We can’t figure out if this is the most brilliant government program ever or just another waste of taxpayer guilders.
The Times UK has details on the world’s oddest dating service:
Unemployed Dutch women are being offered a €1,400 (£1,150) fashion and beauty makeover and free membership of a dating agency to get them off the dole by finding a solvent husband. Single jobseekers will be given a new hairstyle and outfit, and tips from a life coach on how to attract a new partner or a job.
They will also be given instruction in social and presentation skills and a place on the exclusive matchmaking service Mens & Relatie (People and Relationships), boosted by a professional photograph of their new image. Mens & Relatie claims a 75 per cent success rate in finding long-term partners for its clients.
The thinking behind the scheme, organised by three councils in Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands, is that finding love helps to get the unemployed off state benefits by improving confidence, ambition and motivation. Some local politicians, however, have criticised it as unethical and a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Friesland is the ancestral home of IHateTheMedia.com’s editor’s family (back before they emigrated to the United States legally back in the 1880s). It’s a land of hardworking farmers and stunning blonde women. We’re talking really stunning blonde women.
Our advice: Save the money on the makeovers, Holland. Spend it on more dykes.
Source: Times UK
This post was last modified on June 17, 2010
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The woman in the photo for this story does'nt look like she would need help dating.
Friesland is also the ancestral home of JPAttitude.com's editor's family, who thinks it's only fair to point out that Friesland was originally founded and populated by pirates. There's gotta be some kind of snappy comment I can make about makeovers, dating services, and women-descended-from-pirates who are looking for husbands...
Arrrrrghhhh!
Now THAT is a Stimulus Package I can get BEHIND!
" Our advice: Save the money on the makeovers, Holland. Spend it on more dykes. "
Ooooooooo, sexist slur. Ellen Degenerate is gonna be offended.
BTW, bad advice. The POTUS wants to do that for the next SCOTUS appointment. Don't give him any encouragement.
Uhm...
So basically women are not able to apport to the economy on their own? How WOULD it benefit the economy for a woman to ensnare a rich man?
Oh..... Because since she doesn't work for her money nor is she responsible and the ONLY THING she is useful for is to marry a rich man so SHE can spend HIS money and THAT would help the economy recover? You know rich men tend to be pretty tight with the money and don't want to spend it so it is up to their gold digging wives to spread it around...
Grrreeeaaattt plan Holland!
so that's where Helen Thomas is going .....