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Very interesting.
posted by
TAPS.
on November 22, 2013 at 3:38 PM
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This is much how it was done in the old west Naut, yes, there was some poverty, but everyone was feed and had a roof over their heads, even the town drunk had a saloon to sweep for his drinks and a stable to clean for his keep without the overburden of heavy government hands...These rainbow people just might be onto something...Old, but whatever works, works.
posted by
UtahJay
on November 21, 2013 at 11:38 PM
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LOl...of course they buy gut rot with the $13.00 and sleep in the park at night so they can then have to clean it up the next day....round and round the bush we go!!
posted by
Kabu
on November 21, 2013 at 7:16 PM
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So it will turn into the cleanest . . . and the drunkest . . . city in Europe! Then what . . . ? 
posted by
JimmyA
on November 21, 2013 at 1:51 PM
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It's really just saving some steps, because if another employer
insists on just paying money, the alcoholics will turn it into beer anyway. And this way, they're at least getting one square meal a day.
posted by
Pat_B
on November 21, 2013 at 12:21 PM
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It is laughable Naut, but ingenius in a way.
Of course they should only use regulars or it will defeat the object.
I can see this spreading though, I wish they would do something
like that here for the out of work drifters.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM
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They ought to do that in Baltimore and Washington D.C.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 21, 2013 at 10:27 AM
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Empty beer cans littering Amsterdam
I guess they throw the empty cans in the street at night to provide work for themselves the following day.Talk about sustainable job creation.
posted by
Setaki
on November 21, 2013 at 9:27 AM
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Empty beer cans in Amsterdam
posted by
Setaki
on November 21, 2013 at 9:23 AM
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