Ditto. 
Posted on 06/17/2007 2:36:43 PM PDT by llevrok
UP to 80,000 long-term unemployed people will be forced to work full time for the dole, even if they are actively looking for work, under changes to the government's Welfare to Work program annouced today. The full time work for the dole program, introduced in July last year, requires participants to work 25 hours a week for 10 months of the year. Currently, people classified as long-term unemployed, those who have been unemployed for two or more years, are only referred to the program if they deliberately avoid their commitment to find work. Under changes announced today, however, people will be automatically placed in the full time work for the dole program once they have completed two rounds of an intensive job seeking workshop and still have not found work. Workforce Participation Minister Sharman Stone said 80,000 people classified as long-term unemployed in the current labour market is unacceptable. "Early data shows 30 per cent of job seekers who do full time work for the dole either go on to a part-time job or leave income support completely, compared to only 14 per cent of similar job seekers who did not do full time work for the dole,'' Dr Stone said in a statement. "With a 33-year low unemployment rate of 4.2 per cent and almost 310,000 jobs created in the last year alone, there has never been a better time for the long-term unemployed to break the cycle of welfare dependency and get a job.'' "Therefore, full time work for the dole will give job seekers that valuable work experience that employers are looking for.'' Meanwhile, the Australian Greens today called on the federal government to cancel planned tax cuts for high income earners and use the money saved to increase the aged pension by $60 per fortnight.
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Sounds reasonable to me. The Bible says if you don’t work, you don’t eat. And more recently someone said, “Give a man a fish and he’s dependent on you forever. Give a man a fishing pole, and he becomes a fisherman.” I know I paraphrased, but I like it.
Some believe that sitting on their butts eating junk food and watching Oprah is, if not a career, surely a noble calling.
Would you crush their dreams?
o the humanity!! having to work in order to receive income!
>>>“Give a man a fish and he’s dependent on you forever. Give a man a fishing pole, and he becomes a fisherman.” <<<
I’ve always been in favor of adding a 3rd line. ;)
Give a man a fish, and feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and feed him for a lifetime.
Throw a man to the fish, and feed the fish for a week!
(and it makes for better fishing, too! ;) )
Ditto.
Good idea. Even FDR required some sweat equity in return for your welfare such as the CCC and so on. If you are abled bodied or relatively so, then there is a lot of things that can be done, even jobs that “Americans will not do.” If someone is old, sick or whatever, I have no objection on handing out welfare but there should be ways for the more able bodied to reduce their footprint on society and this is it.
“So, what kind of work will I have to do?”
“Well, Everett, you’re going to be sent out with a lorry load of trash. You’ll be spending five hours a day throwing trash off the lorry onto the side of the road.”
“That’s just crazy. The country will end up looking like a landfill.”
“Well, no, Everett. Inmates from the local prisons will be sent out on work details to pick up the trash.”
“This is just insane. The whole thing is a scam to keep prisoners busy.”
“No, Everett. It’s to keep *you* busy.”
They are not being FORCED to work, they will now simply be PAID to work. They don’t have to work if they don’t want to. They just won’t get any money if they don’t.
Those are the same rules my employer FORCES upon me...
LOL! From another yankeedame. :)
Gasp! Isn’t that slavery?
< /sarcasm >
Yeah and all the people I worked for did the same! Its a frggin conspiracy I tell ya! There should be a law...
It sounds like a great start.
Not to sound mean, but the jobs should be unpleasant enough and poorly paid enough to make sure there is a strong incentive to look for somthing better. This should not be an “inside track” to a cushy govenment job.
No, you give a man a fishing pole and pretty soon he has a bass boat, fly lures, sonar tracking and he just will not shut up about fish.
Creating Australian workers for jobs that illegal immigrants won’t have to do because Australians won’t do them.
They did, but you know they had no idea how many were out of work and needed a job. Most of those on CCC and other FedGov makework actually wanted to work. Somewhat different situation.
LOL! So that’s the way it works! :o)
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