Now it really happened. After the financial crisis, economic crisis and now the crisis in public finances will begin to search for savings to the budget deficits of the federal government, states and municipalities to get a grip. The federal government saving in the next budget must be at least 10 billion euros. Not only is the debt brake makes this necessary. The hole in the municipal treasury is getting bigger and the end of the year reached 15 billion euros. This has not yet delivered in the history of the republic.
More and more politicians test their savings proposals in the media. Every day we hear, read or see, is to be saved where. Concrete consequences in the next few weeks saving lists. Germany is conditioned again saving. Where can the costs be reduced? What we can afford, and above all things that should not just be saved? Some cities such as for example food or Solingen encourage their citizens to participate and submit themselves saving proposals. Long is the fear goes around: Will the German Mini-growth of 0.2 percent in the first quarter of a turn for the better take? What happens if in the municipalities, the 10 billion-euro Economic stimulus package expires?
no question that saving is an urgent need . In fact, we live far beyond our means. All government services are therefore under scrutiny, cuts are necessary, there should be no taboos. But there is something very critical: Placing trust in the society in the economy, science and civil society to solve the problems successfully, enabling the citizens to give a perspective. Germany has this capacity for renewal. We must see the opportunities in the crisis and use it. "Those who sow mistrust, risking an inflationary spiral with destructive effects on economic growth and social peace, "Heike Göbel wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. And the Mirror headline this week: "From rubble and guilt - the incredible resurgence of the Germans after 1945". The same effort, if not even greater, being taken for the savings proposals need to be made for reform, renewal and innovation. the only way to create a growth-enabling environment. After all, only so that we can finally overcome the crisis.
We need a reform offensive e. Again, the run-guarantor and citizens, while the swarm intelligence of many in demand. If the oil company BP worldwide via Web 2.0 desperately searches for possible solutions to stop the disaster before the U.S. coast, this should also apply to Germany, look for the citizens too wide for unconventional solutions, such as the state can be made fit and fit for the future .
is urgently needed, a cross-sectoral innovation which strengthens the future key infrastructures such as broadband, energy and mobility. Unfortunately could here the economic stimulus package produce little effect. We need smart grid based on smart grids, energy production if we transport, and use in a com-plex want to bring together system. Charging stations for cars must be networked through information and communication technology. Smart Grid is a key component of Smart City, the city of tomorrow, which connects all the infrastructures of the schools, on health centers to roads, etc. with each other, thereby reducing the consumption of resources and radically strengthen sustainable growth.
must be accompanied the push for innovation with a massive reduction in bureaucracy. Often more than ten years of planning time for projects like power projects, we can no longer afford.
It is precisely the cities and municipalities that have innovation and the Reformmut have to try new things and head off the beaten paths. In the municipalities put immense potential that can be used. This begins with the provision of micro loans for entrepreneurs to (Dortmund), goes beyond the financial commitment of the citizens for municipal infrastructure (Langen and Quickborn) to the project "more space" of the Vienna University of Technology that in school buildings through a dynamic, event-oriented simulation room occupancy up to 40 percent more space can be obtained for the classroom and reducing the cost of new buildings are redundant.
give the new a chance, as this week, the DStGB Innovators Club does in Berlin, is the need of the hour.
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