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Slota: Many Gypsies Won't Work Even If We Promise Them the Moon
Friday 07 May 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, May 7 (TASR) - Slovak National Party (SNS) chairman Jan Slota and his advisor, Slovakia's Roma Parliament head Ladislav Fizik, on Friday agreed that the biggest problem facing the Roma is unemployment.
"It's necessary to give work to those who want to work. Unfortunately, however, we observe that there is a large percentage of them who are too lazy to work and won't work even if we promise them the moon," Slota told TASR.
"We don't want to shoot them out or burn them. We only want to introduce law enforcement among asocials ... and under asocials I mean asocials of both Gypsy and Slovak ethnicity. So that some asocial types don't think that they can enter a grocery, fill up their shopping basket and leave without paying. So that they don't go onto a field and take (potatoes) without planting a single potato," said Slota in response to a TASR question why SNS criticises (violent) attacks against Roma in Hungary while it itself lambastes Slovak Roma.
SNS proposes linking payments of social benefits to a set amount of hours of community service work. "I don't see any reason why the Gypsies in settlements, which are in dreadful condition when it comes to hygiene, why they shouldn't work off at least a few hours there. They could tidy it up there at least, and at the same time they'd also work for their social benefits," added Slota.
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