"Dare yourself sometimes": Buschmann defends tank discount - Maischberger feels "like in the university"

Created: 06/17/2022Updated: 06/17/2022 09:01

Marco Buschmann as a guest at "Maischberger" © Screenshot: ARD / maischberger.

the week

Inflation, Corona, Ukraine war: Sandra Maischberger's ARD talk touched on all crises.

Still, it was enough for an internet meme that evening.

Cologne – The "crises just too many" sums up ARD capital correspondent Kerstin Palzer in the political talk at "Maischberger" in the first.

Publisher Wolfram Weimer is similarly resigned - like a "Maischberger" guest the day before, Weimer also denies Ukraine's chances of victory.

"We have now reached an uncomfortable point where we have to admit that Russia has won this war so far," he says, explaining that not only the land connection to Crimea, but also the "international struggle for majorities" has been "lost". .

China, India and South Africa have positioned themselves contrary to western expectations.

Weimer thinks it is wrong to strive for military solutions, he believes that a ceasefire can only be negotiated.

"Maischberger" (ARD) from June 15: Pensioner calls Gerhard Schröder "Armani Chancellor"

The round of talks with Sandra Maischberger has no good news to announce.

In conversation with the SPD party leader Saskia Esken sits the reticent pensioner and former seamstress and office worker Ursula Uhlmann, who after 25 years of work with an increase in her pension has 900 euros a month to live on - after deducting basic costs, she has 350 euros to spend.

The convinced SPD voter - who, however, is clearly disappointed by ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, whom she calls "Armani Chancellor" - is pessimistic: "It's only going to get worse," she says.

Esken does not disagree.

The capacities of the Tafel are also exhausted, and they can no longer take anyone in their place.

"Maischberger" - these guests discussed on June 15, 2022 with:

• Marco Buschmann (FDP)

  - Federal Minister of Justice

• Ursula Uhlmann

  - pensioner

• Saskia Esken (SPD)

  - party leader

As experts: 

• Mathias Richling

  - cabaret artist

• Wolfram Weimer -

  Publisher

  The European

• Kerstin Palzer -

  correspondent in the ARD capital studio

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Uhlmann feels let down by politics.

Pensioners are wanted by politicians "for catching votes," but after the elections "they no longer exist." Esken does not contradict this.

The additional one-off payment of 200 euros, which the pensioner is now entitled to as an extra as a result of the measures, is “of course a drop in the ocean, and we know that too,” said the SPD politician.

Saskia Esken listens with concern.

The circumstances for the loss of money, she clarifies, “come out of Corona”.

Energy prices had already risen by 4.5 percent in 2021.

Now this is also “making its mark” with food.

Weimer agrees, criticizes the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) and announces the next piece of bad news: "Inflation is the biggest problem that politics has".

Speaks of four trillion that the federal government "simply reprinted".

The currency devaluation is “the result of wrong monetary policy” and called for a reversal of the previous monetary policy from the ECB President, Christine Lagarde.

Palzer is not very convinced that backtracking will not help people “at the moment either”, she concedes and advocates the abolition or at least reduction of VAT brought into play by the CDU, especially for food.

Buschmann comes to the Internet meme by formally addressing "Ms. Maischberger".

Contrary to the problem-oriented Esken, Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann is more concerned with damage limitation and is trying to make the traffic light coalition look good.

He rejects criticism and begins almost every answer to Maischberger's critical questions with "Mrs. Maischberger...".

That seems stiff, especially when the presenter says with an irritated smile: "I feel like I'm at university" and Buschmann rebukes her: "No, Ms. Maischberger, I don't even know why you're laughing...".

This brings Buschmann a Twitter meme in the evening, but no sympathy points.

Christian Lindner also seemed similarly humorless the week before at the Maischberger talk.

When it comes to Corona, Buschmann speaks out against lockdown measures, but does not rule them out completely if a “dangerous situation” requires them and refers to the legal situation that allows this at any time.

Buschmann recalls the psychosocial illnesses that many people have suffered as a result of the measures.

And speaks of “dramatic consequences” for “elderly people in isolation” and above all for children and the educational deficits that have arisen, “which they may never catch up on”.

According to Buschmann, the measures must be carried out in a “reasonable balance”.

Bushman defends Tankrabat: "Dare to use other instruments"

On the subject of tank discounts, Buschmann refers to the results of the Ifo Institute, which "passed on 100 percent" the price help to customers for diesel and defended the controversial law in principle: "In exceptional situations like this, you have to dare to use other instruments." , said Buschmann succinctly.

And refers to a survey that showed that the tank discount is currently the "most popular measure" in the relief package.

With regard to the visit of Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Kyiv, cabaret artist Mathias Richling from the panel of experts found Scholz to be the "continuation of Merkel", even describing him as a "Trojan of the CDU".

However, Richling also believes in the power of "crisis and war", which also allows people to grow.

Publicist Weimer sees the loser of the traffic light in the FDP - above all due to the realignment by the new CDU party leader Friedrich Merz.

This "Merz effect" would again bind middle-class voters to the Christian Democrats, a "problem of the FDP".

Conclusion of the “Maischberger.

The week” talks from June 15, 2022:

A somewhat thin-skinned talc on several levels.

Lots of problems, no solutions.

The moderator had little hesitation, especially on the subject of tank discounts, where the critical arguments for introducing Buschmann could have been presented in concrete terms.

On the other hand, on the subject of Corona, Maischberger seemed too “snappy” and stiffened on the dissent between Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and Buschmann, which did not serve the cause.