Germany has one of the largest low-wage sectors in Europe.

Following is a snippet from the post 'MAKE GERMAN POLITICS INTERESTING AGAIN' by Christian Odendahl, Sophia Besch. It deals mainly with the, oh so boring, election campaigns of Merkel and Slow Train Schulz. None of my interest, although this will be the first time in decades that I am going to vote. Pure and untainted protest vote.

This here is interesting and it essentially explains why the SPD (it has nothing to do with Schulz) will never win the 2017 election nor the next. The SPD is THE embodiment of the Hartz 4 concept.

• Germany has one of the largest low-wage sectors in Europe. A whopping 23 per cent work for wages of less than €10.50 an hour (in Sweden, barely 3 per cent do). Instead of a liberalising 'Agenda 2010' along the lines of the Schröder reforms, the SPD should put together a bold new 'Agenda 23 per cent' that aims to halve the number of people on low wages. 

In addition, the poverty rate keeps rising.

German Labor Min. Nahles tells ECB Draghi to close "His eye on pay packets". Zero euro per hour is the ticket.

Fat Labor Min. Nahles in blue

Ze Germans are ramping it up against Super Mario and hardly anyone is more (dis)qualified for that economics job than that fat German Labor Min. & literate manqué Andrea Nahles (career goal: "Either housewife or chancellor").

Add to this female economics powerhouse a certain D. Scheele, new head of the German Labor Agency, who looks like a rumpled wedding crooner

D. Scheele,
looks like a rumpled wedding crooner,
head of German Labor Agency

and you get a combo of low-wage/slave labor protagonists who even see an hourly pay of € 1 as excessive.

Let's first listen to Dr. Aghi from the ECB who at least talks some sense when he laments the low wage growth as the main stumbling block towards getting the EU out of the slump.

Draghi Is Right to Hold Out for Wage Growth
Europe's recovery hasn't yet translated into higher pay for workers.

and

ECB Draghi: Tells EU leaders wages to blame for low inflation.

The German Labor Ministry wants nothing of this. Sure, employment is high but what kind of employment is that in most cases? Low-paying jobs and temp jobs are the rule. Poverty rate close to 16%.

Wages have grown in Germany but inflation has eaten that away.

Now they want to even start a pilot project in Bremerhaven.

A pilot project to combat long-term unemployment will start in Bremerhaven in early 2018. Instead of simply sitting around at home, Hartz-IV recipients are to help out in companies or to maintain public green spaces without pay. The goal is to integrate them into society through work.

The following reasoning is the real kicker:

Above all parents are to benefit from this by showing their children that they also contribute their part to society. This would have the preventative effect that long-term unemployment is not inherited.

IOW, kids can learn in early age that contribution to society, which is what a job entails, need not be paid. They will inherit the caste of their parents. Once Hartz 4, always Hartz 4 which keeps the export engine humming.

Critique came swift:

"Almost like forced labor"

Claudia Bernhard, labor market policy spokesperson for the left in Bremen, responded to the agency 's proposal in an initial assessment. "The only thing that combats long-term unemployment is jobs," she said. Tobias Helfst from the Bremen Unemployment Association became even clearer. "There is an actual factual device showing its true political face," he says. For him, the project sounds like a humanitarian project. "To employ people as a work force anywhere without paying them decently," he says.

How Germany secures a supply of cheap labor. By courts denying better school education: Students may not improve at Hartz IV

a Kamaiya

Nobody in the Western hemisphere beats Germany when it comes to discrimination, Western casteism and law-enforced guarantees of inequality. Of its own people, that is (1). Or, if you prefer to have that put into pixel form in not particularly sophisticated lay terms: one time a Hartz IV shitface, forever a Hartz IV shitface. The German government and courts see to that.

Hartz IV is one way Germany secures its dominant position in its quest to stay the world leader in exports (2). That is best achieved by securing a dependable supply of low-qualified human resources which, to no surprise, starts early in school. Germany has a helping hand in this endeavor, its courts. Here is an example:

The mother of a student at a 'Gesamtschule' (as opposed to Germany's three tired schools of Hauptschule, Realschule and Gymnasium - did I mention segregation at the beginning?) wanted to have the English language skills of her son improved and asked for private lessons to be paid for by an existing government program for exactly such purposes. That was declined.

The verdict of the second highest Social Affairs court of the state of Hesse ruled, and now brace yourself, that:

 "Extracurricular learning support is only given to secure a decent subsistence level". 

Subsistence level!!! Kamaiya anyone?

The student had "no right to a grant for additional learning support, since this is not necessary in order to achieve the essential learning objectives, passing to the next grade". Essential learning objective is "the promotion to the next grade or a sufficient level of performance". The stabilization of a satisfactory level of performance, and the simple improvement of grade levels are not recognized as an essential objective. 

Who would deem good English necessary in a country where the Pidgin English of new Volkswagen CEO Müller raised eyebrows just a week ago?

Here comes the kicker and that has been observed and reported by various organizations, among others the United Nations special representative. Let's again listen to this wise German court:

The same is true for the intention of the legislature for improvements to achieve better school recommendation, which also regularly does not constitute a reason for learning support.

Better school recommendation means that a student can then join the Gymnasium and gain the baccalaureate. Germany has no interest in this, only for the already selected few.

And now ask yourself, how will this country seriously integrate those refugees? It won't. It has no fucking interest. All it wants is cheap labor.

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(1) foreigners with non-western facial looks get the special treat in Germany, guaranteed and court-approved.
(2) that has, among other benefits, lead to German pensioners enjoy a considerably lower pension than their neighbors to the South, the Austrians.

Refugees, well trained, motivated, young looking … to be butcher, baker or painter in Germany

Bob: I don't want to leave. 

Charlotte: So don't. Stay here with me. We'll start a jazz band.

Lost in Translation

God, what a difference just four months make. The SZ screams:

October 15, 2015, 10:05 clock

Labor market and refugeesWell trained, motivated, young looking ...

and one thing is clear, IT'S PARTY TIME! The refugees are here, yeehah!

Let's listen in:

As Obaidah AlSaleh came to Munich two years ago, the Syrian did not know anyone in the city and did not speak German. After half a year integration course he began to work as a warehouse worker and packers in a company for beauty products. After a few months he was in the company take orders and went up to deputy foreman.The 32-year-old has an apartment in Munich found and speaks fluent German.

Well, what did I tell you, a total success ... until you read the next sentence:

In Syria AlSaleh had studied agronomy. His aim was a training or study in the technical field.

Oops, what happened, Germany. I thought it's FACHKRÄFTE you are so desperately looking for? Germany, what did you not understand? He studied agronomy! Are you trying to tell me plants in Syria grow from left to right and agriculture there is totally different from European?

That at present many politicians and media figures spread, how high the rate of illiterate or less extensive among the refugees are holding Social Officer Meier for a doomsday scenario. She speaks instead of a "huge opportunity" for the city of Munich. It was particularly remarkable how many were just the young refugees often highly motivated.

Anette Farrenkopf, Jobcenter München - Foto: Felix Magin

Sounds awesome this "huge opportunity" and this would be the right time to call in the Madonna of Low-wage Jobs. Let's give a big hand to Anette Farrenkopf, all-new man. director Jobcenter Munich. Well hello, ma sweet blonde babe.

What did Anette think of all those foreigners and refugees flocking to bucolic Bavaria just four months ago in June and BTW without ever having talked to or met one?

Well, Ms. Anette chose a very intellectual newspaper, the AZ, to spread her wisdom and that goes like this:

However Farrenkopf understands the refugee influx by no means purely as a burden on her agency. On the contrary: "These are very studious people," she says, especially artisanal interested.

Cool, can we have more? Studious sounds great. Artisanal, oh, get's me all revved up. So I am getting really curious here, Anette.

Many would want to be butcher, baker or painter. 

Oh gee, Ms. Farrenkopf, that is a bummer. You sure? How the heck did that happen? Just a minute ago you were all gaga and elated about their studious traits and their artisanal expertise, and now this. Any explanation mayhaps from ze lady?

These are the professions for which our young people are interested in no longer," says the job center boss.

No shit? Is that so? Please bear with me, sweet buxom lady of low-line jobs, as I am experiencing some bumps on the road following the whole mantra of the labor minister, the BA dudes and many other people in the business of pretending to know stuff, but it still keeps resonating in my ear that Germany is in dire needs of FACHKRÄFTE. So here you have young people, eager and interested, and you want to funnel them into shit jobs that, and for a reason, no young German people want to do?

There is even more to it, sweet lady, you sound fucking racist and in doing so, you blew the cover of what that job of yours, the German Labor Agency BA and the refugee laws is: syphoning off enough refugees to fill low-wage jobs and kick the rest out of the country. On trains I hear.

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Quotes via Google translate

What does this header photo collage on Twitter of the German Ministry of Labor tell you?

What does this header photo collage on Twitter of the German Ministry of Labor tell you about this miraculous job wonder?

Everything jobs in Germany are about: low wage.

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.

Open email to the German Ministry of Education re. Jobcenter Munich

Dear Minister of Education Wanka, 

Recent events with an institution entrusted to guarantee low-wage jobs induce me to write to you in an open email. Allow me to quote from the home page of your ministry's website:

"The educational advancement of young people must not fail due to financial barriers." 

and on this page: 

"Education is the most important investment in the future. This is true for each individual and for society as a whole. Each child and every young person should receive the best possible educational opportunities in Germany, irrespective of their cultural or social origin or physical possibilities of his parents' house." 

Unfortunately this seems to have not yet transpired to the institution, which according to the Giessen Administrative Court strives to attain a 'touch of authority', and in this particular case the Jobcenter of Munich in the province of Bavaria. 

It is said Jobcenter, where I and my daughter, who has just completed her first eleven months of coming of legal age - meaning the age of majority according to the BGB and not the justice system SGB this questionable agency Jobcenter works on - and insofar as she is of Asian-German provenance, therefore consequently in those rather wooden German semantics runs under the term 'migrant' (is this perhaps a Baudrillardian simulacrum?) - feel compelled to notice, that "the most important investment in the future" is quite ostensibly viewed by this agency as rather a cost that must be avoided 'By all Means' including circumventing the law and arbitrary application of the law. 

Your Ministry of Education's website assesses correctly: 

"In Germany almost four million children are under the age of 18, more than a quarter of this age group in at least one social, financial and cultural risk situation, which detracts from their educational opportunities." 

yet said institution for State Guaranteed Poverty Management, aka Jobcenter, shows a startlingly inventive repertoire of counter-measures in such a consistent way of more or less persistent breaches of law with the impressive result that my daughter can already proudly look at three legal actions before the Social Court in Munich against this government institution.

It is shrouded in opaqueness for me as a parent what "positive means for their education" 
adolescents could distill out of these deeply questionable dealings of a government institution. A state should not be surprised by an emotional disassociation of young people and ultimately a decision to emigrate to better shores.

Would it not be wiser and certainly more honest, especially since the dealings of said agency are well-known since years, to even more circumvent the German basic law in Germany's quest for cheap labor and pass additional legislation perhaps stating along these lines:

"Children, who belong to the community of Hartz IV recipients, have the right to education up to secondary school. An education beyond this level would strain public finances and also overtax these children." 

This had the additional benefit for the Jobcenter Munich to legally continue breaking laws unabated, arbitrary application of laws, the refusal to cover the costs for the school bus and, last but not least for this seedy agency, stealing the pay of my daughter's vacation job.

It would also alleviate the managing director of the Jobcenter Munich, whose full name according to the Attorney General of Munich is Martina Monika Musati, of the plight to force me to take down a blog post or face a penally of € 10,000 (euro ten thousand in words) some two years ago. An endeavor that left me in a bout of raucous laughter.

Furthermore, it would render it unnecessary that a dude from that agency writes a slimy letter to my daughter demanding to see her school midterm card without any legal basis, connive to get her email address and mobile phone number and ultimately trying to coax her out of school and into a low-paying job. For good measure he manages to add a decent amount of discriminating prejudice by suggesting she might need some tuition.

I fully agree with the BMBF when it states: 

"Good education - from kindergarten to school, training and study through to education - is the key to participation and social advancement." 

Sadly this assessment is not being shared at the Jobcenter Munich. In their eminent offices everything is done to curtail a comprehensive education in order to meet their pre-established numbers and earn a bonus.

Of course this is understandable, when an institution can present such an elitist intellectual talent as its CEO Martina Musati, a lady of mind boggling eloquence and a commanding grasp of the German language, who manages on a sparsely printed DIN A5 page to repeat the word 'integration' ten times and subsequently sparked a learned discussion about redundancy in the republic that helped to bring about a paradigm shift. Wittgenstein can now sit back and relax. 

I feel much obliged for your attention and remain 

Sincerely

The Jobcenter Munich is involved in law-breaking measures, such as sniffing out email addresses of adolescents

The Jobcenter Munich is eager in getting its hands on email addresses of adolescents and connivingly steering them into dropping out of school and getting a low-paid job. 

Jobcenter Munich team member Jean-Marc Vincent made the following offer to my daughter (she attends school full-time!) in a pretty sycophantic email and letter: 

If you seek a professional training and not are yet registered in career counseling (at the Employment Agency Munich), I will make sure a registration for you. To arrange this, contact me. The registration is very important for sending the open apprenticeships.

It seems the Jobcenter is engaged in sniffing out email addresses of adolescents under the guise of offering unrequested assistance. This even in connection with the dubious Federal Employment Agency. 

Using the email address fucked-up company Jobcenter can then snoop around on Facebook for example and other social networks: 

The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection warns: 

Job centers can use social networks to collect data of their clients. (german language)

The Jobcenter Munich is so screwed up that it takes full advantage of adolescents in their often not comprehensive legal knowledge shamelessly and in a racist and discriminatory manner. A clear case for the Data Protection Commissioner. 

Even more interesting is how blatantly the Jobcenter ignores the Privacy Policy, because my daughter is a full-time student and has no business with the Federal Employment Agency as she is not looking for a job. 

In this context, the following article fits perfectly: 

Allegedly stolen e-mail addresses for sale (german language)

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