Hungary’s Needy Given Money to Burn (in Their Furnaces)

February 14th, 2012

Must see.

Via: AFP / YouTube:

Hungary’s central bank, currently at the centre of a dispute between the country’s government and the EU, has launched an unusual social programme to counter the effects of the current cold snap. It’s handing out blocks of disused bank notes to the country’s poorest citizens, so that they can be burned for fuel.

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One Response to “Hungary’s Needy Given Money to Burn (in Their Furnaces)”

  1. alvinroast says:
    February 15, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    This is quite surreal.

    This would have been great fiction like in Atlas Shrugged when the lights were going out in NYC then you have people shoveling moneybricks into their furnaces to try to keep warm.

    Or maybe Fahrenheit 451, but done with books. You know if you insist on reading then you won’t have enough heat. Think of the children!

    I love the idea that the central bank has a fleet of dump trucks for this express purpose.

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