Posted on 04/13/2010 9:32:14 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
Notice the bush growing inside the rusty playground equipment, the skeleton of the former slide and all the trash around it. Hundreds of people look at it from their window everyday and keep complaining that they pay taxes and the city is not cleaning. Actually the city is hiring folks to clean the neighborhoods. Meet the tax-dollars at work (or more like the tax-dollars at rest).
The city government is always trying to put people to work this is why they hire some uneducated folks to do public service (kind of workfare). The city bought them safety jackets and work gear. Make no mistake they have no intention to pick the trash surrounding them. My mom did not go far to look for this view. The photo is taken from the balcony of the apartment where I grew up. It is the visualization of the socialism slogan: “They are pretending to be paying me – I am pretending to be working”.
There are similar programs in the USA. Philadelphia@Work is one of them. It was created by the Ed Rendell at the time when he was Philly’s Mayor. The idea was that if you pay wages to the former welfare recipients they will be able to collect Earned Income Credit coming tax-day as a bonus. Welfare check is not qualified as wages. So Philadelphia is encouraging street sweeping and other public service transitional jobs to get their folks a tax-break. They are probably actually cleaning in Philadelphia. This is not the case in Plovdiv, Bulgaria – as you see from the photo evidence.
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INDEED.
THX.
I often notice people in those yellow jackets “cleaning.” But there’ll be about ten of them cleaning one street corner!! What sense does that make? Obviously it’s all for show.
Two guys are walking down the street. One is digging holes and the other is filling them in. A person asks why they are doing this. One guy says, well the guy that plants the trees was sick today and we still gotta work to get paid.
WOW.
THX.
Socialists gave the capitalist a broom to sweep the streets. They came later - he is not sweeping.
- Why are you not working?
- I can’t find the remote control?
- Where have you seen a broom with a remote control?
- Where have you seen a capitalist with a broom?
99% sure these pics are not from America. Looks like a former soviet republic.
Look at the broom (hand made). Look at the apartments (typical soviet design). Look at the head gear. I could go on.
The photos are from Bulgaria. The story is about the aftermath of the socialism there.
Bulgaria.
This is a nice post, thanks to Ellie and Nadine.
I went to a park once in Dallas in the middle of the day. Sitting there in the middle of the parking lot was a City brish truck, they say there for over an hour.
I hope it was a lunch break.
This is FOX NEWS video about the sweepers in Philadelphia
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/03/29/on-the-job-hunt-philly-works/
See if you can find resemblance..
Same in East Berlin.
Walk into a store whose windows were full of goods. Inside the shelves were bare. Then if you do manage to find something to buy there were four people to help you check out. Four people checking out the same purchase.
In this way it was easy for the communists to claim full-employment.
$12 an hour to sweep sidewalks??
Are they insane?
I know thats a rhetorical question
Make that "100% sure." Look at the last line of the article: "This is not the case in Plovdiv, Bulgaria – as you see from the photo evidence."
Regards,
Did you see the video?
They will earn Earned Income Tax credit for this wages.
Also they have matching work outfits with their Bulgarian counterparts.
This is how socialism works.
Check the link for the Philadelphia sweepers - I just added it to the article because some folks asked.
East German joke:
A man is shopping in a department store in East Berlin. He's looking for a hat for his wife. Frustrated, he goes up to the front desk and asks for a lady's hat. The saleslady replies: "Oh, you are wrong here! Here, we don't have ladies undergarmets. You have to go upstairs to our other department. There, we don't have ladies' hats."
Regards,
yup.
Its crazy
May be if the folks in BG were paid $12/hour like their friends sweeping in Philadelphia - they would be actually sweeping too :)
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