poverty produces no headlines - on poverty and inhumane working to protect an unconditional basic income
At railway stations, main railway station in Bern, for example, can be seen vividly how good and bad about us in Switzerland. The wealth is in the headlines at the newsstand, "Gold Coast - live anywhere in Switzerland, more rich" or "Swiss super-rich to be rich again" or "Gstaad - In the Valley of the billionaires."
Poverty, however, is directly visible, but not as a subject of headlines. Outside the exit to the city are begging for a few contemporaries who will rise to the passers-by for a "small Stützli." The sales are modest. But what still makes headlines, is unemployment. Given a current title: "Switzerland has recovered from the crisis - unemployment has decreased by 14%."
But that's a wrong number, because the are because of chronic unemployment, the controlled not considered by the official statistics. If these unemployed for a little or no assets, so they fall sooner or later the public Social assistance prey. The social engineering of expression shows that the long-term unemployed, the social stigma of public assistance is attached. Now they are punished twice: not only does not work, but also contempt that they exercise their right to social support use. Here is there also a dark figure, which concerns a large and probably growing number of people: take no more their right to social assistance and public support true. Not only we know nothing about the reasons for that refusal - even if it is obvious that they have to do with the shame of the corridor to the welfare office - but sheared policy is not this a "category" of people. The main thing, they do not burden the social welfare budget unnecessarily.
"poverty in the rich, Switzerland is a taboo" and "Every tenth person is considered poor." This figure represents headlines that are not found at the train station kiosk. You can read on the website of Caritas. The decisive evidence that it is not just unemployment, which produces poverty, but that the false construct is the conditional nature of the work as the material basis of existence, provide the title on the website of the Swiss Labor Assistance. It represents the quality of the work to the fore: "Over one billion people worldwide are exploited" and "It no lack of work but decent work. "
Decent work is if they are not done solely for their own and the livelihood of the family must, but if it is appropriate for their own interests, abilities and inclinations. The prerequisite for this would be a minimal economic independence of each individual.
One idea is haunting Europe. The unconditional basic income. Switzerland has a similar institution for a long time. The basic income for all is in the form of AVS with the referendum of 6 been in July 1947 for a growing proportion of the population realizes. On one condition however: you must have enough Insurance years have to a month to receive an amount of up to 2320 francs at leisure. On the 50th Birthday of the former Federal AHV said Hans Peter Tschudi, the radio of a contract between generations, of a solidarity work between young and old. Not by chance it was built in the late forties, as had also to suffer in our country, older people under the economic consequences of war. In Switzerland today are facing ever more billionaires, more and more destitute. Since it takes a solidarity work between rich and poor: the unconditional basic income.
That would have the headline at the station kiosk in the future.
Oswald Sigg, 1944, is a political scientist and journalist, until spring 2009, he was spokesman for the Swiss Federal Council. On 19 March, he speaks at the podium of the basic income Congress' in Zurich.
At railway stations, main railway station in Bern, for example, can be seen vividly how good and bad about us in Switzerland. The wealth is in the headlines at the newsstand, "Gold Coast - live anywhere in Switzerland, more rich" or "Swiss super-rich to be rich again" or "Gstaad - In the Valley of the billionaires."
Poverty, however, is directly visible, but not as a subject of headlines. Outside the exit to the city are begging for a few contemporaries who will rise to the passers-by for a "small Stützli." The sales are modest. But what still makes headlines, is unemployment. Given a current title: "Switzerland has recovered from the crisis - unemployment has decreased by 14%."
But that's a wrong number, because the are because of chronic unemployment, the controlled not considered by the official statistics. If these unemployed for a little or no assets, so they fall sooner or later the public Social assistance prey. The social engineering of expression shows that the long-term unemployed, the social stigma of public assistance is attached. Now they are punished twice: not only does not work, but also contempt that they exercise their right to social support use. Here is there also a dark figure, which concerns a large and probably growing number of people: take no more their right to social assistance and public support true. Not only we know nothing about the reasons for that refusal - even if it is obvious that they have to do with the shame of the corridor to the welfare office - but sheared policy is not this a "category" of people. The main thing, they do not burden the social welfare budget unnecessarily.
"poverty in the rich, Switzerland is a taboo" and "Every tenth person is considered poor." This figure represents headlines that are not found at the train station kiosk. You can read on the website of Caritas. The decisive evidence that it is not just unemployment, which produces poverty, but that the false construct is the conditional nature of the work as the material basis of existence, provide the title on the website of the Swiss Labor Assistance. It represents the quality of the work to the fore: "Over one billion people worldwide are exploited" and "It no lack of work but decent work. "
Decent work is if they are not done solely for their own and the livelihood of the family must, but if it is appropriate for their own interests, abilities and inclinations. The prerequisite for this would be a minimal economic independence of each individual.
One idea is haunting Europe. The unconditional basic income. Switzerland has a similar institution for a long time. The basic income for all is in the form of AVS with the referendum of 6 been in July 1947 for a growing proportion of the population realizes. On one condition however: you must have enough Insurance years have to a month to receive an amount of up to 2320 francs at leisure. On the 50th Birthday of the former Federal AHV said Hans Peter Tschudi, the radio of a contract between generations, of a solidarity work between young and old. Not by chance it was built in the late forties, as had also to suffer in our country, older people under the economic consequences of war. In Switzerland today are facing ever more billionaires, more and more destitute. Since it takes a solidarity work between rich and poor: the unconditional basic income.
That would have the headline at the station kiosk in the future.
Oswald Sigg, 1944, is a political scientist and journalist, until spring 2009, he was spokesman for the Swiss Federal Council. On 19 March, he speaks at the podium of the basic income Congress' in Zurich.
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