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.
o the humanity!! having to work in order to receive income!
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...
Gasp! Isn’t that slavery?
< /sarcasm >
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.
Creating Australian workers for jobs that illegal immigrants won’t have to do because Australians won’t do them.