Video: CDU General Secretary Czaja: Fast help for the needy remains essential

STORY: (NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS WITHOUT SPEAKER TEXT.) CDU General Secretary Mario Czaja on Monday in Berlin on the position of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group on the subject of citizen income: “We agree that in times of high inflation, we need people with very low income, i.e. people who benefit from this basic security that they are dependent on receiving help quickly and that support is possible as early as January 1st, 2023. That is why Friedrich Merz proposed to the Presidential Board and the Federal Executive Board that the To decouple rule sets from the draft law on so-called citizen money. The federal executive board and the presidium have followed his course and the CDU/CSU parliamentary group will submit a corresponding application to the German Bundestag today.” // “Because our goal of labor market policy is not that we want to finance people permanently in unemployment, but that the goal is to get people into work and that they can live from the work of their own hands. That is a question of respect for us, of participation and also of a good coexistence in society. Hubertus Heil’s so-called citizen money wants something else. In the end, it comes down to letting the support and demands be, to let people stay in this system, not them anymore to help get out of this unemployment, but to support it permanently.” // “A big point of contention is the flat-rate amount of the savings. We don’t think it’s right that a family of four can keep cash assets of €150,000 in the account, and at the same time also have a single-family home and have their own pension scheme, by the way, while others who don’t have this wealth work hard to ensure that this family is then a recipient of basic security.”

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