Plant closures

Mr. K leads a modest life. His house is paid off, he gets his firewood from the forest and his family has had a small business for generations. Now he has to close down.

But why does it have to close?
Competition, large supermarkets in the neighboring town. But his old regular customers have remained. Profits have fallen. But it would be enough if the lower income also meant lower compulsory expenditure. But in Austria, there is a minimum contribution of EUR 240 per month to the social insurance for trade and industry. What do you do if your monthly profit is only EUR 500? Shut down and draw welfare benefits. There is no other way out.

Either successful or off to the welfare ghetto
There is nothing in between. That is the dividing line in the two-tier society. The old man cannot lead a simple, tranquil life in his familiar surroundings, chatting to his customers and selling a few things. That doesn't fit into the model of a meritocracy that wants to whip everyone into maximum economic success. Losers are banned from working and in the eyes of the absolute meritocracy, anyone who does not strive for the highest profit is a loser. Someone wants to live modestly. That's not allowed! A saboteur of the meritocracy! A denier of achievement! An enemy of economic growth! Off to social welfare with this eccentric!

Human right to work
It will be interesting to see how the creators of this two-tier system will justify these blatant human rights violations.

Politics - political targets of PEGE
	Nonpolitical, pragmatic, on the other side of ideologies counts in our politic only one target: A long time lasting civilization able to develop further on a stable base.

Philosophy
	Long-term planning and stability have to be the guiding rules of politics. A philosophy based on the mathematic branch of games theory.

Living standard
	What is living standard? How is living standard correctly measured? Is it possible, that our living standard declines drastic, while uncorrect numbers want to make us belive it's like paradise?

Taxes tax politics
	The consequences of the tax politic for humans and environment. The politicians claim to fight for humans and the environment, but the tax politics shows the exact opposit.

Energy politic
	Decades of wrong energy politic. Instead of more living standard with less energy usage, partial the contrary was reached. A result of the wrong tax politic.

Human right to work
	No human rights violations? Anyone who denies the serious violations of the human right to work is accusing 5 million Germans of not wanting to work.

Human right to family
	No human rights violations? Then why do so many people give up their families and children? Or the fox for whom the grapes are too sour because they are hanging far too high for him.

Forced childlessness
	Politicians complain that the higher earners have fewer children on average than the poorer sections of the population. But politics is the cause of this.

Forced savings for 20 years of vacation
	The remaining life expectancy of 65-year-olds in Germany in 2010 will already be 17.1 years for men and 20.8 years for women. A society is falling apart because of the pension system.

Human right to honesty
	A system that forces many people to be dishonest is wrong. A system where many people can only survive because they are dishonest is wrong.

Human right to a future
	A system that acts as if there is no future is wrong. A system that is not able to create a positive future for people is wrong.