On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:36:00AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > I'm not sure about that. In much of Europe, people have little > incentive to take an "undignified" job if they can't find any other > sort of work. Here in the US there is much more pressure in that > direction.
Much of social security has been eroded (see Hartz 4 in Germany). This is almost certainly going to fuel the fringe parties (ultra-left and ultra-right) in the next election. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
