It is an almost absurd development, but the greater the state's debt problem, the more clearly the demographic trap on the horizon takes shape, the deeper the country slides into a self-induced recession, the stronger the state sector grows, which has to siphon off more and more economic energy from the shrinking productive sector of society.

Around 6.2 million people, or 16% of the German working population, currently work for the state, its public services or social insurance. The chart shows that the key industry that has brought about and secured Germany's economic success, the automotive industry, can no longer cushion the numerous political attacks of recent years.

Jobs are being cut here, and the clear-cutting currently being announced by Volkswagen (30,000 job cuts) will massively exacerbate this trend. Germany's prosperity is no longer on the brink, it has long been eroding and accelerating in its erosion. This irresponsible and infantile German policy is dragging the entire European continent into a deep recession and an economic structural crisis that can only be healed by breaking up these structures. The return to a free market economy, to a minimal state and the end of the submissive illusion of the omnipotence of the state must seep into people's minds.