Galina Toktalieva - Diary of Female Photographer©

Oct

6

We both know how big it is

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After useless computer course, where I was send by district job office (AMS) together with other sad unemployed one month before national elections to improve unemployment rate statistics - I felt elated as if after six weeks of imprisonment.

We were forced to participate in this educational show under threat of losing allowance and had spent days in computer halls with archaic machines. Often what I did in the training group was observing how unemployed males flirted with big bosomed woman-trainer and for hours in the row listened to their small talks.
Yesterday after long walk  – now I don’t take tram or underground, because social center didn’t prolonged my reduced price transport card (Mobilpass),
I was gazing at closed doors of Sieben Stern café and recollected press-conference with communist leader Mirko Messner there, which I visited as one of only two interested photographers.
I made photo of homeless man, who was sitting at the bus stop drinking and inspecting his swollen foot (Look!)
When moving along Westbahnstrasse, I came across well known communist author and producer Kurt Palm. He looked as if he was just awaked.

And he preferred not to see me, as many other members of movement do. Being true to group solidarity they may suspect outsiders in anti-communist dirtiness, what in my case is not true. I find many communists are touching and cute.

I like, for example, Graz communist Ernest Kaltenegger with his round Buddha face, in spite of fact that he never gives me chance to say a word, because we both know how big IT is.

Political sympathies correlate only indirectly with personal moral and ethical values.
It seems, one can easier approach Joerg Haider or Heinz-Christian Strache, than their political opposites. Personal aura of Strache, as I could sense it, does not emanate secret arrogance, which often the case with Austrian benefactors of humankind.

Persons who officially claim to be protectors of poor and downtrodden,
in reality of personal contacts are often unreachable. Communists, according to my personal experience, have altitude to demonstrate their exaggerated humanity aspect and they want to be rewarded for this demonstrations. Like road with one side-movement, such people and organizations, expect to be supported for their virtual virtues, as, for example, many charity organizations do, when they talk about starving children in Africa intending to expand their budget.

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    2 Responses to “We both know how big it is”

    1. Harry B.P. Jaeger on October 7th, 2008 8:50 am

      Es sollte auch viel mehr in den offiziellen Medien von der Geldverschwendung des AMS berichtet werden.
      Nur die Statistiken füttern und ein Bild “als ob” die Leute einer Beschäftigung nachgingen zu zeigen, ist keine Lösung für Arbeitslosigkeit. Anstatt das Geld in sinnvollere Ausbildungen zu stecken, vermittelt das AMS ständig die Leute zu ein - monatlangen Kursen, die Ihnen in Wahrheit überhaupt nichts einbringen. Die EU Förderungen sollten in diesem Fall besser kontrolliert werden. Was die politische Lage in Österreich betrifft: die Regierenden Parteien müssen sich zukünftig wirklich intensiver mit den Allgemeinen Problemen der Bevölkerung auseinandersetzen. Immerhin beziehen sie horrende Gagen für Ihre Positionen.

      Weiters: in den Info Seiten des MA40,
      Sozial – und - Gesundheitsrecht
      1030 Wien, Erdberg/Thomas – Klestil - Platz 8,
      (Service-TelNr.:01-4000 8040) wird beschreiben, dass die Verlängerung des Mobilpasses für Sozialhilfebezieher
      (wenn weiterhin Sozialhilfe bezogen wird), automatisch nach
      6 Monaten Gültigkeit, per Post erfolgt.
      Diese Serviceleistungen scheinen nicht immer korrekt behandelt zu werden. Sie zwingen Arbeitslose Menschen immer wieder auf ihre eigenen Kosten zu telefonieren. Was wiederum den Sozielen Status widerspricht. Wenn man bedenkt, wie viele Telefonate im Monat nur alleine wegen Behördenumwege zu tätigen sind
      kommt es einem Notstands - u. -Sozialhilfebeziehenden ganz schön teuer.
      LG Harry

    2. Galina on October 7th, 2008 8:46 pm

      Thanks, Harald! All this information about Mobil pass is printed at the backside of paper I already have, but it does not help.
      Today I discovered the reason: my health insurance that is normally based at income data was canceled automatically, because I visited course and considered to be provided for by AMS. But that funny sum which AMS provided for me was extracted by Social center from my monthly allowance.

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