--- On Wed, 12/17/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Work Project?
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 10:28 AM
> I wonder if Obama has thought of this one yet:
>
> A Berlin politician has come under fire for suggesting that
> poor people
> should be encouraged to catch rats by offering them ?1 per
> dead rodent. The
> intriguing idea entails some gnawing practical problems and
> has been called
> "inhuman and cynical".
>http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596705,00.html
>
> At the current exchange rate, that's $1.40/rat. Of
> course I'd have to split
> that with the cats...they catch, I just dispose of the
> dead bodies.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
>
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