CTH noted several months ago, end the Marshall Plan for Europe and things will change quickly.
Germany is in a tight economic place as a result of: (1) former leftist Chancellor Olaf Scholz alignment with climate change policy, radically changing the German energy base and driving up costs; (2) the financial support for Ukraine; (3) the financial burden of mass African/ME migration, and (4) the new Trump-era EU tariffs that effectively end the Marshall Plan.
Put all four elements together and the German economic contraction is only forecast to worsen. This is the reality that current German Chanceller Fredrich Merz is facing. Thus, as a non-pretending former businessman, Merz recently told his party and the German electorate that current financial conditions no longer support the expansive entitlement state.
Pensions, benefits and even healthcare are potentially going to be impacted. Germans are not happy.
GERMANY – The German welfare state is no longer financially sustainable, Friedrich Merz said on Saturday. The chancellor argued for a fundamental reassessment of the benefits system as spending continues to soar past last year’s record of €47bn (£40bn).
In a state-level party conference meeting on Saturday, Mr Merz said: “The welfare state as we have it today can no longer be financed with what we can economically afford.”
Once the export champion of Europe, Germany’s economy has slowed dramatically since 2017, with GDP growing by only 1.6 per cent since then versus 9.5 per cent for the rest of the eurozone.
Germany’s economy shrank by 0.2 per cent last year following a 0.3 per cent dip in 2023 – the first time since the early 2000s the economy has retreated two years in a row.
Industrial production fell under the Left-leaning “traffic light” coalition of Olaf Scholz and continues to slide under the new government, with GDP declining by 0.3 per cent in the second quarter of 2025.
Meanwhile, spending on social welfare has exploded, and is set to increase further this year as Germany’s population ages and unemployment rises. Although the majority of benefit recipients are German, large numbers are non-German citizens.
[…] Germany has in place a so-called “debt brake”, which limits how much the government can borrow to fund its spending plans.
Mr Merz’s views on the welfare state are likely to provoke discontent among his Social Democratic Party (SDP) coalition partners, whom he relies on for a thin majority in the Bundestag.
[…] Lars Klingbeil, the SPD leader and vice-chancellor, hit back at Mr Merz’s announcement with calls for increased taxation on top earners. He called for a summit focused on helping industry leaders respond or adapt to US tariffs and said “no option is off the table” when it comes to plugging the 30-billion-euro gap in Germany’s budget. (more)
A note of caution. Historically speaking, when the German economy gets bad enough, Europe ends up in a war.
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Wow. Europe is dumber than Americans when it comes to hostile invasions via skin pigment and pagan religions. They are going to ride that jackass into oblivion.
Auf Wiedersehen. Au revoir. Adiós. Tot ziens. Adjö. Αντίο.
Will this mean the end of their languages too?
They use the hostile invaders to cow the natives into submission, just like here. This invasion is an act of brutal dictatorial control.
And, it is also used to stamp out the Christian faith in Europe. In the US, the illegals aliens are largely Catholic. In Europe, they are Islamic. It dawned on me that the literal attack on churches and Christian festivals by Muslims is an articulation of an EU objective. The EU is trying to eradicate the Christian faith and the Muslims are the foot soldiers. There is a disturbing parallel between the EU objective and the third reich.
Finally, Germany at least will have to give up its crazy welfare programs and months of vacation time for all, the nipple of the American taxpayer having been removed. I’ve been waiting for this. I am pleased.
I am waiting for the Germans to be strong, to be proud, and for Germany, to be a force for good, not a leftist bastion of corruption.
Ahh yes,WWI and WWII……the good ole days. Ever wonder why the us has 28k troops in France and Germany?
Nobody trusts a unified Germany!
The characteristics that made Germans dangerous have been largely eradicated via decades of far-left brainwashing in the schools. Anyone exhibiting those attitudes publicly is swiftly dealt with by the woke police state. One POS decried racism against migrants after an afghan raped and murdered his daughter. He even asked people to send funds to support migrant NGOs in lieu of flowers.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
I remember ‘working the line’ at EWR, seeing the numerous German ‘dink’ (double income, no kids) couples, in transit to their 4-6 week vacations in Costa Rica, etc.
I wonder if they will still be doing that, next summer???
make bo mistake, all roads leed to population eradication
BINGO! Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
I think PP should be declared a world-wide terro%ist organization!
The pertinent question to ask:who’s behind that host’s country population replacement?what leverage ‘they’ have on these pseudo-leaders who are willingly assisting in the demise of their own citizens? The USS Liberty is a good example but to coin Sundance’s beautiful word it’s better to “pretend”…
https://www.revelationoutpost.com/from-the-horses-mouth.html
https://www.bitchute.com/video/8zzxOaleG5dd
I really wonder if its “pod people” i.e aliens from another Universe or dimension; preferrable to depopulate, while leaving infrastructure intact, rather than blow everything up, ala “Independeance Day”.
For what….chicken nuggets? To be honest, any civilization advanced enough to reach us has absolutely no use for our primitive infrastructure.
P.S. if its actually you Dutch, its damn good to read you.
Long time no see Dutch! How’s it going? We’ve missed you! Prayers!
Yes, in the long run… the newest ‘immigrants’ in Europe do Not learn the language(s) – and do not assimilate, period.
There will be a smattering of Europe-language speakers in the 22nd century… but it may be consist of dedicated hobbyists – I believe I read there are about 1 million speakers of Esperanto, worldwide.
That may be the fate of German and other European tongues by 2125.
Probably
Over the coming years, Germany will provide Ukraine with €9 billion annually, stated German Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“As Finance Minister, I emphasized, and this has also been agreed upon by the Federal Government, that we are committed to supporting Ukraine in the coming years, spending €9 billion annually,” Klingbeil said.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/germany-to-give-ukraine-9-billion-annually-1756131060.html
I would be curious as to the true Ukraine GDP expectations post the hopeless war.
Ditto
So we have money to support another country s war but we cannot support our own people?
Crazy times and Germans have their priority’s backwards
Only AfD can save Germany’s social net for its native-born Saxon citizens.
Dresden:
Germany Fallen: 21-Year-Old AMERICAN HERO Speaks Out After Standing Up to Rapey Migrants and Getting NOSE SLASHED
oops, I see it was posted upthread
“Neither Lampedusa, nor Brussels, being European!”
Institut Iliade
Thank you for this video, fantastic. How often to we hear of Europe as a civilization, continent, and culture worth preserving?
I have a photo of myself in our town’s local newspapers as 6th grade Santa Lucia with a crown of candles in a school play back in 1956! Don’t think you could put that up today. It would be anti-semitic, racist or something.
German Chancellor Merz Says Entitlement Programs No Longer Sustainable
And just like that, they ran out of others peoples money when the USA was not longer the detached indulgent parent supporting them.
If America is the parent, then it is the drug addicted, gambling addicted, spend what you don’t have sort of parent.
No
Not altogether false. Parterners in licentiousness. A sincere effort to reverse this is underway.
“Germany is in a tight economic place as a result of: (1) former leftist Chancellor Olaf Scholz alignment with climate change policy, radically changing the German energy base and driving up costs; (2) the financial support for Ukraine; (3) the financial burden of mass African/ME migration, and (4) the new Trump-era EU tariffs that effectively end the Marshall Plan.”
Merz could have easily reversed the first three of these conditions by entering into a coalition with the AfD. He obviously did not and does not want to reverse these conditions.
I don’t know too much about his career outside of politics, but I understand he held a high position at BlackRock. That doesn’t sound too good to me. He seems to be following a globalist agenda. Frankly, I don’t think he has the best interests of the German people at heart.
To fight now, something that may or may not happen in one hundred years. Destroy rapidly hundreds of years of invention and raising the human standard of living throughout the World. Society suicide. Around the World the programs do not achieve anything except erase history.
Wait!! What?!?!? You mean, that an economic system built upon the generosity of outsiders could contract or collapse when that generosity dissipates after 80 years!?!? Who on Earth could have ever foreseen this? WW2 only ended 80 years ago! The money (created) was supposed to pour in for a millennium! How could this be allowed to happen?!?!? Uh, the US is trying to stop being the world’s bitch. Wow. Typing it like that makes it seems so much more real. I’ve lived my whole life with the US being everyone’s bitch. Even the Soviets, during the Cold War, we were FEEDING them. Our betters really need a believable enemy.
Don’t get me wrong, we have enemies, always have. But when you’re feeding your enemy just so they can continue to be your enemy? Doesn’t sound so different, when broken down, to our relationship to Western/Northern Europe for the last 80 years.
I would like a good reference as to how, other then defence spending, the marshal plan has conntinued. A link would be appreciated.
What defense spending?
France floats 1 carrier, UK floats none,Germany…..lol,they fly AWACS…thats their contribution. Our allies can no longer project force,they are allies in name only.
Not even that, with all their new ME visitors. I wob’t call them citizens.
You do know it wasn’t actually called The Marshall Plan right? Maybe we should start calling it by its official name….
European Recovery Plan which congress passed in 1948. Have they recovered yet?
Brookfield (modular housing and modular high rises) just opened an office in Germany a few days ago.
Canada’s Carney, in bed with Brookfield, secretly showed up in Ukraine. Mentioned ‘Reconstruction’.
And now, Carney is heading to Germany.
THINK. – It’s all about MONEY.
Europe and Germany sound like it is sliding down the same slide that got them into World War II. Broke, hungry and desperate some idiot will come along and repeat what Hitler did… They and we learned nothing so we are sentenced to a repeat ??
History only teaches one lesson and yes as a species we are doomed to repeat it.
Humans remain exactly as they were 4.5 million years ago. Distinctly individual tribes all competing for the same limited earth resource. Only.thing that has changed is today the tribes are larger and far more lethal. The lesson is simple
There will always be another war so, you can prepare for it or perish in it.
That last sentence, “Historically speaking, when the German economy gets bad enough, Europe ends up in a war” and this past week’s outbursts of Zelensky threatening Hungary then followed by Ukraine’s actions bombing of the oil pipeline of Hungary makes one think Germany and the UK’s plan is exactly that – widen the war, to stop President Trump, make the Marshall Plan great again.
Europe really needs to grow up, deal with their own spats and leave the rest of the world out of it.
Churchill said of the Germans…..
“The Hun…..at your throat, or at your feet..”
Churchill loves war. WW2 was avoidable.
But NEITHER side wanted to avoid it.
Poor idiots.
Instead of importing low IQ unemployable immigrants they should have encouraged family and childbirth of the original population. They have proven to be able to create a powerful economy. Have more children, get a tax incentive. Only if you work. As it is now if you are unemployable, you get a bonus for having more children. Immigrants are eligible for everything…automatically. No need to work, just have kids.
And we are counting on Germany and the other EU crowd to pay us for the armaments we send them to give to Ukraine.
They can promise us what they want but these EU clowns don’t have two nickels to rub together. In the meantime it’s said that we are running very low on military items as well .
Did the U.S ever get paid by the Allies and China for the stuff sent under FDR’s Lend Lease program ?
” … the financial burden of mass African/ME migration … “
Hmm.
I just now thought of USAid as the slush fund that funded the rape and destruction of Europe.
I should have understood that much earlier.
Well put.
Anyone else who, as they were reading this, thank God for the gazillionth time that He allowed us a second Trump term????
How often during the day I offer a word of thanks. The real question is if we can get congress to codify PDJT’s EO’s, etc—or await a fate like the EU countries.
But we were given a small window and a lion. I don’t know why, but I am grateful.
Die Hühner kommen nach Hause zum Rosten.
Cluck cluck squawwk!
Germany’s huge commitment to “green energy” and their dismantling fossil fuel generation was mentioned only in passing. A major factor here, if I understand things right.
“A note of caution. Historically speaking, when the German economy gets bad enough, Europe ends up in a war.”
Oh come now. Don’t the German intellectual heirs of Cloward & Piven specifically say that they need an unsustainable* welfare state to prevent Nazism? Surely they wouldn’t lie?
*As Mr. Bob notes above, they could easily fix it. They choose not to.
Ain’t I been SAYIN it?
Well, ain’t I? The destruction of the EU proceeds apace, once they “run out of” other peoples money.
Dutchman,
💕🙏 !
Ya think importing millions of unemployable savages and giving them free housing, food and medicare might have had something to do with it?
Well, this will be interesting, with all their new muslim, “citizens”.
Europe is incapable of fighting another large scale war. They shut down the only two forges they had. They cannot fire them because they cannot afford the startup cost. One of them was an aluminum super forge. The energy required to make aluminum if off the charts. They are dead men walking
Feed the Children… What a FARCE….. This is what you get.