While you discuss slavery from 200 years ago the german government is enslaving unemployed citizens

When I talk to people from the USA, they usually seem to think that Germany is some kind of paradise. We have health care, social welfare, such a blooming economy and officially a permanently increasing unemployment rate. But what you don't know is how the number of 2.6 Mio unemployed at present gets fabricated and how the German government opresses their citizens with so called 1-Euro-Jobs and job provisioning measures.

ageny for employment, picture by user succa//pixabay

In April 2016, 635,000 occupations were announced by the Bundesagentur für Arbeit – national agency for employment. compared to oficially 2.9 Mio unemployed people. Almost five times more people looking for a job than jobs. Factually there were even much more unemployed citizens who got calculated out of the picture. Different foundations estimate a more realistic figure of around 7 Mio people. How could those 4 Mio people got lost in the statistics?
You won't believe the german way of labor policy!

People who were sick in the week of the ascertainment weren't count. Justification: They couldn't work in this week anyway, so basically you couldn't call them "searching for a job". Not in this week. Then there were those who had some kind of occupation for minimum one hour per week, like someone who babysitts, takes care of his own mother, is "self employed" and does whatever … Those weren't count, too. And this group is very big by chance because most of the people try to say, they would be doing anything because every unemployed tries to avoid the next two groups of people.

"1-Euro-Jobs" and "job provisioning measures"

First rules first: If you depend on social welfare, there is no way declining a measure or a 1-Euro-Job. You can do it but for this case the national agency of employment invented sanctions. You refuse one job, they cut off 10 percent of your money, refuse a second job they take 30 percent, next time 60, last time: everything. So you've better got anything to do (and don't appear in the statistics). In April 2017 alone 85,418 sanctions got impose.

For example, in 2016 those measures were:
workshops on how to write emails, crafting parlor games with conkers and pipe cleaners, learning how to use a computer, self-convidence trainings about fashion and make-up (which noone in the system can afford) and so on. The creativity of those who invent the measures for their highly state-subsidized projects is far beyond your wildest imagination. German taxes are used to support all those crazy projects, just so that the statistics you see look so stunningly positive.

1-Euro-Jobs are even worse. Because the possibility for corporations to create those jobs is responsible for fewer jobs. Every employer gets himself as many 1-Euro-workers as possible and needs less regular workers. The one-euro-worker is not allowed to work more than 30 hours per week, because the official name for what the Germans call 1-Euro-Job is working consideration with representation allowance. Why is that? Because we have labor laws that doesn't allow jobs to be paid less than 450 Euro each month. But if you don't call it a job, you can force people to do dishonorable "work" like that for a loan between 60 and 120 Euro per month.

Academics learn how to write an email

After explaining, that we have five times more people looking for real work than we can offer working places, it shouldn't be necessary to say that having no job in Germany doesn't depend on being lazy or in anyway not good enough. But to make it even clearer:

A press information from the Instution for Employment Market and Researching Proffessions 2016 said that those with the lowest chances for an unlimited employment contract would be employers in scientific facilities.

It can strike anyone but mostly affected are those who have the best education. In order that you, from all over the world, look at our German statistics and think Germany must be THE place to be. Everyone is happy-go-lucky provided and noone has to suffer. The truth is: Germans are forced to work under unworthy conditions, families get pulled apart, children taken away, because their parents "can't afford to aid them", people suffer from hunger and even die. This is what is really happening in Germany at this moment while Americans are being forced into a big division by their government and media.

Fight the power

As a so called white priviliged author from Germany who can't afford her own life, I beg you to don't let yourself be thrown into this fight that shouldn't be yours. There was slavery in the USA 200 years ago. And some of the consequences are still perceptible. For example: Yes, constitutional racism is real. But it seems everyone is on the plan, trying to do something about it. Don't let the media tell you that white supremacy is a real threat. It's just a handful of extremists and most people aren't extremists. The real threat is happening, while we get played by the rules of devide and conquer by some elitist terrorists.

We are all oppressed. Every country in another way. But we've got a real enemy. Let's face it and start fighting all those big players. Please stop fighting the people!

Greetings from Germany,

May B.
white & poor, but positive