5.10.2008

unemployment solution

I think one could solve the unemployment problem as well as the juvenile criminality problem by allowing one of the partners of a couple with children to stay home and take care of the household tasks and the education of the children and paying him or her a normal salary for this work and also giving him or her a pension for the years he or she has stayed home. They should also be easily reintegrated in the job market once their children have fled the nest. This will make many posts available on the job market to people who really want to work. The partners should of course be free to make this choice and it must not necessarily be the wife who stays home.

5.05.2008

Tibet and the Olympic Games

I would like the athletes that support the liberation of Tibet to wear a distinctive sign, like a pin or badge. I know the Olympic Games shouldn't be about politics, but its history proves that politics have been an issue before. I think such a global event can have a positive effect on the actions of the Chinese government