"Anne Will" to age poverty: Reality check for politicians

It was more about "Anne Will" too much than too little: "Low salary, thin pension - what is worth our work?" - that was the title of the program. Still a concept, still a suggestion, still a composite noun came on the table. Basic pension, basic security, minimum wage, low-wage sector, rent-price brake, housing benefit, citizen's allowance, building allowance. Anyone who gives a course "German for advanced learners" could scrape up a lot of good material for the next vocabulary test on Sunday evening.

The "Street Credibility" of the evening: It was therefore good that Petra Vogel was there. And it was good that Guido Fahrendholz was sitting in the audience. She: Cleaner with 11.20 euro hourly wage and meager pension prospects. He: Coordinator of a Berlin emergency shelter for the homeless. The two were needed in this discussion because otherwise they would have consisted of abstract nouns. Vogel said that if in doubt, she could not afford a new washing machine, but would depend on solidarity; and her nice landlord, who does not raise her rent. Fahrendholz reported that even families and pensioners would show up in their accommodation, who could no longer afford to live.

"The entire #Rentensystem must be changed: It must be civil servants, it must be MPs and it must also pay self-employed in the coffers," says cleaning and trade unionist Petra Vogel at #AnneWill. #Pension pic.twitter.com/u3PfqHGtZX

The second level: These stories were interesting - because they did not just illustrate the discussion with a few colorful snippets, so they were not just examples of the big picture. But because they worked more like a reality check for the presented concepts. After the SPD and CDU officials had argued about which of the two parties had a better plan for a ground rent, Petra Vogel was asked if she believed she would ever receive a ground rent. Yes, said Vogel. "But she will not be enough." No matter what came from the SPD, Greens and CDU - in the end there was often the impression: It would need more.

The Responsibility Question : One fifth of full-time employees working in the low paid sector, rents at the same time rising: And who has screwed up? In a row the question went. Katrin Göring-Eckardt, group leader of the Greens, said that one had to introduce the minimum wage during their own reigns. Malu Dreyer hurried to confirm that. Later he was decided, however. Will: "13 years later." Dreyer: That was not easy with the CDU - which meant that she passed the responsibility on again. Well. In the end, everyone shared responsibility. And Anne Will's note that Petra Vogel's situation was "crappy", even though there is now the minimum wage.

"It is true that we had to introduce the minimum wage," says Malu Dreyer about the agenda reforms. #AnneWill pic.twitter.com/ye5NmIBlvH

The party dispute: The wore out Mike Mohring, Chairman of the Thuringian CDU, and the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer, SPD, from. It was about the question of which of the two parties prevented the planned basic pension. The CDU, because it insists on a means test that rejects the SPD? Or the SPD, because it insists that life-achievement is critical as a criterion that the Union does not want? Dreyer said that the Labor Minister, her associate Hubertus Heil, "will bring in the bill as we see fit, that is, without a means test". Mohring said: "If you stay on this hard line, we will not achieve anything in this legislature."

"For years it has been customary to push down the price more and more in public tenders (...) The victims were the employees (...) You have to look after your own responsibility," says Mike Mohring at #AnneWill. pic.twitter.com/1LBT8r12ju

Stabreime of the evening: While Malu Dreyer the new unbureaucratic speech of the SPD further cultivated by taking Heils word of the "respect pension", Katrin Göring-Eckardt formed a staff rhyme with "three P" to the badly caught low-wage industries to name: pizza, cleaning, packages.

"Pizza, cleaning, parcels - these three P's are the ones who are so crappy that they have to be scared afterwards: Do we still have a decent pension?" Says @GoeringEckardt at #AnneWill. pic.twitter.com/8T8KBGNFeE

The agenda ritual: Petra Vogel was under fire when she just pronounced the name "Schröder", so Anne Will pointed out that she, ie Vogel, was a unionist and since 2004 a member of the Left Party. Out of frustration over the SPD under Gerhard Schröder? "Yes, exactly," Vogel said. "If I hear that a Mr Schröder says we have created Europe's best low pay sector, then he should be ashamed. There is no good low pay sector."

The Agenda policy was defended by Reinhold von Eben-Worlée, president of the association "Die Familienunternehmer", which Anne Will quoted with a spicy statement: The SPD's new post-Hartz IV plans are a "naïve mixture of socio-political desires." you-what and complete ignorance of the financing question ". An agenda commendation, as it should have been missing in any social policy talk in recent years, thus took place here too. However, overstated in such a ritualistic way that it seemed that the agenda story was actually coming to an end.

The bouncer of the evening: He came from Petra Vogel: "I do not want a respect pension, I want a pension, with which I can age in dignity."

More about Petra Vogel you can see in the following video:

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