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kpete

(71,981 posts)
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 06:09 PM Dec 2013

Prowling For Homeless Men - $100.00 A Head - Killing two birds with one radioactive stone

But it has been such an ethical operation thus far?

You have to credit the Japanese kleptocracy for at least being consistent.

(Reuters) - Seiji Sasa hits the train station in this northern Japanese city before dawn most mornings to prowl for homeless men. He isn't a social worker. He's a recruiter. The men in Sendai Station are potential laborers that Sasa can dispatch to contractors in Japan's nuclear disaster zone for a bounty of $100 a head.

"This is how labor recruiters like me come in every day," Sasa says, as he strides past men sleeping on cardboard and clutching at their coats against the early winter cold. It's also how Japan finds people willing to accept minimum wage for one of the most undesirable jobs in the industrialized world: working on the $35 billion, taxpayer-funded effort to clean up radioactive fallout across an area of northern Japan larger than Hong Kong.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-fukushima-workers-idUSBRE9BT00520131230

Killing two birds with one radioactive stone.

And yet, the shame lies only with the victims of homelessness, apparently.

Some of America's biggest jerks libertarians will read this story with their biggest 'free market boners'.

http://rising-hegemon.blogspot.com/2013/12/but-it-has-been-such-ethical-operation.html
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Prowling For Homeless Men - $100.00 A Head - Killing two birds with one radioactive stone (Original Post) kpete Dec 2013 OP
Japan is a horror show. When we have a similar on going disaster here mountain grammy Dec 2013 #1
No, I disagree... Shandris Dec 2013 #2

mountain grammy

(26,608 posts)
1. Japan is a horror show. When we have a similar on going disaster here
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 06:17 PM
Dec 2013

I have no doubt, the same thing will happen.

 

Shandris

(3,447 posts)
2. No, I disagree...
Tue Dec 31, 2013, 06:21 PM
Dec 2013

They won't ask them, they'll just -conscript- them around here.

But seriously...yeah, it's pretty bad over there right now with that situation.

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