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Methinks the whole point of the reform was to have an excuse to reduce overall social spending.

That sounds about right. Still, the I think purely administrative aspect made sense on its merits.

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adults receive just € 359, children an arbitrary fraction of the same.

That about children is the main problem, in therms of unconstitutional rough estimates.

True. I must confess I ran out of time to go into that in detail.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed Feb 10th, 2010 at 05:10:27 PM EST
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