February 07, 2005

Prostitution
Under Germany's welfare reforms, any woman under 55 who has been out of work for more than a year can be forced to take an available job – including in the sex industry – or lose her unemployment benefit.

Snopes thinks the Telegraph has been had.

posted by Skrik 19 years ago
  • Sadly, No! covered this too.
  • Also MeFi had an article on it a week ago.
  • MeFites will believe anything! Really, it takes them far too long to wonder whether the story might be invented.
  • Despite the falsity of this story, I would still like to use it to launch a facile comparison of German Communism and American Freedomism.
  • Germans...will they never stop with the playful hijinks?