{"id":3099,"date":"2011-01-01T01:45:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T00:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/germany2\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T01:45:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T00:45:57","slug":"entries-00571-00580","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/germany2\/entries-00571-00580\/","title":{"rendered":"Entries 00571-00580"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00580:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>3 APRIL 2004, SATURDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the Federal Labor Office &#8211; or Agency. At the very top of the building are the offices of the executive committee, whose members are supposed to organize the Moloch. Mismanagement has gone on here for years, and only after the public has managed to get a glimpse inside have the scandals been exposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was the job-hunting scandal, for example, when the bureaucrats simply faked the numbers. And the most recent scandal, when it was discovered that in-house software made the fakery even easier, by recording every single action relating to an unemployed person as an attempt to find that person a job. Falsified numbers piled up at headquarters on a massive scale, and were proudly announced to the public as real efforts on the part of the bureaucrats to find work for the unemployed.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>3 APRIL 2004, SAMSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p>\u201eDie Bundesanstalt: Ganz oben residieren die, die den Moloch organisieren sollen: der Vorstand. Jahrelang wurde hier Missmanagement betrieben, erst als er in den Blickpunkt der \u00d6ffentlichkeit ger\u00e4t, fliegen die Skandale auf.<\/p>\n<p>Der Vermittlungsskandal: Beamte f\u00e4lschen Zahlen. Und dann der neueste Skandal: Die hauseigene Software macht das Tricksen leicht. Jeder Handgriff f\u00fcr Arbeitslose kann als Vermittlung gez\u00e4hlt werden. Massenhaft gef\u00e4lschte Zahlen laufen in der Zentrale auf und werden stolz verk\u00fcndet.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00579:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>2 APRIL 2004, FRIDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 9<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStefan Sell (former Labor Office employee): \u2018I think you have to be clear about the fact that most of the employees \u2013 almost all the employees of the Federal Labor Agency \u2013 have grown up in a very centralized, hierarchical system.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s a system with things like clear remuneration and salary brackets and a well-defined structure, and it\u2019s been shaping the mentality of these people for a period of from forty-five to fifty years.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>2 APRIL 2004, FREITAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 9<\/p>\n<p>\u201eO-Ton<br \/>\nStefan Sell:<br \/>\n(ehemaliger BA- Mitarbeiter)<br \/>\n\u201aMan muss sich, glaube ich, sehr deutlich klar machen, dass die meisten Mitarbeiter \u2013 fast alle Mitarbeiter der Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit \u2013 aufgewachsen sind in einem sehr zentralistischen hierarchischen System, mit Verg\u00fctungs- und Besoldungsgruppen, mit klaren Strukturen, und dieses System hat \u00fcber 45, 50 Jahre lang die Menschen geformt.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00578:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>1 APRIL 2004, THURSDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 8<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that\u2019s the way the reform efforts that are so proudly presented by the politicians collapse. Take the project called \u2018Labor Office 2000\u2019, for example. This was supposed to result in a scaled-down administrative structure, modernization, teamwork.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose terms were red flags to the bureaucrats on the Staff Council.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c \u2018Labor Office 2000\u2019 was a reform effort that lasted ten years and swallowed up millions in taxpayers\u2019 money. In the end, the Staff Council won a complete victory: the Labor Office had more employees than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>1 APRIL 2004, DONNERSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 8<\/p>\n<p>\u201eUnd so scheitern Reformprojekte, die die Politik stolz pr\u00e4sentiert. Wie etwa das Arbeitsamt 2000. Mit schlanker Verwaltung, Modernisierung, Teamarbeit.<\/p>\n<p>Reizthemen f\u00fcr den Personalrat.<\/p>\n<p>So wird der Apparat nicht schlanker, sondern w\u00e4chst weiter.<\/p>\n<p>Die Reform dauert fast 10 Jahre und verschlingt Millionen, am Ende siegt der Personalrat auf ganzer Linie: noch mehr Besch\u00e4ftigte f\u00fcr die Bundesanstalt.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00577:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>31 MARCH 2004, WEDNESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 7<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are still other problems. One of them holds its meetings behind these windows: the Staff Council. The Staff Council represents the interests of the bureaucrats and, according to those people who have dealt with it, blocks everything that has even a whiff of change about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirk Niebel, member of Germany\u2019s liberal party, the FDP, and former Labor Agency employee: \u2018In the Central Staff Council the mentality that dominates is the mentality of maintaining the status quo. They operate according to the \u201cSwabian Rule of Three\u201d: 1) we\u2019ve never done that before, 2) this is the way it\u2019s always been, and 3) just who do you think you are?\u2019 &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>31 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MITTWOCH, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 7<\/p>\n<p>\u201eDie Bundesanstalt, sie hat noch mehr Probleme. Eines tagt hinter diesen Scheiben: Der Personalrat. Er vertritt die Interessen der Beamten und verhindert alles, was auch nur nach Ver\u00e4nderung riecht. Sagen die, die mit ihm zu tun hatten.<\/p>\n<p>Dirk Niebel, FDP:<br \/>\n(ehemaliger BA- Mitarbeiter)<br \/>\n\u201aIm Hauptpersonalrat herrscht eine Mentalit\u00e4t von Besitzstandswahrung vor, nach dem schw\u00e4bischen Dreisatz: das haben wir noch nie gemacht, das war schon immer so, da k\u00f6nnte ja jeder kommen.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00576:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>30 MARCH 2004, TUESDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 6<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilmar Schneider (labor market expert): \u2018In actual fact, though, something else has been happening. Groups with opposing interests have learned how to handle the available resources and make common cause with one another. This is to the detriment of third parties that are out of the loop. The result is a kind of cartel of silence, and groups that are normally in opposition all have a policy of: you give something to me, and I\u2019ll give something to you.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirk Niebel, member of Germany\u2019s liberal party, the FDP, and former Labor Agency employee: \u2018Over the years, self-administration has become a kind of self-service, and that\u2019s one of the difficult problems we have now.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>30 M\u00c4RZ 2004, DIENSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 6<\/p>\n<p>\u201eO-Ton<br \/>\nHilmar Schneider:<br \/>\n(Arbeitsmarktforscher)<br \/>\n\u201aFaktisch ist es aber etwas anders gekommen, die gegens\u00e4tzlichen Interessensparteien haben gelernt, mit den vorhandenen Mitteln umzugehen und sozusagen gemeinsame Sache zu Lasten unbeteiligter Dritter zu machen, das Ergebnis ist ein Schweigekartell, da wird also sozusagen hinter den Kulissen Interessenspolitik gemacht, nach dem Motto: Gibst du mir, gebe ich Dir.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>O-Ton<br \/>\nDirk Niebel, FDP:<br \/>\n(ehemaliger BA- Mitarbeiter)<br \/>\n\u201aDiese Selbstverwaltung hat sich \u00fcber die Jahre hin fast zu einer Selbstbedienung entwickelt, und das ist eines der gro\u00dfen Probleme, die wir jetzt  haben.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00575:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>29 MARCH 2004, MONDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 5<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe German Federal Labor Agency has spent billions for an evidently absurd program of further education, and it\u2019s been done with the blessing of the agency\u2019s administrative board, which sits behind these windows.<\/p>\n<p>This is supposed to be the agency\u2019s watchdog committee: a group of politicians, employers, and union representatives. Germany\u2019s most significant training and education facilities are their responsibility, so they can profit from further education, because they wangle contracts for themselves here. What is supposed to happen is that employers and union representatives keep an eye on each others\u2019 activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>29 M\u00c4RZ 2004, MONTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 5<\/p>\n<p>\u201eDie Bundesanstalt: Milliarden f\u00fcr eine offensichtlich unsinnige Weiterbildung. Abgesegnet vom Verwaltungsrat &#8211; hinter diesen Scheiben sitzt er. Das Kontrollgremium der Beh\u00f6rde:<\/p>\n<p>Politiker, Arbeitgeber, Gewerkschafter. Ihnen geh\u00f6ren die wichtigsten Bildungseinrichtungen der Republik. Sie profitieren also von der Weiterbildung, schanzen sich hier die Auftr\u00e4ge zu.  Eigentlich sollten Arbeitgeber und Gewerkschafter sich hier gegenseitig kontrollieren.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00574:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>28 MARCH 2004, SUNDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut behind the scenes, they wanted to do more than simply pay out benefits and announce the unemployment figures. The bureaucracy wanted to act as an employment agency. The early efforts were quite touching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut by the end of the 1970\u2019s, even that wasn\u2019t enough. The bureaucrats puffed themselves up and discovered a new field: further schooling and retraining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dThe Labor Office spent billions on further education and retraining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the 1970\u2019s, cabinet makers became metal workers.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the 1980\u2019s, teachers became dance instructors.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the 1990\u2019s, draftsmen became computer scientists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHilmar Schneider (labor market expert): \u2018We\u2019ve done research that indicates that on the average, those people who participated in these retraining schemes were no better off than if they hadn\u2019t been reschooled at all. In some cases, they were even worse off than they were before.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>28 M\u00c4RZ 2004, SONNTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>\u201eDoch hinter den Kulissen will man schon bald mehr als nur Auszahlen und Verk\u00fcnden.  Die Beamten versuchen sich in Arbeitsvermittlung. R\u00fchrend die ersten Anl\u00e4ufe.<\/p>\n<p>Auch die Vermittlung gen\u00fcgt ihr Ende der 70iger Jahre nicht mehr. Die Beh\u00f6rde bl\u00e4ht sich auf, entdeckt ein neues Feld: die Weiterbildung.<\/p>\n<p>F\u00fcr Milliarden l\u00e4sst die Bundesanstalt Arbeitslose weiterbilden und umschulen.<\/p>\n<p>In den 70ern etwa vom Schreiner zum Schlosser.<br \/>\nIn den 80igern vom P\u00e4dagogen zum Tanzlehrer.<br \/>\nIn den 90ern vom Bauzeichner zum Informatiker.<\/p>\n<p>Doch alle diese Ma\u00dfnahmen bringen den Arbeitslosen eigentlich wenig. Im Gegenteil, sagen die Experten.<\/p>\n<p>O-Ton<br \/>\nHilmar Schneider:<br \/>\n (Arbeitsmarktforscher)<br \/>\n\u201aWir haben Untersuchungen angestellt und da l\u00e4sst sich ablesen, dass die Vermittlungschancen der Teilnehmer an Weiterbildung im Durchschnitt nicht besser sind, als sie auch ohne diese Ma\u00dfnahme gewesen w\u00e4ren, mitunter sind sie sogar schlechter, als sie vorher waren.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00573:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>27 MARCH 2004, SATURDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 3<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirk Niebel, member of Germany\u2019s liberal party, the FDP, and former Labor Agency employee: \u2018When the forerunner of the Labor Agency was established, there were remarkably few unemployed, in relative terms, and there was steady economic growth. Under those conditions, people working in the Labor Office were able to use public money to achieve something good, in the form of various social services.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the bureaucrats have been doing some good: they\u2019ve been paying out unemployment benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd announcing the unemployment figures, a ritual that the bureaucratic apparatus has performed stoically, month after month, year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>27 M\u00c4RZ 2004, SAMSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 3<\/p>\n<p>\u201eO-Ton<br \/>\nDirk Niebel, FDP:<br \/>\n(ehemaliger BA- Mitarbeiter)<br \/>\n\u201aBeim Aufbau der Bundesanstalt f\u00fcr Arbeit gab es vergleichsweise au\u00dferordentlich wenig Arbeitslose und es gab stetiges Wirtschaftswachstum, und unter diesen Voraussetzungen konnte man mit \u00f6ffentlichen Geldern in Form von Sozialleistungen was Gutes tun in dieser Beh\u00f6rdenstruktur.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Und die Beamten tun Gutes: Arbeitslosengelder auszahlen.<\/p>\n<p>Und Arbeitslosenzahlen verk\u00fcnden. \u00dcber drei Jahrzehnte vollzieht der Apparat stoisch sein Ritual, Monat f\u00fcr Monat, Jahr f\u00fcr Jahr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00572:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>26 MARCH 2004, FRIDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNurenberg, Regensburger Strasse: the largest government authority anywhere in Europe is located here, the German Federal Labor Agency, with a total of 90,000 employees. The colossus has an annual budget of 57 billion euros (over 70 billion U.S. dollars). And it is change-resistant in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStefan Sell (former Labor Agency employee): \u2018Anyone who insists that such a government authority \u2013 even if they now call it an \u201cagency\u201d \u2013 can be quickly restructured is simply kidding themselves, and everyone else.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the southern edge of Nurenberg, the labor office\u2019s gigantic headquarters \u2013 with its quiet-rooms and fitness salons \u2013 looms up out of its surroundings. A bureaucrat\u2019s dream palace, built during the fat years. When the bureaucrats first moved in, there were barely 250,000 unemployed in Germany.\u201d (Translator\u2019s Note: The latest German unemployment figure, released at the beginning of March 2004, was 4,641,000, or 11.1%. Hans-Olaf Henkel, former head of a federation of German industrialists, stated recently in a discussion program on Germany\u2019s n-tv channel that in the early 1960\u2019s there were fewer unemployed persons in all of West Germany than there are bureaucrats at the German Federal Labor Agency now.)<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>26 M\u00c4RZ 2004, FREITAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>\u201eN\u00fcrnberg, Regensburger Strasse: Hier residiert die gr\u00f6\u00dfte Beh\u00f6rde Europas, die Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit: 90 tausend Besch\u00e4ftigte insgesamt. Der Koloss verwaltet 57 Milliarden Euro j\u00e4hrlich.  Und ist bis heute resistent gegen jede Art von Ver\u00e4nderung.<\/p>\n<p>O-Ton<br \/>\nStefan Sell:<br \/>\n(ehemaliger BA- Mitarbeiter)<br \/>\n,Jeder, der behauptet, man k\u00f6nnte eine solche Beh\u00f6rde \u2013 auch wenn sie jetzt Agentur hei\u00dft &#8211; in kurzer Zeit umbauen, der bel\u00fcgt sich selber und der \u00d6ffentlichkeit in die Tasche.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Am S\u00fcdrand von N\u00fcrnberg stampft die damalige Bundesanstalt eine gigantische Zentrale aus dem Boden, mit Gymnastikraum und Ruhezonen. Ein Beamtenpalast, erbaut in fetten Zeiten. Als es mit \u201eSack und Pack\u201c ins neue Haus geht, gibt es knapp 250.000 Arbeitslose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00571:<\/p>\n<p>(Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. German version below \u2013 German language character set required for correct display.)<\/p>\n<p>25 MARCH 2004, THURSDAY, MUNICH, GERMANY.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Bureaucrats: How They Do It, and Not Just at the Universities &#8211; 1<\/p>\n<p>The following is a transcript of a television program recently broadcast on German television:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cModerator, Anja Reschke:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What was once the German labor office is now called an \u2018agency\u2019 and unemployed workers are now known as \u2018customers\u2019. That is basically what recent reforms amount to. A rather rough summation of the situation, or to put it another way: job placement in Germany is outmoded. The German labor office was never set up to deal with continually rising unemployment and the demands of modern business. Outdated, inflexible, complicated \u2013 a relic of the 1960\u2019s, not at all prepared for times of crisis. Journalists Gesine Enwaldt and Stephan Stuchlik report on a bureaucratic leviathan, the very existence of which many people are beginning to question.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>(To be continued)<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love (my country) more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.&#8221; &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not the solution of the question of national unity which stood at the beginning of the road to catastrophe (for Germany), but the failure to settle the question of freedom.\u201d &#8211; German Historian Heinrich August Winkler<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kind of thing I find particularly shameful in post-war German history,\u201d a friend reports, \u201cis that after 1945 the Federal Republic refused to provide the usual military widow\u2019s pension to Caroline von Stauffenberg.\u201d \u201cStauffenberg?\u201d I said. \u201cHer husband, Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg,&#8221; she explained, \u201cattempted to assassinate Hitler by setting off a bomb at the dictator\u2019s military headquarters in East Prussia on 20 July 1944. Stauffenberg is honored in Germany today, but he was for a long time after the war &#8212; like Thomas Mann, Marlene Dietrich, every deserter from the Wehrmacht, and so many other Germans &#8212; regarded with contempt and widely considered to be a traitor to his country. I wonder how he would have been treated at a place like the Technical University of Munich.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>25 M\u00c4RZ 2004, DONNERSTAG, M\u00dcNCHEN, DEUTSCHLAND<\/p>\n<p>Deutschlands B\u00fcrokraten: wie sie es schaffen, und nicht nur an den Universit\u00e4ten &#8211; 1<\/p>\n<p>Das Drehbuch einer \u201ePanorama\u201c-Sendung:<\/p>\n<p>\u201eAnmoderation<br \/>\nAnja Reschke:<\/p>\n<p>Die Anstalt hei\u00dft jetzt Agentur \u2013 die Arbeitslosen Kunden \u2013 das ist im Kern &#8211; die Reform der Beh\u00f6rde, die in Deutschland die Arbeitslosigkeit verwaltet. Zwar etwas grob zusammengefasst, aber in der Tat scheint unsere Stellenvermittlung nicht mehr zeitgem\u00e4\u00df. Auf st\u00e4ndig steigende Arbeitslosigkeit und neue Anspr\u00fcche von Unternehmen war die Beh\u00f6rde bei Gr\u00fcndung nicht eingestellt. Angestaubt, unflexibel, umst\u00e4ndlich \u2013 ein Relikt aus den 60er Jahren. Und nicht vorbereitet auf Krisenzeiten. Gesine Enwaldt und Stephan Stuchlik \u00fcber einen beh\u00f6rdlichen Giganten, bei dem sich viele die Frage nach der Existenzberechtigung stellen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(Fortsetzung folgt.)<\/p>\n<p>Quelle: \u201eBeh\u00f6rde der Blockierer \u2013 Die unreformierbare Bundesagentur f\u00fcr Arbeit\u201c, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, PANORAMA, Nr. 638 vom 18.03.2004, Bericht: Gesine Enwaldt, Iris Ockenfels, Stephan Stuchlik, Kamera: Torsten Lapp, Schnitt: Philipp Kagelmacher<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIch liebe (mein Land) mehr, als alle anderen L\u00e4nder auf der Welt, und genau aus diesem Grund bestehe ich auf das Recht, es ewig zu kritisieren.\u201c &#8211; James Baldwin<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany2\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/Germany<br \/>\nNovel: http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/robbennett\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>============================ENTRY NUMBER 00580: (Eine Deutsche Fassung steht weiter unten. 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