2001-04-19

Danish Welfare Paradise

Another day walking the bureaucratic jungle... Back to the unbelievable GLASS PALACE with light-green, avantguarde glass facade - there were fancy etchings on the panels, resembling... GRAFITTI. Eight stories facade full of fucking grafiti! Danish design is a world leader, what a building, the atrium as big and more fancy as that of HYATT in Singapore... Awesome! After sitting an hour with my #37 - waiting ticket, I was picked up by another male, strong, 40-ysh. Poul. I think at this point in the proceeding - entry processing - they use males. Same in the lobby, lot of blue-shirted watchmen, for a stupid violent new-danish from Somalia or Lebanon they look just like COPS. Lot of violence have been reported in the danish media by pissed-off wannabee-recipients beeing denied the access to Danish Welfare Paradise... Poul and me had a nice chat about my sick mother in Slovakia, and I promised him a my used railway ticket from Prague to photocopy into my files. He read about my case for like 10 mnts. while I studied pics of his family and vacations on a wall beside him. I'll get something like DKK5,831 (abt.$690) clean each month into my account. And he gave me a paper stating that anyone hiring me old 52 year old fart will get from the City of Ã…rhus DKK52.32($6,20) / Hour. All I have to find a place where they will let me sit by a terminal and do my things. Nice prospects, but at least something is happening on this, so neglected, front!

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