Care amok: Our children are paying for the collapse of the social systems!

Care amok: Our children are paying for the collapse of the social systems!

Nursing care insurance in Germany is on the verge of financial abyss. What may sound dramatic at first is actually part of a larger problem: the entire social system is heading for collapse. However, responsible politicians are more likely to continue to delay the inevitable end, which above all threatens the future of children. They can hardly defend themselves against the burdens that are placed on them. How the article from www.tichyseinblick.de reports, it is this generational contract that is beginning to falter.

The problem begins with elementary legal principles. For over a hundred years, according to the Civil Code, human legal capacity begins at birth. Ironically, however, children lack essential rights such as the right to vote, making them vulnerable to the decisions of those in power. Children are therefore the perfect debtors - unprotected and mostly ignorant of political manipulation.

Redistribution and its consequences

Redistribution, a central mechanism in German social policy, is based on the simple rule: Young takes care of old. But this system is becoming increasingly ill because the balance between performance and return is out of balance. While there used to be three to four service providers for every recipient, this ratio has now deteriorated dramatically. In particular, long-term care insurance, which was originally intended to be the cornerstone of social security, is rapidly eroding.

Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, recently admitted that nursing care insurance contributions in particular are rising dramatically. A trend that continues in all areas of social security, such as can be read in the article on www.tichyseinblick.de is.

A moral dilemma

A particularly blatant example of the injustice in the system is provided by the comparison of two extremely different lives: On the one hand, the story of Rosa Rees, a mother of nine children who only received a fraction of what her children paid into the pension fund each month. On the other hand, the controversial director Patricia Schlesinger, whose unjustifiably high pension was subsequently litigated in court. The question of justice in such cases remains an open wound.

This unsustainable system is financed by shifting debt to future generations. While the Greens try to offer solutions with rhetoric and the SPD with so-called generational capital, the future remains uncertain. Olaf Scholz, the Federal Chancellor, recognized the need to address the nation's children's rooms years ago. But instead of designing a sensible future, the system is drifting further and further into debt.