A very worth-reading interview with Friedhelm Hengsbach on the dismantling of the welfare state.

Many good answers to what politics and business are currently presenting as alleged facts and truths, and which so many people mindlessly repeat without thinking about it. Yes, Germany is regarded as immobile, rigid, a fettered giant, it has the red lantern. Even in that chancellor's speech it was repeatedly said: Germany must get back to the top! These are the sorts of slogans that are stereotypically repeated. But they don't hold true, they are deliberate deceptions of the population, who are being taken for a ride. A gloomy picture is painted using the method of hellfire preachers, a threatening image is thrown on the wall so that people tremble and let everything be done to them. But whoever influences people in this way and exercises power through threatening gestures does not take those affected seriously; he despises them. And that cannot go well in the long run.

At Der Rollberg I found the original article.