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After we have accumulated debts of well over two trillion euros, our education and infrastructure can hardly keep up with those in the countries of the supposedly third world, and we only have balanced national budgets because there is no longer anyone responsible for them who can still calculate , completely new benefits are now coming our way.
Everything will be free: school education, training, driving a car, local public transport, contraception, kindergartens and so on and immediately. Politics is bubbling over with ideas!
One thing should be clear to all of us: nothing comes for free, even a politician has to earn the respect of his voters.
And regardless of the fact that all "flat rate" countries have had to file for bankruptcy after 40 years at the latest, and that the hundred thousandth attempt is therefore doomed to failure, another not entirely insignificant fact comes into play with the latest promises, namely the power of the factual .
Even if you had all the money in the world, you can't just promise people everything.
'Cause it's not possible
- to also assure a person who decides to live in the wilderness that within five minutes an ambulance will be on the spot, which will then take them to a full-fledged hospital in a few minutes;
- to assure parents of all-round care for their children;
- to put a bus or tram in front of every citizen's door;
- to guarantee citizens internal and external security.
Simply because
- we cannot force anyone to want to become a doctor in Hintertupfingen or even a teacher far away;
- it is not possible to provide infrastructure at every point in the world;
- people are just people.
If we continue to adhere to our fully comprehensive mentality, the "we want to do everything and nothing for it" claim, then ... everything is really in vain!
"It's not the years, honey. It's the mileage."
Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
