WheresNWS
RealPoor Master of Posts
Joined: 19 Nov 2002
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 Posted: 09/02/03 - 18:12 Post subject: Welfare Reform
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Not for us...For Germany. This is funny and just another example of why America is the world's only superpower.
http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1432_A_949830_1_A,00.html
| Quote: | Admittedly, he’s been dealt a hard hand by fate. First his wife divorced him and then he lost his job. For more than 10 years he’s been living off welfare in Hanover. Then Germany got to be too much for him; maybe it was the bad weather, maybe it was the depressed economy, no one really knows. But a psychiatrist diagnosed him with a Germany-allergy and said life here was taking its toll on the 64-year-old. So he upped and moved to Miami, where he could see the sunnier side of things from the comfort of a beach-front apartment.
Life in Florida is expensive, however, and the welfare recipient couldn’t afford the apartment on the Gold Coast. But that didn’t stop him from moving in, after all, Germany has an extensive social benefits program for helping people in need. And now he has an $875 apartment completely paid for by the state. |
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