Friday, Oct. 17, 2003
Germany's Welfare Parasites Own Yachts
Forget those tales of American welfare queens pulling up in Cadillacs to collect their checks. The nutty Germans pay their welfare parasites enough to spring for yachts and luxury living abroad.
The socialist paradise of Deutschland is finally fed up and ready to do something about the welfare monster it created, the New York Times reported today.
Former banker Rolf John, living in high style in Miami with maid service, courtesy of $2,200 a month confiscated from German taxpayers, has the krauts in a dither.
"He's laughing at all of us," raged the tabloid Bild, which broke the story of the man it nicknamed "Florida Rolf." Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has condemned the case as "a really horrible example of welfare abuse."
"It's the perfect case for everybody to get upset about," said Josef Joffe, editor of the weekly Die Zeit. "In a welfare state that was not collapsing under its load, you would just accept it and move on to the next case file. But we're living in another world in Germany today."
German media regularly report on welfare recipients who own yachts and luxury cars.
Well, what do the socialist twits expect when, as the Times put it, they "make being unemployed more lucrative than working"?
Editor's note:
Germany's Welfare Parasites Own Yachts
Forget those tales of American welfare queens pulling up in Cadillacs to collect their checks. The nutty Germans pay their welfare parasites enough to spring for yachts and luxury living abroad.
The socialist paradise of Deutschland is finally fed up and ready to do something about the welfare monster it created, the New York Times reported today.
Former banker Rolf John, living in high style in Miami with maid service, courtesy of $2,200 a month confiscated from German taxpayers, has the krauts in a dither.
"He's laughing at all of us," raged the tabloid Bild, which broke the story of the man it nicknamed "Florida Rolf." Chancellor Gerhard Schroder has condemned the case as "a really horrible example of welfare abuse."
"It's the perfect case for everybody to get upset about," said Josef Joffe, editor of the weekly Die Zeit. "In a welfare state that was not collapsing under its load, you would just accept it and move on to the next case file. But we're living in another world in Germany today."
German media regularly report on welfare recipients who own yachts and luxury cars.
Well, what do the socialist twits expect when, as the Times put it, they "make being unemployed more lucrative than working"?
Editor's note:
