a sagaciously modest proposal
A Berliner politician has made a sagaciously modest proposal:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,596705,00.html#ref=rss
PIED PIPER PROPOSAL
Berlin’s Poor Should Catch Rats, Says Politician
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”.
Picture the scene — hundreds of poor people armed with clubs chasing rats through the streets of Berlin.
There’s something Dickensian about the notion, but it has been proposed by a Berlin politician who is now being criticized for suggesting that the city’s poor should be enlisted to tackle the growing rat infestation in the center of the German capital.
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The proposition could be made Swiftian by requiring the poor not only to catch and kill the rodents but to cook and eat them as well. This version would have considerable
- economic effects: the food needs requirements of the poor would go down dramatically, saving the city council millions of euros
- ecologic effects: recycling of the rodents would shorten the food chain and lower the energy costs necessary for finding, transporting and preparing non-rodent food
- stress-FREEDOM effects: the rodent hunters and eaters would not have to worry about their next meal
For the above reasons we support the politician’s sagaciously modest proposal and hope that other politicians and CEOs (especially of banks) will follow our advice in adopting the extended version.
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