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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1410071)	7/11/2023 7:21:27 PM
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Pensioners Must Give Way to Migrants Posted on July 11, 2023 by Baron Bodissey If I were a native German, the following article would make my blood boil. The German mindset and temperament are different from those of an ornery American, however. It seems they’re willing to endure a lot of humiliation and exploitation before taking action to change their collective circumstances. Many thanks to Hellequin GB for translating this article from the Austrian site AUF1. The translator’s comments are in square brackets: “No lifetime achievement”: Government adviser wants to abolish widows’ pensions The economist Monika Schnitzer, chairwoman of the federal government’s panel of experts, absurdly dubbed “Wirtschaftsweise” (Economy Wise), has called for the widow’s pension to be abolished. In doing so, she flatly denies the lifetime achievements of pensioners who have raised children and run the household. However, the “expert” has no problem with the lifelong full support of millions of immigrants. On the contrary: Schnitzer had just called for the immigration of another 1.5 million supposedly “skilled workers” to Germany, and in all seriousness complained about an allegedly missing “welcoming culture”. Millions of unskilled migrants, on the other hand, are “welcome” At the same time, she now wants to reduce the old-age benefits of local women, calling for the abolition of widows’ pensions. This is drawn by four million women after not they, but their deceased husbands, paid for it. It’s set at 55% of her dead husband’s pension. Schnitzer, who advocates for a policy that smuggles millions and millions of completely unqualified migrants directly into lifelong full subsistence through the social systems, actually justifies her proposal to end widows’ pensions by saying that these are drawn without their (the widows’) own lifetime achievements. Pension-splitting required To top it all off, she said: “The current regulation reduces the incentives to take up your own employment.” In addition, “single contributors” would be defrauded, who “contribute to the financing of pension entitlements for non-working partners, who themselves are not paying into the system”. [What about all those generations of migrants who NEVER paid into anything and are only receiving? But I guess that would be racist, wouldn’t it?] As an alternative, Schnitzer proposed pension splitting, in which all pension entitlements acquired by one or both partners during a marriage should be split in half. As soon as one partner dies, the other would receive half of the jointly earned pension entitlements — plus the entitlements earned through their own work during the marriage. Denigrated as a freeloader Schnitzer presented this plan at a panel discussion of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). She explained that these were only her personal views and not the position of the “economic wise men” as a whole. The way she reduces women’s lifetime achievement to mere numbers shows how much the standards have shifted, and not only in Germany. Women who have had and raised children, and thus done more for society than the legions of state-paid accommodating scientists, quota politicians and NGO employees who haunt Germany with their non-existent expertise, are now downright degraded by Schnitzer as parasites. [Coming from a “wealthy” parasite that’s calling the kettle black, isn’t it?] A disrespect beyond compare She, herself a beneficiary of public money, portrays widows’ pensioners as collecting unjustified benefits for which they did nothing; an unparalleled disrespect. It was precisely these women who were the backbone in the development of the prosperity that is now being squandered at breathtaking speed. But Schnitzer and her supposedly “wise” colleagues never uttered a single word of criticism. She prefers to work on people who no longer have any lobby and are at best still wanted as pay donkeys for the political madness in Germany. Afterword from the translator: That woman has three daughters, but I guess they are ‘career’ girls and most likely will not have children of their own. I wonder if one of those daughters were to become a stay-at-home mom and housewife and raise her grandchildren… Does she want to deprive her for all the work she’s done on her family’s and husband’s behalf? It looks like it. On the other hand, she has most likely squirreled away quite a bit of “lobby benefits” and with a full governmental pension. No matter how much pension money of the German people they squander on those who never paid into the fund, she’ll live quite comfortably, and her daughters most likely too. A widow’s pension, for normal Germans, is between 55% and 60% of the husband’s/wife’s pension; that’s not much in my eyes. After all, one person is subtracted from the monthly grocery bill, but all the other costs stay roughly the same. And to get this much, the woman has to be at least 47 years old and a lot of other things besides the red tape to jump through. While these migrants are granted anything they wish for. Entire villages and hotel-complexes have been built in Turkey by “migrants” over the years with all the benefits they receive from the German government, and now, since they destroyed the goose that laid their golden nest-eggs, they need more money to pay the jizyah, and what easier way for these monsters than to take that money from those who are vulnerable?