were supposed to be extended, but the IMF showed after the
Lehman crash in 2008 that it was no longer acting in its capacity as the
corrector
of the world's finances. Only the level of indebtedness has risen since then by almost half.
Geißler, who during his time in office also tackled very controversial topics, showed by joining attac that it
is above all the CDU members who can convert from Saul to Paul. The predominantly left-wing political objectives
which Geißler strongly denounced during his active period as a champion of the conservatives even went so far as
to accuse creative left-wing and liberal artists and politicians of being "supporters of terror" (meaning the
attacks of the Red Army Faction), for example Helmut Gollwitzer, Heinrich Albertz, Günter Wallraff, Herbert
Marcuse and Federal Minister of the Interior Werner Maihofer. However, it was also Heiner Geißler who - alluding
to the role of Helmut Kohl - called the CDU a "party with a leader cult" (Die Woche, October 13, 1995). At the
time his office as Deputy Chairman of the fraction was questioned. Today, Geißler questions the entire policy
and appears to be escaping the party dictatorship due to his mental mobility. We wait anxiously to find out what
the purged Geißler still has to say about the old, new debate about capitalism. In the meantime we hope that he
has read the book by Thilo Bode
"Die Freihandelslüge" ("The Free Trade Lie")
or also the book by Sarah Wagenknecht:
"Freiheit statt Kapitalismus" ("Freedom instead of Capitalism")
– we are pleased to suggest these as intellectual reading material for a "de-conserved" thinker; as well as to all
our readers.
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