Posted on 07/03/2017 4:51:14 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The latest idea from the Socialist Party in Germany: Compel the long-term unemployed to work for zero pay, in order to prevent their children from growing up to be unemployed themselves.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this piece from Compact online:
SPD planning shock therapy for children of unemployed parents
Unfortunately, this is not satire: By way of humiliation of recipients of Hartz-IV [the final stage of a series of government reforms in German unemployment and welfare benefits], their children will be injected with a maximum fear of unemployment. A slave project from the house of the SPD, the idea is that the “ineptitude” of their parents must not be “inherited” by their children!
Last year the minister of employment Andrea Nahles (SPD), tried to top her ridiculous idea of the one-euro job by offering 80-cent jobs to refugees. And now for the coming year, this cynicism will be surpassed with a brand new ridiculous idea: With the cooperation of the Department of Labor (BA) in Bremerhaven, Nahles wants to start a pilot project in 2018: 3,000 long-term unemployed people will have to work for the common and the corporate good! Hourly pay: Zero cents!
Germany is just reaping what they sowed.
What about “workfare” instead of welfare?
I know the concept of workfare, or having able bodied people work in exchange for public assistance has been talked about for decades. Isnt this just another form of the concept of requiring people getting the public dole to do something rather than sit around all day?
Socialist demanding that the unemployed shall work for a living. I thought that was the exact opposite of what the socialist wanted.
“3,000 long-term unemployed people will have to work for the common and the corporate good! Hourly pay: Zero cents!”
And our Beloved (by most!) Governor, Scott Walker (R, WI) is taking flack for wanting to drug test able-bodied, CHILDLESS people on Food Stamps and Assistance, in order for them to keep those ‘benefits’ at Taxpayer Expense! Jobs are going unfilled in our state! Our unemployment rate is 3.1%!
People should be working for a living, not letting the rest of us support them; and we really have little problem with illegals in our state outside of Madistan and Milwaukeestan.
Good Luck, Lady - you’re going to need it. Your country is truly beyond repair. :(
I think it was Maine that recently imposed a requirement for food stamp recipients to work on state projects to continur=e getting food stamps. The food stamp recipient numbers dropped by a huge amount that I think was a 75% drop.
Well there you have it
persons who are able to work should not be just given taxpayer money or benefits. they should (at least after a reasonable time to enable them to seek private sector employment).....they should be offered pay and benefits for doing some useful work. This work can be any decent tasks that the individual is reasonably capable of performing.
anything from cleaning up parks and roads and beaches to helping maintain public facilities to assisting with office work to whatever needs doing. Just raking up leaves if that’s all that is needed in their community, okay on that. Whatever productive tasks they can reasonably do. It can be part-time if that’s all that’s needed or that’s all they can do, and I am not trying to enslave anybody, that should not be allowed period. ...... The point being, people who are capable of doing something useful for others... should not be forced into the indignity of just taking and taking for nothing (nor should they be permitted to operate that way).
It is demeaning and dysfunctional for them and for society.
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What happened to the $15 per hour minimum wage?
I’ll bet they still get their welfare goodies, in which case, strictly speaking, they aren’t working for “free”. I think all welfare should be “workfare”. No more free s*** for layabouts.
If not, what are they going to do when the “slaves” refuse to work? Beat them with bullwhips?
I wish that were still true. In urban areas meat processing and slaughter waste conversion centers were a big problem that seems to have been cleaned up some. Almost all the back staff in restaurants in town. Out here its CAFOs. Anywhere CAFOs are there is an illegal community. Villages pop400 with enough to suppport a Mexican grocer but not one for thr rest of us. Small towns of 3000 with so many spanish speaking kids that the public school is too paralysed to teach anyone properly (that might not actually be a bad thing as its less for me to deprogram when they get home). Its really getting out of hand out here too.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
After two trips to Germany I concluded its an effed up place. This reinforces my observation.
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