Germany: Scholz’s ‘green’ government wants to buy 3 VIP helicopters for €200 million
By Denes Albert | Remix News | January 15, 2024
At a time when farmers are staging mass national protests over austerity measures that they say will put them under tremendous financial strain, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ministers are aiming to purchase three new, luxury VIP helicopters that will cost €200 million.
However, the budget cuts for farmers are just one austerity measure, with the total budget cut expected to be €17 billion. The opposition is reacting with outrage over the news of the helicopter purchases, with the luxury helicopters designed for Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius to attend appointments in Germany.
The German armed forces are supposed to replace the aging Cougar helicopters currently stationed in Berlin, which have a range of 850 kilometers and a cruising speed of up to 315 kilometers per hour. The VIP helicopters became famous when the former Social Democrat (SPD) Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht took her son on holiday in one of them.
The German newspaper Bild says that government officials probably suspect that citizens will not be happy about spending taxpayers’ money in a time of crisis, which is why they wanted to hide the €200 million expense.
German MPs do not recall this type of spending ever being discussed in the budget committee, and the helicopters were not included in the December budget proposal. The news is especially surprising considering German police still have so-called VIP Super Puma helicopters, which government representatives can fly in to emergency meetings.
The opposition is stunned, with Christian Democratic Union (CDU) budget expert Ingo Gädechens telling Bild that the government has lost touch with reality. He points out that the government wants to take €176 million from farmers this year, almost as much as the new helicopters cost.
“All of Germany is suffering from the collapse of fiscal policy. Austerity is everywhere,” the politician said. He added that it is obvious that Scholz’s travel convenience is the reason for the purchases and that ministers are more important than budgetary discipline.
However, Scholz may never get to experience the joy of riding a brand-new luxury helicopter, as the government cannot buy new helicopters without parliamentary approval. Now, it is up to the budget committee.
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The Scholz government is oblivious to what is actually going on in his country. What has happened is, a majority of German citizens have thrown their support behind the Farmers protests against the austerity policies of the Scholz government. Germans have come to recognize that the Farmers fight is their fight too. That what the Farmers are fighting for is in the vital interests of all Germans.
This process was characterized by American Statesman Lyndon LaRouche as the “mass strike”. It carries with it the seeds for protests all across Europe against the repressive austerity imposed by EU technocrats and the potential for changing the downward economic trajectory by reversing and replacing the austerity policies and sanction that have decimated farms and factories alike with reforms centered on economic cooperation and development of the physical economies of all nations. The financial locusts at BAE systems and Black Rock which drive the Military-Industrial-Financial complex, are responsible for the decades of permanent wars that have destroyed nations around the world. But we are many and they are few., witnessed by the mass strike protests now in progress around the world against Israeli Genocide, population wars and economic austerity. All are inhuman and in contrast to the dignity of man.
Thus the time has now come for the historic change that is now taking shape in the form of protests around the world against genocide and economic austerity. And breaking down the ethnic and religious barriers that have kept people of different religions and ethnicities apart for decades if not for centuries. And it is uniting all who are seeking Justice and economic security. It also represents a 1 in a 1000 year cataclysmic change for the universal Good that is inherent in Mankind.
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