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Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
Der Leviathan wächst!
Ich denke wir sind an diesem Punkt angekommen:
Je mehr Menschen finanziell vom Staat abhängig sind, desto grösser wird die Versuchung, seinen Einfluss, seine Leistungen und seine Finanzierung immer weiter auszudehnen.
Es gibt 3 wesentliche Treiber:
👉 Die wachsende Verlockung, sich eine sichere staatliche Anstellung zu suchen, um den Risiken des privaten Arbeitsmarktes zu entfliehen. Wer als Staatsangestellter deutlich mehr aus der Staatskasse erhält, als er selbst an Steuern einzahlt, hat einen persönlichen Anreiz, für höhere Ausgaben, mehr Staatsstellen und letztlich höhere Steuern einzutreten.
(Laut Avenir Suisse arbeiten bereits rund eine Million Menschen beim Staat auf den drei Staatsebenen oder in staatsnahen Unternehmen)
👉 Politiker wiederum bedienen diese Ansprüche, um Wählerstimmen zu gewinnen. Viele Wähler sind egoistisch geworden. (Die Frage lautet: Ist es für mich finanziell attraktiv? Und nicht: Macht es für das Land Sinn. Können wir es bezahlen? Was sind die Opportunitätskosten?)
👉 Wenn man die ca. 1.8 Mio AHV-Bezüger in der Schweiz dazuzählt (die AHV und allfällige Ergänzungsleistungen sind quasi staatliches Einkommen) haben wir wohl fast die Hälfte der Stimmberechtigten, die einen grösseren und fetteren Staat aus Eigeninteresse bevorzugen!
Ein sich selbst verstärkender Kreislauf!
Doch wo führt das hin?
Niemand scheint sich darum kümmern, dass diese Dynamik nicht unendlich weitergehen kann!
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Especially after Starlink throttled its Ukrainian service, NATO allies worry about “kill switches” in those American weapons they’re using, says @andreaskluth (via @opinion) bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
Elon, you absolute fucking moron. The Nazis were far-right fascists who destroyed labor unions, persecuted communists and socialists, and murdered political opponents. Hitler literally purged the party’s left wing.
Calling Nazis socialists because of their name is like believing North Korea is democratic because it calls itself the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Imagine being the richest man alive and still being too fucking stupid to understand history at a middle-school level. Money can buy you a platform, Elon. Apparently, it can’t buy you a functioning brain.
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
America is respected again. Red hot, I tell you. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. That i can tell you. That I can tell you.
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
Trump: we are running low on ammo not because of my war on Iran but because Biden gave “massive amounts” of Tomahawks to Ukraine.
The U.S. didn’t supply a single Tomahawk to Ukraine.
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
Russia invaded Ukraine. The first person to surrender? Trump.
Ukrainians have endured Russian missile attacks for nearly five years. Trump can’t handle US$6-a-gallon diesel for two months while sitting in a palace.
And Patel posts “From Russia, with Love…” after taking US$25k from a filmmaker with Kremlin ties? You couldn’t script this shitshow.
“A little people, a silly people.”
— Lawrence of Arabia
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
i remember when trump told india he would punish them for purchasing russian oil. us credibility now rather diminished on this point.
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
Another way to think about Trump announcement today: If he increased US diesel imports from Canada by 4%, he would gain as much fuel as from this Russia deal. But the Canadians are global super-villains, so who wants to buy from them when you could enrich Putin instead?
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
So let’s get this right Hegseth. You and your boss start a war against Iran without even informing never mind consulting your European allies, during which Iran seizes the Strait of Hormuz — which you’re now struggling to wrest back. And now you say it’s Europe’s fight rather than America’s.
No. You broke it. You fix it.
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Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
What a morally bankrupt administration. Trump’s Secretary Bessent blames Ukraine for high gas prices: “We are going through an energy shock right now due to the war in Ukraine… Ukraine has decided that they want to blow up Russian energy assets and refined products, so that is creating upward price pressure on a global basis.”
What kind of person would put a blame on a victim who is fighting for its survival and not a single word against the aggressor?
I still cannot believe people voted for this administration of complete moral bankruptcy.
Immer wenn Trump Stumpfsinn absondert ist auch Lutnick nicht weit weg.
Eine Trottelbande sondergleichen.
The country Trump is referencing in this video is Switzerland.
He takes issue with the fact that they have low interest rates.
And his arguments show how little he understands about the most BASIC economic disciplines.
Trump says Switzerland "earns $40B a year off the US" via its trade deficit.
A trade deficit is a flow of goods Americans chose to buy. It’s NOT Swiss profit.
The US runs a services surplus with Switzerland. He ignores it because it clogs the narrative
As if that's not silly enough, Swiss rates have nothing to do with trade.
The edge comes from ~0% inflation + safe-haven franc + a constitutional debt brake.
Plain stupid.
But then again, this comes from someone who wants to bomb the bond market so to be expected.
Hoffentlich merken Greer und Lutnick nicht, dass die Schweiz gerade ihr Freihandelsabkommen mit China aktualisiert..
Carney: "The U.S. introduced in the last hours, efforts to restrict our ability to have other trade deals. We're the partner of choice in many respects for countries around the world, and the Americans wanted to restrict that. Unacceptable."
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Lutnick and Greer at work. Disaster as usual.
Trump’s trade deal with Canada collapses dlvr.it/TV71Fh
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Man wird diese Kultserie von Schwachsinn dereinst vermissen, wenn der Alte abgetreten ist. Grossartiges Kino 🍿
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.?
Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
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Christoph Offenhäuser retweeted
Something makes me think Russia and China will be exempt...
Trump threatens 'tremendous economic consequences' on any country helping Iran bbc.in/4ztMM3p
