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Germany's bedroom economics
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| Last Edited | None Entered Feb 17, 2005 08:06pm |
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| News Date | Friday, February 4, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Now that unemployment in Germany has hit 11.4 percent, it was perhaps inevitable that some politicians there would come up with various quick-fix "solutions" to the huge drain of unemployment compensation on the government's budget.
A young waitress discovered one of these "solutions" recently when she turned down a job as a prostitute and was threatened with the loss of her unemployment benefits because prostitution — "sex workers" is the politically correct term — is a legal occupation in Germany, so a job offer from a brothel cannot be declined.
This is one of the many areas in which we Americans are lagging behind the more advanced thinking in Europe that our intelligentsia want us to imitate. However, in one sense the general pattern of political decision-making is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic: When political solutions create new problems, the answer is never to go back and stop doing what started a string of disasters in the first place. |
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