Richard Wagner is against aiding the economy

Richard Wagner gives vent to his rage and frustration in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung at the demands by politicians that citizens should stimulate recovery in the financial crisis. "Recession, recovery, whatever. I don't want to help the economy, I want to be a cranky consumer. And frankly at the moment I couldn't care less about saving the planet, regardless of whether or not the world community has lined up behind UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to breathe life into the green revolution as winners of the crisis. I mean it's clear to anyone who thinks about it that bankrupt businesses don't pollute. So don't count on me saving the world, because to tell you the truth I've had it up to here with the trickery and lies, and I am going to tend to nothing more pressing than my little garden, because there's lots in it to discover that I can better explain to my children than faith in the market or belief in politics. People in past centuries did not care about their 'standard of living' wrote [German postwar journalist Sebastian] Haffner, they only cared about their salvation. That doesn't sound like such a bad start to me."

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