The main question for me is,
WHY IN THE WORLD ARE WELFARE BENEFITS IN THE FINNISH CONSTITUTION IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I have mentioned it here before that the Finnish constitution, unlike the U.S. one (that’s being completely undermined) is a statist orientated document, that reads like a Leftist’s wish list for other to pay for. Without (in this case socialist) statism, we would not be having a problem with Islam and inundation of unwanted migrants.
SDP Committee chair: Focus should be on integration, not benefit cuts
The chair of the Parliamentary Social Affairs and Health Committee, Tuula Haatainen says that proposals to cut registered asylum-seeker benefits is unconstitutional. Instead of fiddling with assistance levels, she says, the government should get integration measures on track.
MP Tuula Haatainen, chair of the Social Affairs and Health Committee, pours cold water on the idea of cutting the amount of monetary assistance given to asylum-seekers with residence permits. The proposal came from Hanna Mäntylä, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, on Sunday.
Experts have labelled other government measures unconstitutional as well. Haatainen says that if asylum-seeker aid were to be cut, then other benefits to the Finnish people should be cut as well.
“Instead of fiddling with assistance levels the government should step up its integration measures and fast,” Haatainen says. “Integration legislation already obliges the kind of inclusivity that Mäntylä wants.”
Integration requires money
Haatainen says the problem is that funds for integration measures such as Finnish teaching are insufficient. Extra government funding should be directed towards language training, work coaching and employment services.
Haatainen says that the best way for countries to best utilise a new migrant workforce is for their integration to be as successful as possible. Some of those arriving in Finland now are highly educated, she notes, and their professional contribution should be introduced smoothly into society.
Employment, Haatainen says, could be improved by shortening the working ban imposed on immigrants with residence permits from the current three months to just one.
Unbelievable! Is the amount of benefits also written in the constitution? Did they write the sum that they are to give to them in the constitution? I doubt that! That would be ridiculous! There are many ways they could tweak these “benefits” to make them really unattractive for the freeloaders while on paper they could say that they are giving them the benefits. They could give the”benefits” in strictly material form (food, shelter, clothing), they could cut the benefit to such a small sum that it would be practically zero, but legally something (like 5€ per month or something like that) and many other ways.
And in essence, why should foreign non-citizen have such constitutionally guaranteed rights in another country!!?
By the way, unlike cutting benefits, setting the so-called “integration” into motion is not a cost-saving measure. On the contrary, it is a huge financial burden in itself and in the case of most of these semiliterate immigrants it is an investment without any hope of return.