Open Email to the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth re. Jobcenter Munich

Dear madam Family Minister Schwesig, 

The hallmark of your ministry has for some years now been the promotion of women in the business world and here it fits nicely that I am the father of a daughter of Asian-German descent. She was fortunate, thank goodness, not to have been born in Germany but in Asia and therefore, finding a nursery school for her was easy. We could even choose. 

Here in Germany my daughter trades under the not exactly auspicious label 'migrant', ie a term, as I have read in disbelief that, probably in a temporary state of mental derangement, is supposed to have been coined by the Federal Statistical Office. Well German history offers quite illustrious proof of inventive solutions for the classification and the selection of people. 

Due to her status as 'migrant' the assessment on the website of your ministry: 

"Teenagers and young adults from underprivileged families or young people with a migration background are by no means less talented than the average of their peers. However, for their social, educational and professional integration, they often need targeted support that is tailored to their individual life situation." 

finds my positive resonance, although the phrasing is a little unfortunate. I am also positively inclined to the efforts of your ministry: 

"With the initiative" STRENGTHEN the YOUTH ", the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, promotes the social, educational and professional integration of young people with special needs in the transition from school to work." 

In some agency however, which according to the Giessen Administrative Court tries to grace itself with a 'touch of authority' and is commonly known as trading under the somewhat euphemistic term 'Jobcenter', your laudable advances seem to be met with unrequited love. 

At aforementioned establishment a migration background is viewed with a certain doubt and suspicion which can only be dispelled by demanding - devoid of any legal basis - to see the intermediate school certificate. This dubious government agency for the provision of low-paying jobs does not in the least feel embarrassed to identify a migration background with a possible need for tutoring. This is all the more perplexing, when said institution had previously never shown any interest in the academic career of my daughter whatsoever and instead recently devised some impressive counter-measures. 

It seems that the Jobcenter misses no opportunity to venture into new mental lows. Some nosy person going by the name of Jean-Marc Vincent from the jobs department proffered his "help" to sign up my daughter to the third-rate jobs website of the Federal German Employment Agency in order to receive job offers. By way of this, the Jobcenter can snoop out her email address and mobile phone number in order to scour the social networks. It does not end here. By coaxing my daughter out of school and into a job this person can earn bonus points. The Jobcenter can just not accept that young people try to attain higher school education.

In this context, I believe the statement on the website of your ministry: 

"The target groups include, for example, young people with and without migration background who refuse to attend school or who are not reached by the school by the local actors and do the education, training, basic security and employment promotion." 

is rather addressed at the Jobcenter. It is pretty plain that this decrepit Agency for State-Guaranteed Poverty has but one single goal: coax young people out of school and into low-paying jobs 'By all Means'.

This assessment on the BMFSFJ site strikes me as un peu interpretable: 

"With the demographics of today's youth and future generations are growing importance and responsibility. Besides best promote and strengthen young people also need sufficient experience and design spaces and times to develop its own personality." 

Is it perhaps intended to be understood that it is conducive for the personal development of young people to feel their "growing importance" by proudly looking at already three law suits against said establishment in the first eleven months of reaching legal age?

Is it reinforcing personal "responsibility" in young people when they see their summer job pay stolen from said Center-of-Low-Wages?

Does one "develop ones own personality," by taking the Managing Director of this law-breaking institution as a role model when that manager touches the height of ridiculousness and seediness demanding the removal of a blog post or face a penalty of € 10,000? We treasure the right of free expression and will always fight for it.

Retrospectively my daughter and I can glance at "sufficient experience and Gestaltung spaces" this country has provided. So much, that my daughter will leave this low-wage country in the coming years. We also see not much value in her keeping German citizenship as the Comportement of Germany in its relationship to other countries in Europe is not shared by us. We are not inclined to approve wage deflation as a weapon against other Union countries and we find it deplorable to see hundreds of thousands of young people there in unemployment and lack of opportunities. It is not conducive to good karma.

We deeply appreciate your attention,

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PS: In a letter of the Munich public prosecutor I learned this week that, among other things, Job Center staff Jean-Marc Vincent (as I suspect) has brought an action for libel against me. He takes exception to be dubbed a "slimy employee" while engaging in activities outside the law.

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Needless to say, the blonde minister Manuela Schwesig, aka "Küsten-Barbie", never responded.

Manuela Schwesig, showing how to give satisfaction.