aquascoot wrote on Sep 30
th, 2014 at 7:45am:
Quote:Well said St George, get rid of work for the dole rubbish.
so you would support the government just ignoring the youth of Australia and showing no interest in them.
that is a pathway to disaster.
That is what would happen if the government wilfully ignores unemployed youth for six months.
Quote:people will tolerate being involved in programs they don't particularly like (I'm sure many school children didn't like compulsory education) . but they will decay if they are just ignored.
work for the dole or compulsory study or whatever is a sign we care.
You
still have no idea what really happens at Work for the Dole. Work for the Dole is nothing more than an expensive timewasting exercise and a punishment for being without work.
Dig a hole here. Now fill it in. Sort these beads. Sort these beads again...
We would be better off to abolish Work for the Dole and use the savings plus an additional $10 billion or so to create half a million real government jobs at the minimum wage that people can do when they have nothing else available. The jobs wouldn't be great, but they would put money into pockets, get people off the dole and real community work would get done. We could remove graffiti, clean rubbish from waterways, remove junk and noxious weeds from national parks and other unglamorous stuff that doesn't get done because Work for the Dole isn't community work no matter how much one may pretend otherwise.
I could live with that. Maybe a bit less than minimum wage , but better than paying money out for nothing. Sounds like quite a good idea
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