引用执政的社会民主党主席弗兰茨·明特费林在前不久一次演讲中所打的一个不幸的比喻：成群结队的资本主义“蝗虫”马上会扑到毫无防备的劳苦大众身上。
Swarms of capitalist “locusts” threaten to descend on defenseless, hardworking people, to quote the unfortunate metaphor used in a recent speech by Franz Müntefering, the chairman of the governing Social Democrats.