The Chip-Card Idea

 I sat this morning and watched a piece on Bavarian politics.  The CSU 'boss' (Soder) came out and said he was for a new idea.....if you fail the asylum application....no more money to be deposited into your bank account, and giving you 'cash'.  

Instead, you'd get a chip-card which has a definite list of things you can buy, or can't buy.  Like you'd be able to buy normal grocery food.....you wouldn't be able to buy beer or booze.

Necessary?  Well....there's a wide landscape of rejected asylum folks in Germany, which rarely gets discussed.  Exporting/deporting them?  It's a state-by-state thing....mostly because the fed folks don't want the bad-boy image.  Legal fights mostly drawing this out for months, if not years?  Yeah.

Rejection numbers?  Presently, it's up around 30-percent of all applications, but from this group of rejects....it goes onto the next round to appeal.  You can add another six to twelve months onto things.  Depending on which state you are in.....the 2nd review generally doesn't change 'much'.  

So here's the issue brewing....probably a quarter of German society is attached to the idea that if you don't pass the request.....you need to pack and go (they aren't say in a day or two....but in their mind....you probably should get into the mindset.

People opting for quietly disappearing and re-appearing in another EU country?  Well...this topic gets brought up but you can't find statistical data to say it happens, or it doesn't happen.  

Soder's idea?  He's basically saying that once you reach the rejected stage....whatever money the government is providing....ought to be purely for your survival and not for anything beyond that.  

Would the idea pass?  I'm pretty sure it might pass in the state, but be legally challenged.  Nationally?  Not something that the SPD-Green-FDP  government would want to discuss.  

My interest?  Well....if this were accepted....why couldn't you go to the German welfare folks and dump the chip-card on them.....telling them you won't pay for booze, smokes, drugs, or unhealthy lifestyles.   That might rile up ten-percent of the nation real-quick.  

I could see my German wife even supporting this and wanting me chip-carded.....so I couldn't buy any fatty food or anything of a unhealthy nature.