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16 December 2008
Let 'em hunt rodents Berlin politician proposes that the long-term unemployed should be put to work hunting rats.
How can the proposal be inhuman if the system is a bounty and not forcing people to hunt rats? Claiming it is inhuman denigrates professional exterminators.