Friday, April 9, 2010
Now Tilts pension guarantee?
Berlin --
Decided in May, now "legacy"? The pension guarantee would be gone! FDP and Economic experts have called das
In the coalition talks, the pension is so high on the agenda. The unions are up in arms.
The rent guarantee is unaffordable, unnecessary, and urgently needs to go, "said Klaus Zimmermann, president of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). "The guarantee is a millstone around the necks of the taxpayers, prevented the restoration of the pension funds. It is fiscally sensible to get rid of this legacy as quickly as possible. "
For the FDP, the pension guarantee, a crux of the coalition rounds. Henry L. Kolb, spokesman for the labor market liberals, takes part in the negotiations. He told the Express: "The financing of the pension is a basic component of the negotiations on the coalition agreement."
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Hermann Otto Solms, as a future FDP acting finance minister, makes the thrust clear: "We want to connect the bond permanently to the increase in wages. The pension guarantee destroys trust in the reliability of politics. "The Security pensioners would forecast. "You have to pay later, the artificial increase. This is a fraud on pensioners! "
For the unions would be an abolition of the "straight-only warranty" in spite of an absurdity. IG Metall spokeswoman Ingrid Gier: "We think of absolutely nothing. Workers who have paid their lives to contribute to a right of security. "Would be a reason for abolishing even strikes? "We take one step after another. It is certain we would not like such a back and forth. "
Annelie Buntenbach, board member of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), told the Express: Pension Guarantee "The needs remain, because it can not be that pensioners will suffer losses, as confirmed by short-time jobs. We warn the pensioners of what is now guaranteed in the years to pull back out of the bag. "
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