For the Federal Chancellor, the leader of the opposition may walk like "Alice in Wonderland", he himself drew the picture of a country in which milk and honey flow in the Bundestag on Wednesday.
The cornucopia poured out by the budget of the traffic light parties penetrates into every corner of the economy and society.
The level of debt is so high and wide that an overview is hardly possible.
Scholz therefore also left it, with an obvious socio-political bias, with the beacons, which are easier to justify under the conditions of the “difficult times” that Germany is going through than without them.
Scholz countered criticism with the remark that Friedrich Merz conjured the white talking rabbit out of the hat.
In doing so, the chancellor covered up the impression that the mascot for the state that the coalition wants is the jack of all trades.
Again: we can do it!
Scholz focused his one-year review on what “this” federal government had done.
He apparently still believes he is in danger of being overshadowed by the past CDU-led government.
In the enumeration of the crisis-related achievements, the sentence almost escaped his lips: We can do it!
Both are involuntarily reminders that Germany, according to the bon mot of a social democrat, is being steered by a reliable pilot, but you just don't know where the plane will land.
The greatest vulnerability that Scholz and his government are making is certainly the "breach of promise" denounced by Merz on the defense budget.
But even in energy policy, which is probably the greatest test, words and deeds do not match.
Scholz affirms that he is open to technology, secures prosperity and enjoys growth.
One only has to say "nuclear power" to see that none of this is true.
The hope of the traffic light is that its course - renewables plus hydrogen - will bring success as quickly as liquid gas.
You ask yourself: If Merz is in Wonderland, then where is Scholz?