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I'm sorry, I have no idea who wants to comment on Mrs. Merkel. I personally do not talk about the chancellor, or very little. To be able to judge the government of a party, it is perhaps best to look at statistics. I recently looked at a statistical document of over a hundred pages, about all kinds of areas: Population, health, economy, education etc. etc. You can't say of any government that it is particularly close to the people.

The only people who are close to the people are those in office who have direct contact with those locally who can approach a party member in the immediate vicinity.

I have only heard the Chancellor's latest statements about the measures taken to deal with the virus; these were only a few sentences and they were quite clear. She said: "The pandemic is not over until a vaccine is developed".

The refugees from Syria who were taken in by us, they would certainly be grateful to any government. However, there is no need to pretend here. If one reads statistics, it is clear that without the many foreigners we Germans could probably not keep our economy running and since I have worked on a government program for the integration of women into the labor market, the course here is very clear: We need these workers, women and men alike, very urgently.

Measures and concepts have been designed for this purpose and also co-financed by the EU. As a rule, Syrian women are often called upon to care for the elderly or raise children, or for voluntary work such as translating etc. -those with the better education. Those who have hardly any school education go to cleaning. Their men work in the factories, which seem to shoot up like mushrooms (production of medical equipment) or other menial jobs.

Mrs. Merkel is a trained physicist and the daughter of a pastor. Perhaps that is what gives her a good reputation. Of course, everything that is said or published about the federal government is supported by the public relations consultants and assistants and I suppose this apparatus is huge.

It is a fact that we have many refugees and that people in the social and other sectors are not only disadvantaged by the refugees (which I personally don't see anyway), but many profitable companies have formed around the topic, the container camps and other real estate businesses alone are earning a lot of money right now, because the rents are financed by the public. If one takes the other branches into account, then the employees from the different economic and social areas also earn not badly from the fact that we have taken in refugees.

In principle, there is probably a balance sheet that one does not like to see: That wars, expulsions, the sick, the poor, etc. have always been good for setting up programs, creating jobs and letting the local population earn a share of the income in this way, that such things exist.

At a higher level, all governments are blind to the fact that destructive forces are a profitable source of money-making. But it is not only the rulers who have dark spots, the people have dark spots as well.

Municipalities and regional politics have not been alive for a long time. A mayor who no longer goes to the pub or the beer garden or the folk festival around the corner and regularly makes up his own mind and answers questions there, basically has no idea of the mood of the people around him. It's one thing to decide something as a local mayor, for example, and then get a scolding or praise from the neighborhood directly, and quite another to distance yourself from it.

Today we see everything only through the media filter. This is a form of loss of reality, under which I, too, must carefully express myself. I can only always confirm what I perceive personally and professionally and what I actually experience.