Man refuses food over welfare cuts

TheLocal.de ^ | 19 Nov 12 11:48 CET | (The Local/jcw)

[Olog-hai]

An unemployed Berlin man who had his state welfare cut to nearly nothing is refusing to eat, in an attempt to make the government consider introducing a basic income. …

He denies bringing the situation upon himself by turning down multiple job offers, saying that as a trained and experienced occupational therapist, it would be unthinkable to work in a badly paid, unskilled job.

He turned down shifts at a call center for €7 ($8.96) an hour, calling it “slave labor”, while a job in the office of a temping agency would make Boes what he called a “slave master”, both of which were, morally, not options for him. Instead, he wants an unconditional basic income paid by the government for everyone. …

[Cowgirl of Justice]

He looks like the type who would pay you to do that to him.

[KarlInOhio]

He turned down shifts at a call center for €7 ($8.96) an hour, calling it “slave labor”, while a job in the office of a temping agency would make Boes what he called a “slave master”, both of which were, morally, not options for him. Instead, he wants an unconditional basic income paid by the government for everyone. …

So he wants to be the master holding the whip and not the slave being whipped? Well, isn't that special.

In Atlas Shrugged, John Galt's energy producing machine wasn't powered by atmospheric static electricity but rather by Ayn Rand spinning in her grave from stories like this one.

[KarlInOhio]

To the critics who have labelled him a parasite, Boes said “I asked them what they think of bankers; whether they too are not parasites?”

Yes, they are too. And I don't want either the big bankers or little welfare fuhrers sucking on my blood.

[NativeSon]

if both the gub’mint and the leach hold out long enough, the problems will solve themselves

[TheDon]

Darwin Award Nominee!

[Mouton]

The world has gone mad....not only does everything think they have a right to exist (unless they are fetuses), they think everyone should pay them well for their existance. They look at the term “work” as a four letter word.

I used to laugh at the guy in Times Square who had that sandwich board which read the end is near. The joke is now on me.

[Cicero]

As we used to commiserate with one another in prep school: “Life is tough. And then you die.”

[pgkdan]

I say let him starve. It’s the best way to deal with parasites.

[cableguymn]

He’ll never see it that way. Nor will our own welfare class. It comes from Obama’s stash.

[Cyman]

The man obviously needs some therapy, the occupational kind.

[Bigg Red]

Berlin? Germany? Kindly tell us. There are many Berlins in the USA.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

I’ve done everything from working on a chicken farm to driving a taxi when I was between jobs. I never drew a penny in unemployment benefits in 50 years of work.

[Olog-hai]

How many US-side Berlins use the euro as a currency?

[riri]

He’s a German, he might like that.

[Bigg Red]

Sometimes, we have articles posted from UK publications that are about the US but talk about pounds rather than dollars.

[Chode]

it thinks it's special, maybe it should get sonderbehandlung...

[Desron13]

Is this actually a picture of this parasite? So let me get this straight. Boner Boy here is threatening to deprive us of his continuing existence on this planet unless we pay for his sorry ass’s criminal enterprise of depriving the rest of us valuable oxygen. Hmmmmm... What to do...

[Psycho_Bunny]

Starve, leech.

[ex91B10]

"...as a trained and experienced occupational therapist, it would be unthinkable to work in a badly paid, unskilled job."

Starve a-hole.

Impeach the kenyan or secession.

[ex91B10]

I've got job offers from customers while doing call center work.

Impeach the kenyan or secession.