De-registered User wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2013 at 5:05pm:


AND I clearly recall that those private employment agencies that took over from Colonel C'link were not supposed to charge applicants... when did that one sneak under my radar?  I applied for mining work (been there, done that) and they said 'FEE' - - I was of the beleif that this was illegal.... no way, Jose`.  I don't pay anyone to find me a job - you get paid by the person who wants me to fill it, bro!

Footnote:-  Amazing how 'strong and overweening central government' so easily takes over what it wants (micro-managing your life for you and YOU with it) but then lets go anything that actually protects you from predatory actions of others....changes the rules to suit the old mates' club again... and again.....

I mean - how does a dole recipient find say $1500 to get a semi-rigid licence on the off chance he might get a job driving buses during the snow season?

Policy:-  Privatisation and 'user pays' are out..... time the government earned its own way....

Amazing - simply amazing.....

ADDS:-  Somebody stop me!  Bring back the criers of "make the dole bludgers and disability pensioners do clean-up work after the floods and fires and stuff!"

OK, bro (said I) as a disabled pensioner with 15 disabilities, I'll need transport to and from, accommodation, a car to get around and wages at the going rate since I'm happy to work - but not to be a slave.  Alternatively let's do a national lottery and whoever is chosen drops tools and work and home and family etc, and heads off to work for dole money on flood etc clean-up.....

Silence fell...

BRING 'EM ON!   

Sir lastnail wrote on Jun 29^th, 2013 at 1:19pm:


Let them eat cake then nail, or get a smacking job

Adamant wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2013 at 7:07pm:



Well then provide a Job you IGNORANT BASTARD.

There are Jobs Out there, their are employers Screaming for workers, why then do we still keep people unemployed.

Its a wrong attitude that needs to be changed.

unemployed person = skilled worker.

warrigal wrote on Jul 7^th, 2013 at 7:11am:


Abbott is about to do what Hitler did in the 1930s to give employment to millions who were suffering from the Great Depression at that time.

Adolf set the unemployed to build the autobahn and many other magnificent projects across the country.



Adolf Abbott, er, I mean, Tony Abbott is about to open up the northern part of Australia for massive development. At last we will have a PM with some visionary talent for an improved Australian fatherland.

Der Führer, er, I mean Tony ~ will soon have Warrigal digging irrigation ditches up there in the Cape York peninsula where the Salties are as common as dole bludgers in Sydney. 

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jul 7^th, 2013 at 10:13am:


Well... I think you mean 'Budget Deficit' left over by Labor's years of mismanagement. Every time the Libs get into office they're handed the poisoned chalice of years of Labor Party abuse of the national budget.

It's like the Libs are always faced with the job of repairing the rental premises that the previous (Labor) tenants have trashed and vandalised before doing a runner without paying the rent or for the damage.

I think Abbott's vision for the north of Australia is the first genuinely exciting piece of news to come out of Canberra in a great many years.

On the subject of new developments, we here in Sydney have just witnessed billionaire James Packer being given the green light to develop a whopping gambling palace on a prime location next to the harbour.

Once up and running and doing its job of ripping off rich idiots by the plane-load, it will earn NSW sh*tloads of money.

But for myself ~ (and I'm no wowser) ~ I think it's awfully sad that this billion dollar enterprise will be all about parting (rich) fools from their money in order to beef-up the NSW government coffers.

It's on-track to be another Sodom and Gomorrah in our own backyard. I'm not religious, but there's something very depressing about that. Success will be measured in direct proportion to how much people will lose at the tables. 

Aren't we better than that as a people ~ and as a nation? The new building should be named The House of Ruin.

There used to be another House ... in New Orleans ... that was the ruin of many a poor boy ...

Ruin

Mnemonic wrote on Jul 7^th, 2013 at 12:39pm:


You can always join them by becoming a prisoner in one of our Correctional Institutions. 

Hmm - tenants wrecking, no incentive to get out of Povertysville, public housing a ruin and a wasteland of no go areas for non-bogans....

What if we abolish rented public housing and instead said -

"Here!  You move in, you buy this place!  You take care of it and do the maintenance!  You wreck it - it's your problem!  You pay the Guv back at rental rate, and Colonel C'Link gives you Mortgage Assistance instead of Rental Assistance while you are finding work or if you are a pensioner.  You've got a stake in Australia and something to work towards that you can hand on to your brats!  You get a job, you can focus your extra money on improvements or repayments, and nothing provides incentive like home ownership!

Now go forth and don't mutliply too much!"

Just a thought - might improve some of the war zone suburbs..... better than the odd air strike anyway.... too much collateral damage to property in those... and bad publicity...