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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (75140)	6/12/2011 2:03:59 PM
From: critical_mass	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 218163

"I think you are mixing up what they call mini-job - this is a person that works no more than 15 hours a week and is entitled to long list of benefits. Many houswifes with children will take such a job to compliment income in their free time. It is indeed a great idea to assist those that want to work but little time over the week." It was marketed that way, but as far as i know, 400€ jobs have replaced regular full-time positions and people who need full time work are forced into the 400€ slots. The Wikipedia article, while probably not 100% accurate notes that almost 5 million people are working at mini-jobs. It is more than just people who want to work part time. The issue of getting the long term unemployed off the books is a different situation. The unemployment rate is reduced even though the person still gets the money, but also earns 1€ per hour raking leaves or picking up garbage in the parks. Details aside, i don't think the stats are 100% clean. The notion that a bailout of Greece is also a bailout of French and German banks is understated if not almost completely absent from the mainstream media in Germany. I find it almost unimaginable that after years of the ECB or other supranational institutions watching the behavior the PIIGS economies, i.e. between 1950-2000 that the decision makers could have unwillingly accepted deception unless they were incompetent. Greece (and perhaps the others) told lies that people wanted to hear or were willing to accept in the short term even though they knew the facts were probably different.