I'll keep this short since I plan to do a long-form on this topic.

I've spent the day with my Mum because she called me in the morning crying to let me know that social services has refused to pay the €600 back payment on her 2024 utility bills. for those who don't know, in Germany you pay a fixed amount on your utilities including heating, garbage etc estimated on your consumption of the previous year.

Since water, electricity, garbage, landlords home insurances and co have gone up 100-200% (depending on the utility) she's been hit with over €600. Social has now decided to give her €124 stating on the letter that she needs to manage her utility consumption better. The atrocity of this is out of this world.

Our elders, those who've paid their dues all their life, those who've rebuild this country are literally being abandoned while others who come to this country get full dentals, full payment of rents, deposits, utilities, back payments FFS they even get money to buy a fucking car.

So I spent the day comforting my mother and I'm going on Monday to file an official complaint at social services while pressing charges with the social court at the same time.

We're getting to a point where the actions of the government and their treatment of our elders is unacceptable.

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Good luck. Sounds like a horrible situation. Hopefully you get something resolved.

She'll be alright but the guts to tell a retired woman, living in a tiny place, to manage her utility usage better (in writing) is not only unacceptable, it's respect less, rude and cannot be tolerated. The utilities have gone up 100's of percent that's not her wrong doing. That woman has paid her dues her entire life and now, since she's oc paid the bill they serve her with such a letter on her tiny pension. She literally has less than €100 of her pension left for this month since she didn't expect to have this rejected.

Fortunately her son has Bitcoin.

thanks. just something we'll have to do no matter what the outcome will be. There is many people facing the same or worse and the media is putting a lid on it.

This is disgusting.

very

Wow, seems like the societal decay is only accelerating as time goes by.

Well, they're giving the money to everyone else who isn't German. The things I see, you don't even want to know.

Sounds like a good conversation for a round 2 on my podcast, if you feel OK with it.

Yes absolutely. I'll share the docs tomorrow need to censor some stuff first. See, I'm alright with them not covering the entire bill though they should but telling her they're not paying because she's not managing her utility usage as expected by them is ridiculous. And if you knew here you'd know that she's not a person who has the lights on all day, heaters running on max or cooks all day. The costs have exploded and that's the real reason why she got hit by such an insane backpayment.

the anger shows in my typos.

Damn, I think people should totally hear about this. How many cases like these aren't being talked about? We can do a shotgun podcast whenever you're ready, I'll have some free time tomorrow so I'll send you a booking link through discord.

Many they just don't make mainstream news. See the comment to Slayer. There is plenty of people talking about these things just not mainstream media.

Blow up the building.

Or try the legal route first, might be worth a shot.

Sorry for the situation, that sucks

It has crossed my mind but that's not a solution to a nation wide situation. She'll be alright, I'll make sure of that but I wont let this slip either. Just can't share the docs right now, too much personal information.

Not a complete solution, nor one I'd advise carrying out before you're much older (and stand to do less jail time due to naturally shorter life).

Lucky for her you are able to help her out 🫂

Yeah, I'm not a blowing up shit kind of guy. 😉

Well there’s your problem.

Until you’re ready to do what must be done, nothing changes

Blowing up buildings with people inside who're just trying to do their job while being spit in the face by people who take advantage of the broken social system is not a solution.

Fair point. Was kidding... mostly

I’m not kidding, at all.

I've often wondered why 80 year olds don't do more such things.

Because today’s 80 year olds are Boomers. Read what Bucky said about kids and television and realise on that point he was 180 degrees wrong.

Will have to revisit, unless it's near very end, where I left off

Find a job which doesnt require parasitism off productive people 🤷‍♂️

6-figures worth of people have to go for the rest of us to move forward. Don’t let your sentimentality get in the way.

I'm so sorry to hear about the suffering she has to experience 😓, hope the complaint will help.

Last year I rented a place in the Netherlands, 750€ / month during a very mild winter. then my heating bill was srill €250(!!!!) a month, a f*ckin third of the rent on just heating.

That's insane!!

Ridiculous. They sending that cash to wage war. Germany is the largest GDP in the EU as well.

I'm very angry right now

Ya these EU leaders are going to cause a huge revolution in Europe

LFG!

They're give most of it to our Ukrainian visitors. See, if you're looking for a job the job centre will tell you that it's acceptable for a national to travel up to 150km by train every day to get to work. if you're from the Ukraine they'll give you the money to buy a car.

excuse me a CAR?!

German public transit isn’t extremely shit and even in places where it is people use it.

May justice be done swiftly in your favour. This is despicable and evil to say the very least, especially given that this is the gvt’s fault; both the mishap and the inflated prices

thank you!

Good man. Stay strong.

Please remember its court. And games are played on courts.

The social courts used to be pretty good in this country. We'll see.

The actions of the government have always been unacceptable, but it just takes time for people to be hit with the realization. I'm not sorry it's taken so much from her, and I hope you are able to get through this ordeal as smoothly as possible, but I also know fighting against tyranny is an uphill battle, and almost always ends in heartbreak.

I've 💯 been there. It's splitting what's left of my family apart (only 3 of us now).

Fuck. My keyboard inserted "not", because I say "I'm not" all the time

You got a point but in the last few years things have spun out of control. Pretty much since the 2020 pandemic bullshit

I know, my mom died in 2023 and I'm still dealing with the probate of her estate.

Ffs that’s ruff

I'm sorry for your loss!

🙏

thank you for your kind words. She'll be alright but the atrocity wont go unchallenged.

🫂

En algún momento todo se descontroló en el mundo y en nombre de un mejor estilo de vida muchos gobiernos han hecho lo impensable con sus ciudadanos para lograr ese fin.

La pregunta es, cuando nos toque a toda nuestra generación enfrentar esto, habrá alguien que levante su voz contra estos atropellos? #asknostr #hola #hispano

Lo que al menos yo le estoy enseñando a mi círculo cercano es que yo doy por perdido todo lo que está chupando las AFP y ahorro para mi retiro por mi cuenta, en bitcoin por supuesto.

A veces pienso será suficiente?

Es hora de salir a la calle. Me sorprende que los españoles no se rebelen más. Me recuerdo cuando coches y camiones bloquearon carreteras durante días por un aumento de 10 céntimos en la gasolina. ¿Qué pasó?

Hay nuevas generaciones que están desarrollando otro tipo de rebeldía. El tema es si alcanzará para reclamar lo justo cuando sea necesario?

La nueva generación está tan atrapada en sus teléfonos móviles que no tiene tiempo para salir a la calle. Para un país que solo conoció la democracia en los años 80, uno pensaría que los españoles estarían más ansiosos por conservar su libertad después de Franco. Pero aquí estamos, haciéndole la pelota a Úrsula von der Franco.

Outrageous letter! Hope you get results. 💪🏼

Wait till you see the entire document.

Einfach nur peinlich und gleichzeitig beängstigend!

Viel Erfolg und Alles Gute!

Danke! Und unverschämt. Die aussage "wir fordern sie hiermit auf ihr Heitz verhalten künftig entsprechend zu prüfen und anzupassen" einer alten halb-blinden Frau an den Kopf zu werfen die kaum Strom verbraucht und nur 2 Zimmer zum heizten hat ist nicht angebracht.

"paid their dues"

If taxes are taken out of their paychecks, it's not really paying their dues. It's being stolen from their paychecks"

Germany is as bad as Canada. Both countries are socialist and governments like to steal from the citizens. Many old people here struggling here also with no help form the government other then a tiny bit of money .

Yes, we only wish our tax went to such noble things as roads and healthcare. Our tax only pays the interest on the loans to bankers across the ocean.

That would be nice.

Ah yes, socialism is when the capitalist class steals from the workers sure...

Its a two tier system for a long time now. My wife was unemployed for 2 years and told directly unemployed benefit isnt for Europeans

Despite paying unemployed insurance... Its all a scam.

What? That's ridiculous!

It's actually EU law (one of the few that make sense) that allows you to take your unemployment benefits to any EU country if you're eligible. When I left Germany for Spain I took my claim with me and received 6 months of unemployment pay in Spain. I believe the form is labelled U2 previously known as E303

Hello, how are you? It's a pleasure to meet you! May today be an incredible and successful day!

Sorry to hear that. It's a slow pillaging of everyone, but it's a lot of cause and effect too. We've got brain dead people with dumb ideologies running things.

When Germany decided to go all in on "green energy" and shut down their nuclear plants (and then get involved in a war), anyone paying attention knew it was going to go poorly. Energy abundance is the major key to a better life.

Thank you and yes on energy abundance. I wonder how they plan to power AI data centres while keeping energy affordable for the masses.

What a joke ... Try to pull them around in all directions, even if nothing comes of it at least you tried and you show them how ridiculous their own system is.

Good luck my friend. It's sort of the same with my mom. They get nothing for all the years they have worked. What's worse it's that once a power industrial stronghold Germany turned into a total waste! I'll leave it at that.

Makes me sad man.

This seems to be a very good account for getting updates on what's going on in Germany and Austria.

https://www.youtube.com/@SurvivalLilly

thanks. I try to avoid YT thoug since they now belive that it's alright for disabling extension in my browser with a page refresh.

server side page refresh that is

My 2 cents worth . - Identify the enemy. Understand their agenda. Find their vulnerabilities. Exploit - but not in the way they expect.

You've got balls.

Righting a wrong against a bureaucratic regime is no easy task. This is straight out theft, to service a political agenda.

And they exploit the most vulnerable - with double talk and picking them off one by one. They assume that seniors won't form a network of others suffering the same fate. This works in their favour.

The answer is to find out who else is in this boat. Collective numbers give strength, rather than individuals fighting for their rights.

Media won't be touching this issue.

So you need to find hackers/meme artists/cost effective publicity groups to come up with solutions.

The catch is - DO NOT BLAME THE IMMIGRANTS. That's exactly what the bureaucrats want you to do.

Ridicule works. Like-

Thank you Social welfare for docking my power bill. It is important to steal my savings to help you buy a car for my immigrant neighbors.

Bureaucrats do not like being ridiculed.

The macro outlook- (global stage)

Understand that they are endorsing Kissingers mantra -

Control the food = control the people.

Control the energy = control the country.

Control the money = control the world.

The micro outlook -(your mother's bubble)

A layer of division has been deliberately inserted - to create anxiety, fear and despair. The bureaucrats can now claim that the immigrants need servicing first.

Resulting in righteous anger at the unfair treatment.

Take into account the risk/reward ratio - in whatever action you take. But yes they are head fucking your mother deliberately .

I'm not blaming the migrants. I'm blaming the people governing. the migrant crisis is manmade to feed racism. (it's working)

Good man.

The bureaucrats are expecting the immigrants to be blamed . The immigrants are just as much victims as the seniors. They're the fodder that are deliberately used to cause division, to create chaos to allow the government to plunder and loot and scoop from their own citizens .

This is indeed not friendly to local residents. If all these fees were waived, I'd probably be able to buy a yacht, because I had already chosen this yacht on the yacht website long ago https://www.yachttrading.com/new-yachts-for-sale/yacht-type-flybridgeyacht/

Blaming other people for receiving better welfare isn't going to solve the issue.