06-03-2023 03:40 PM
06-03-2023 03:40 PM
It was so improbable @Shaz51 I worked when I could but after that my body and mind just caved in. My ill health just didn't support it anymore. But theres such a public economic burden with welfare, I'm aware of that
06-03-2023 03:42 PM
06-03-2023 03:42 PM
Yes it is @TAB because there are people out there trying to rort the system and unfortunately it bears heavily on the most deserving who cannot work.
06-03-2023 03:43 PM
06-03-2023 03:43 PM
Nice to hear from you @Shaz51. Sorry to hear about your travails. I hope all goes well. Hope that you're doing well too.
06-03-2023 03:43 PM
06-03-2023 03:44 PM
06-03-2023 03:45 PM
06-03-2023 03:47 PM
06-03-2023 03:51 PM
06-03-2023 03:51 PM
..yeah well, all for the sake of a few hundred extra dollars they get over the dole @Former-Member I remember hearing stories, some firsthand of the dole in early 1970s in australia also england. They would just give it to you no questions asked as there was near enough to full employment, and yes, full employment the way they measure it these days would have been 10% back then ha ha
Now they are happy to spend prob 5 times what they pay you on trying to trip you up and make you homeless, so long as most of the money goes to government employees and contractors Then they say .. look at how much this costs ! blaming their waste on people they are making a living off. Just a sick system
06-03-2023 04:41 PM
06-03-2023 04:41 PM
Keeping myself occupied and out of trouble as much as possible, @Shaz51. Hope you're doing well.😊
06-03-2023 05:23 PM
06-03-2023 05:23 PM
When I studied at TAFE there was someone, a student in their 50's who had never worked a day in his life. He was a Libertarian and openly stated he refused to work. He lived in a shack at the back of his mothers in the hills with no known incapacities I was aware of. He just got through life on welfare. I often wondered about him especially with the newer welfare measures trying to weed people out. He would have been in a very desperate situation I would imagine when things started to change with computer checking. I often wondered what came of him @TAB. And you are so right about social security, its parasiticism in regards to employment agencies but its targets are not obvious
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