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Mercnbeth -> "Work-fare" versus Welfare in Germany (1/31/2005 9:47:01 AM)
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If adopted in the US it could reduce the welfare roles exponentially as well as the ranks of the unemployed. Although this article specifically identifies woman, I anticipate there would be an equal demand on the male side of the business, especially in the gay bath houses.
Quoting from the newspaper....
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Source: (News Telegraph 1/31/05) A 25-year-old waitress who turned down a job providing "sexual services'' at a brothel in Berlin faces possible cuts to her unemployment benefit under laws introduced this year. Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit. "There is now nothing in the law to stop women from being sent into the sex industry," said Merchthild Garweg, a lawyer from Hamburg who specializes in such cases. "The new regulations say that working in the sex industry is not immoral any more, and so jobs cannot be turned down without a risk to benefits."
Eliminating the 'moral' laws, having at their roots Religious fundamentalism/fanaticism, such as prostitution and drugs would without a doubt solve the crime problem in the US. The German solution illustrated here, brings up another benefit - solving unemployment.
The entire article can be found here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/01/30/wgerm30.xml
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