Torchlight: Germany: Leftist SPD Party Wants Rich To Be Forced Into Giving Their Money To The State

This scary bit just in from The Local;

Behind in the polls ahead of next month’s state election, the Social Democratic candidate to become premier of Hesse, Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel, on Monday called for Germany’s rich to loan the government money to help combat the economic downturn.

Schäfer-Gümbel suggested all Germans with assets including real estate over €750,000 should be obligated to loan the government two percent of their wealth for the next 15 years at the low interest rate of 2.5 percent.

“A forced state loan would be a quick and effective instrument to mobilise extra money to tackle the economic crisis,” he told the daily paper Bild.

Schäfer-Gümbel said the government could use the money to finance state investment that would in turn help bolster the economy.

“It would be extremely fair because only those owning great wealth would be pulled in,” he told the paper.

Schäfer-Gümbel faces an uphill climb to convince voters in Hesse that he should become their next premier following his party’s failed attempt to build a left-wing minority government last autumn. He became the Social Democratic (SPD) point man in the state only after Andrea Ypsilanti broke her campaign promise that she would not try to work with the hard-line socialist Left party after last January’s election in Hesse.

It now appears likely that incumbent Roland Koch, head of the conservative Christian Democrats in the state, will likely win the vote next month despite being punished at the polls last time for running a divisive campaign.

Opportunistic Marxist swine; the sad thing is that they could actually do this.

This is how it begins; taking measures for the good of the government. First we force the rich, since they owe the state of course, to loan their money for the benefit of the state. That is to continue to finance the ever widening program of buying voters through populist lies. Of course when this works, then there is nothing to stand in the way of appropriating the wealth of those dirty capitalists entirely; for the good of the state. Once this is complete, then why stop there? Property ownership is contradictory to the good of the state. An immediate seizure of all property would surely benefit the state. People matter little, their collective worth is merely a tool of the state.

Are you people so scared of responsibility, so impotent in your lives, so lazy, that you would deliberately destroy your freedoms in order to have an authoritarian government to babysit you from here to eternity? Shame on you! You people who voted for the left are a disgrace to every able bodied, free thinking man and woman in Europe, as well as those who sacrificed so much to make us who we are. Shame on you, for your impotence and inability to stand on your own two feet! Most importantly, shame on you for disgracing the memory of those great Europeans who passed the torch of civilization onto groveling, cowardly creatures like yourself who can’t even be bothered to work for a living or defend your own culture.

Torchlight

acta non verba
Nobody consulted us in the sale of our lands and the destruction of our culture. As our leaders have betrayed and failed us, the time for conscientious observation has passed. The battle has already spilled into the streets and we now stand on the brink. If you be for Europe, western Judeo-Christian values, and the survival of your culture, then stand and be heard!

Quotes

THOMAS JEFFERSON
To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, 'the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE
Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom; socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
RONALDUS MAGNUS
How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an Anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
AYN RAND
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ
"Given the same amount of intelligence, timidity will do a thousand times more damage than audacity."

June 2010