{"id":1084,"date":"2008-12-17T16:57:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2009-09-25T22:59:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T06:59:34","slug":"bountiful-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Bountiful Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/0,1518,596705,00.html\"><q>Pipe Piper Proposal: Berlin's Poor Should Catch Rats, Says Politician<\/q> in <cite>der Spiegel<\/cite><\/a> &#91;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/deutschland\/0,1518,596596,00.html\">auf Deutsch ist hier<\/a>&#93; <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\"><p>A Berlin politician has come under fire for suggesting that poor people should be encouraged to catch rats by offering them \u20ac1 per dead rodent.<\/p> <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">&#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/span> <p><q>It's inhuman and cynical to send poor people out to chase rats so that Berlin can solve its rat problems,<\/q> said the German Forum for People Without Income.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div> <p>I'm not sure whether <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">das Erwerbslosen Forum Deutschland<\/span> believes that it is better to pay affluent people than poor people, or believes that <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">die Ratten<\/span> should be left unmolested.  I am, however, sure that, <strong>if a \u20ac1 bounty is placed on rats, then people will <em>raise<\/em> rats for the bounty<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pipe Piper Proposal: Berlin's Poor Should Catch Rats, Says Politician in der Spiegel &#91;auf Deutsch ist hier&#93; A Berlin politician has come under fire for suggesting that poor people should be encouraged to catch rats by offering them \u20ac1 per dead rodent. &#91;&#8230;&#93; It's inhuman and cynical to send poor people out to chase rats [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,36,9,104,4],"tags":[334,474,579,473,472],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-economics","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-everyday-absurdity","tag-monkey-dancing","tag-rodentia","tag-state-policy","tag-unintended-consequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}