He distinguishes between two categories of families. The first have managed to ensure a reasonable standard of living and, when considering whether to extend their family further, are forced to weigh up if an addition would ruin the quality of life they have painstakingly built up. This group is best assisted by the tax breaks. For these families, the problem is that the children cannot be provided for decently, because the parents are out of work or because they cannot afford to give their offspring a proper education. The panacea Orb n's recipe is not to hand out more money in benefits, because new additions will appear regardless, but to provide the parents with jobs and the children an opportunity to attend good schools.
Work is elevated to a panacea, the cornerstone of the new system.
However, Hungary would have to rely on its own strength and not fall prey to illusions that some knight in shining armour would come galloping along on a pristine white steed to whisk the Hungarian damsel in distress out of danger. As he more prosaically put it, Hungary has no Western neighbour who would take the country under its wing as was the case with the Germans, that there are no benefactors in Brussels or American uncles to bail Hungary out from the goodness of their hearts. The new rules on unemployment benefit would put an end to recipients drawing dole money and working illegally on the side. Only those who take part in the public or community work offered to them are now eligible for benefits. As Orb n rightly argues, the various changes have been designed to bring the Hungarian welfare system in line with those of its EU neighbours, an undertaking, which to his mind is an essential concomitant of integrating into the more developed world and of our becoming citizens of Europe.