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Man refuses food over welfare cuts
TheLocal.de ^ | 19 Nov 12 11:48 CET | (The Local/jcw)

Posted on 11/19/2012 12:56:36 PM PST by Olog-hai

An unemployed Berlin man who had his state welfare cut to nearly nothing is refusing to eat, in an attempt to make the government consider introducing a basic income. …

He denies bringing the situation upon himself by turning down multiple job offers, saying that as a trained and experienced occupational therapist, it would be unthinkable to work in a badly paid, unskilled job.

He turned down shifts at a call center for €7 ($8.96) an hour, calling it “slave labor”, while a job in the office of a temping agency would make Boes what he called a “slave master”, both of which were, morally, not options for him. Instead, he wants an unconditional basic income paid by the government for everyone.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: lazy; sloth; socialism; welfaredependence
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To: ex91B10

Where people hear you on the phone and then offer you a job based on the customer service?


41 posted on 11/19/2012 5:50:48 PM PST by tbw2
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To: tbw2
Pretty much it. Plus a bit of personality .

Hell, I've got jobs while hitch-hiking.

I've had a very weird life.

Impeach the kenyan or secession.


42 posted on 11/19/2012 6:02:36 PM PST by ex91B10 (We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
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