You’re a Yellow Vest…
You’re a Yellow Vest if you know you’ll be broke at the end of the month.
If you earn €1,500 a month and are told you’re only eligible for the employment bonus, which you have to be single and broke to get.
If you’re not eligible for housing assistance because your salary is €30 too high.
If your shopping lists become crucial to your bank balance.
You’re a Yellow Vest if you have a smartphone you have to pay off in four installments.
But you’re also a Yellow Vest if four or ten installments are your only way to afford a little luxury.
If you can no longer afford croissants when you have guests on Sundays.
You’re a Yellow Vest if you know the taste of Barilla pasta inside and out. If you’ve already tried every imaginable tomato sauce to vary the flavor of your pasta.
You’re also a Yellow Vest if you try to put aside €100, but only for one month, because you’ll need it to pay bills next month.
You’re a Yellow Vest if you want to buy clothes for your kids, but have to settle for a special offer and end up overdrawing your account anyway.
You’re also a Yellow Vest if you see the bills piling up every month while your hobbies gradually disappear.
Ah, no movie, because the electricity bill has arrived.
Ah… no eating out for the kids and us, because property tax is due.
You’re also a Yellow Vest if you know you have to calculate like an accountant when you treat your buddies at the pub to avoid being broke at the end of the month.
And you’re also a Yellow Vest if you know you haven’t been on vacation in three years and can only visit relatives nearby, just to get out of the house.
We are not a movement of blockheads, welfare recipients, or country bumpkins, no, ladies and gentlemen.
We are the heartbeat of Germany, a Germany with an irregular heartbeat that will end in a heart attack.
And why?
Because it’s suffering, and because the people who have the necessary medication are withholding it from us!
Okay, so you don’t want to demonstrate with us.
Okay, complain if you’re 15 minutes late for work because of our blockade. But ask yourself, sitting on your soft couch, when will Germany take its last breath?
What will you do if Germany doesn’t finally get an electric shock?
Let’s stop our complaining and our outrage!
Let’s count the new heartbeats of Germany instead. All together, all different, but all united and above all:
determined!
