PZ547 wrote on May 14
th, 2014 at 2:28pm:
Lord Herbert wrote on May 14
th, 2014 at 8:14am:
Bobby. wrote on May 13
th, 2014 at 8:37pm:
I am still trying to figure out how people with disabilities will fare under the new budget.
They have slugged pensioners.
The mantra is: "We don't want to know what's
wrong with you ... we want to know what's
right with you".
If you're in an Iron Lung ... the Work Nazis will figure out some way you can be useful to the State.
I can't help smiling though.
In my little neck of the woods there's an extraordinary number of young people I know by sight who for
years have been partying on a taxpayer life-style of no work, and congregating daily at the local cafes.
This flock of noisy bludgers may soon disappear from the main-strip after well-over a decade of them infesting the place as methadone 'clients' and ex-cons.
They couldn't support the lifestyle you describe on welfare. It's impossible and we all know that.
Smoking cigarettes, and having a cup of coffee every half hour would be easy for them to cover on the DSP with rental assistance and 'supplementary' benefits.
PZ547 wrote on May 14
th, 2014 at 2:28pm:
So, if your account is accurate, they're obtaining money elsewhere
In which case, they're not typically disabled, are they?
I know two of the drug dealers by sight, but I'd be surprised if it was something other than marijuana they're selling. That's why they're left alone by the local cops.
A casual I once worked with also took Monday off every second week to sell 'Mary Jane' around the local pubs.
PZ547 wrote on May 14
th, 2014 at 2:28pm:
Whereas out there, there are people who are genuinely disabled, unable to work and reliant on welfare. They don't sit around drinking latte in sidewalk cafes, nor do they have money or inclination for drugs or drink at taxpayer expense. Instead, they live poor lives in every sense of the word.
There's no possible reason for them not to sit in the sun having a cappuccino or two at pavement cafes from North Sydney to the Far Western suburbs.
PZ547 wrote on May 14
th, 2014 at 2:28pm:
and it does them a grave injustice to portray them as welfare millionaires, drug addicts, etc. in the hope of alienating them from taxpayers' sympathy
I've been careful to describe this lot as 'The Untouchables' who turn up to the local cafes every day of the year while the aging unemployed are beaten over the head to get back to work or do Work for the Dole as I did at age 64.
Is it really necessary for me to spell it out that: Most people on the DSP are genuine cases who are not rorting the system.
I didn't think it was necessary for me to state this as the obvious.