02-02-2005, 09:41 AM
Kylearan,Feb 2 2005, 03:21 AM Wrote:You have to understand that Hartz IV, the law in question, caused a great uproar here in Germany last year. Large demonstrations have been organized, and discussions became very heated very fast, so I would take any article about it with a grain of salt.
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Oddly enough, the law in question seems fairly reasonable to me (although I'm sure the devil is in the details). If someone is going to claim unemployment, and they are offered jobs they are capable of, they should have to take one within a certain amount of time or lose their benefits. Now, making someone immediately take the first job offered may not be a good approach, because you end up with skilled laborers in professions they are not the most efficient at (or something they flat out don't want to do). But at some point, you have to draw the line and make the people take a job or pay their own bills.
The legalized prostitution, on the other hand... If you are going to consider something like that a legitimate profession, you may as well scrap maximum hours, workplace safety, and minimum wage type laws and let people choose to take any crummy job they are willing to do. After all, it's not the governments place to make those judgments, right?