Posted on 10/01/2014 12:45:44 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A city in western Germany will start a controversial project on Wednesday to employ alcohol and drug addicts to clean the streets in return for beer, tobacco, food and small amounts of cash.
Social workers will closely oversee the project dubbed “Pick Up” in a dilapidated area around the central railway station of the industrial city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
An initial six people will sweep streets and collect garbage in return for €1.25 per hour, a warm meal and three bottles of beer after their shift, as well as tobacco for smokers. …
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€1.25 per hour is NOT a living wage. Liberals should be up in arms over this!
We employ alcoholics and addicts too.
It’s called Hollywood film production.
It seems like a sensible plan to me.
Such people need a little bit of dignity, a warm meal, and a few drinks and smokes.
Why the hell not!?
As the libs say, you might as well, they are going to do it anyway.
Alcohol, cigs and (maybe) food ?
VERY sensible plan.
I seem to recall reading an article about this on FR, perhaps a year ago. Was that a different city or is this just an old article being recycled?
Just what the world needs most. More socialist social worker oversight!
A major industry in Germany these days. Self-perpetuating and ever growing.
Food, beer and cigarettes...that was where the money was going to go anyway. Cuts out the middle man (the store).
Would not work here, some lawyer would round them all up and file suit, claiming the gov’t got these people addicted to alcohol and tobacco, which rendered them unable to find work, or some such nonsense, that would cost the taxpayer ten thousand times more than the initial program.
How big are these bottles?
In Seattle the city built them dorms. They panhandle for the money to drink but otherwise....
Michael Medved has talked about it on his syndicated radio show.
And in California they are giving away free pot.
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