German Taxpayers Fund Controversial Political Youth Groups With Millions
The revelations by Junge Freiheit about the pornography scandal at a school in Saxony continue to stir controversy. As previously reported, both "non-binary" instructors—who shocked ninth-grade students with pornographic material during an unsupervised project week—turned out to be members of a far-left organization: the Socialist Youth of Germany – The Falcons (Sozialistische Jugend Deutschlands – Die Falken). It has since emerged that their deployment was funded with €2,500 from the Amadeu Antonio Foundation, an organization itself generously bankrolled by the federal government to the tune of over six million euros in taxpayer money each year.
Now, further scrutiny of the Falcons—prompted by the Schleife case—has revealed just how flush with cash the group really is. As an affiliate organization of the SPD, it has come under increasing public attention, particularly following inquiries by AfD lawmakers in the Bundestag. Since 2016, this far-left traditionalist association has received nearly €13 million from the federal government (Junge Freiheit reported). Every year alone, through the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs' Children and Youth Plan, the Falcons pocket one million euros. One million euros.
From Youth Funding to Subsidies for Far-Left NGOs
For years, the federal program "Living Democracy!" (Demokratie leben!), also under the Family Ministry's purview, has been funneling nearly €200 million annually in taxpayer funds to sustain a sprawling left-green-red subculture.
The Children and Youth Plan—originally established in 1950 as a modest initiative to support youth and educational work—has since ballooned into a €250 million behemoth, one of many ever-expanding slush funds and grant programs propping up a tentacular network of left-leaning cultural, media, and political operations.
The "Democracy Promotion" Gravy Train Needs the Axe
With shameless entitlement, these political structures—branding themselves as "Our Democracy!" and "Civil Society!"—are having their propaganda bankrolled by working citizens, despite an apparent inability to secure private funding. Meanwhile, the AfD's party foundation has been denied its rightful share of state financing for five years running. Over €600 million in public funds are divvied up among the foundations of the established parties, sustaining a vast bureaucratic apparatus.
A genuine political shift must bring this asymmetrical subsidy machine under the budgetary axe—along with large swaths of public broadcasting.
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