> For example, in Germany, where I live, authorities have done a
> tremendous job in putting unemployed people into cheap and useless job
> trainings to move them from the state of unemployment to being "in
> education/further training".  This way, they don't show up in the
> unemployment statistics, which makes them - step by step - appear a
> bit more appetizing: http://www.destatis.de/indicators/d/arb210ad.htm

I have heard about the so called "one euro" jobs on DW TV. There was 
some poor unemployed mechanic who was doing some awful job scheme for 
one euro an hour (cleaning work at a zoo).

I wanted to scream at the TV, telling him how many opportunities there 
are for skilled blue-collar workers in Australia.

Germans speak good English, why don't they consider migration to Australia.