Posted on 01/30/2005 3:18:08 PM PST by A123
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. .... The waitress, an unemployed information technology professional, had said that she was willing to work in a bar at night and had worked in a cafe. .... 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. Last month German unemployment rose for the 11th consecutive month to 4.5 million, taking the number out of work to its highest since reunification in 1990.
(Excerpt) Read more at portal.telegraph.co.uk ...
Gotta love that German Democratic Republic.
Let's see..........hmmmmm. A glass of wine = or oral sex? Too tough to tell them apart I guess.
There've always been a lot of whores in Germany anyway ~ it's not at all shocking to see that they've gone ahead and made it a requirement for unemployed women.
Hate to brak the news to you, but there are plenty of sleazes right here in the good old USA, so I fail to see the point of your slam.
Prior post same subject
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331841/posts
If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits
Whether there are hookers in the US or not, leastwise your dear old mom can't be made to take a job in a whorehouse or lose her unemployment benefits.
Seems that is not the case in Deutschland ~ it's become mandatory.
The Old Germany is back FUR SHUR. Look for the man with spikey helmet, eh?!
European enlightenment rolls merrily along.
In a word, INSANE!
Proving that it's a really, really strange country.
well, they do love their beer! something's gotta give somewhere! :-)
Of course a Christian would see this as sin -- could they get an exemption for freedom of conscience -- but then I forgot, there are apparently are no more Christians left in Germany.
I can understand this logic ... and I think that politicians who get voted out of office at age ... say 51 ... should also be forced to work in the sex industry. Wouldn't it be poetic justice to walk into a house of ill repute and see Tom Dashle sitting there in his panty hose with his legs crossed? Afterall ... he's been a prostitute all of his life.
German (and Dutch) Bump!
Reading further in the article we find:
The government had considered making brothels an exception on moral grounds, but decided that it would be too difficult to distinguish them from bars. As a result, job centres must treat employers looking for a prostitute in the same way as those looking for a dental nurse.
It appears this is not a bureaucratic FUBAR but a considered position of an increasingly ill-guided culture. Now America may not be much better, but I think we can agree that this particular travesty would not floated here.
Christianity will shortly be outlawed by the all seeing, all knowing European Commission of the EU.
Besides, under Islam, all none Muslim women are whores anyways, so what's the problem?
So much for using International law to guide our own.
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