Finnish Politician Suggests Embedding Chips In Citizens To Protect the Welfare State

New submitter janit writes that social benefits to Finnish citizens living outside of Finland have in recent days been the cause of controversy, and links to an article which suggests just how much of a controversy: A politician from the True Finns Party, Pasi Mäenranta, is also worried about the abuse of the benefits. He published a post on Facebook, where he suggests that all Finnish citizens leaving the country be embedded with an identification chip. Sounds like a parallel system might be a popular idea with some U.S. presidential candidates, too.

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Re:He has a point

[MightyYar]

I don't think our education system is a laughingstock - people fall all over themselves to attend school here. Our crappy urban and rural public schools are the laughingstock.