A discussion On Food stamps:

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Aramike

Perhaps for items like clothing and school supplies, there should be an audit system requiring welfare users to justify and account for every bit of currency spent?

Sounds like even more bureaucracy. Stamps seem to be simplier to me.

Or a distribution of needed pencils and paper and books to children directly at school, after showing a pass.

Every little detail in every single case is probably impossible to be dealt with anyway, and we therefore should not seek for it - the bureaucratic price could get too high. What it is about is to get the bigger picture, the greater scheme right, and to link the value of aid given to the purposes it is meant for. The systems we have in place now, are too unbalanced, and too open for intentional abuse as well as erratic functioning by flawed design.

Children should qualify for education not due to the social class and income of their parents, but by their abilities and skills. Those having potential should be able to make it through a good education, so that they do not needlessly get turned into the next generation of social wellfare receivers. However, today poltiicians seem to think that achievement in learning and education is something that can be given, can be distributed, and must not be earned. That is a big mispercpetion, imo. It should not be about giving everybody the same educaiton grade and level - this only leads to the general skill levels of all kids declining, and the potzentially better kids with better potewntials getting mistreated by calling them back to mediocre performance levels and hindering them to achieve more and to do better. Damn socialist ideology it is here in Germany. In our schools, the general skill levels of the pupils are delcining - while their school notes go up. What happened is that the authoprities tried to cosmetically correct the bad performance results by lowering the standards. And necessarily this causes a terrible backfiring.

Children, and peope, are not all of the same skill and potential. Everybody, but especially left-leaning people have to finally understand this. Collective mediocrity is not the answer, but to let those being able to perform better performing better indeed instead of ordering them back and demotivating them so that they should fall back into line with the inferior performers, compared to them. Each and everybody to his abilities, not everybody according to a general level of low mediocrity. Nobody ha sht right to demand to be seen as a big number just because that is what he wants to be. Everbody should have the right to prove that he is, and if he is not, than he should find his place at a lower ranking. Those places below the top are needed, too.

Husband of a good friend of mine is school teacher. He is ordered to give class exames with three mistake still an A-grade! If the kid is at risk to not make it to the next class, he is ordered to give notes in such a way that transfer to naxt class becomes possible nevertheless! If the general note-score of the school is falkling beyond a mean level demanded by the ministry, then all teachers are unofficially told and pressed to reduce the standards and to give better notes, in order to raise the general school performance level that way!

Sorry, I'm straying off, but this is issue is dear to me, and the conspirarcy in German education system is shocking, imo. Not only do we sell the next egneration into misery that way, we also ruin our nation's own future. And the reform of the university grades and titles, from German engineer diploma to these isiotic bachelors and masters - don'T even get me sdtarted. The Bologna process, as the EU euphemistically calls it, is a crime, and a textbook example of utmost bureaucratic dillentism. The cynical gangster having initiated it should be lined up at the wall and shot, in all seriousness. I'm so tired, so very very tired of seeing this sick breed of retards ruining our nations and our whole cultural sphere and running parties in celebrating themselves for it.

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