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To: Snowshoe who wrote (60094)	2/6/2005 5:14:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

A good way of cutting down on unemployment payments. Offer compulsory unpleasant jobs. <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. 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 means women can soon be turfed out of social welfare as people won't want their wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, having to say that they are working as prostitutes and the wives, daughters, sisters and mothers will mostly refuse such work. The government could deal with the men by telling the unemployed to accept a job in the army and sending them to the Russian front [or whatever nasty thing they can come up with, which they always seem able to do]. Men won't want to be moved out of their comfy welfare sinecures to a nasty barracks in the cold [or hot]. Within a year, there would be prostitutes galore to satisfy all those new soldiers, or maybe people would have got real jobs instead. Mqurice