Welfare Reform suggestions

[donnashuggy]

Who should they target first? Or last?

[lakeland27]

they complain regularly.

[izabsmiling]

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@poddster wrote:

So Alex you have no problem with people inflicting a hard time on themselves and others around them and you footing the bill.

I have no issue with people who addict themselves, that is their choice. However I do have a problem with me being the one who is partly footing cost of their habit.

You say that for addicts their only way out of whatever the problems are is to be an addict, I say B/S, there are and were many many people who rose above their problems with determination and sheer guts by applying their effort against all odds.

No one can say that they had no idea of what the result of taking addictive substances would be,

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and many needed rehab and post rehab support in order  to do so....

    Drug addicts die waiting for treatment

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/drug-addicts-die-waiting-for-treatment-20120319-1vfxu.html

[izabsmiling]

change the attitude of those who are well and not in need and the needy may get the help they need...

but then what and who would those who aren't in need have to gripe about if that happened ?

I had an accident and knocked myself out over the weekend...self inflicted and stupid...the hospital treated the damage I did myself none the less

[icyfroth]

I heard on the news this morning ppl who decline a job they live further than 90 mins away from will no longer be eligible for the dole.

There's a start.

[izabsmiling]

that's the start of what ?

not everyone lives in the city where there is 24/7 transport from and to all places..

[izabsmiling]

Welfare for the wealthy and big business at the expense of Australia's genuinely needy ..brilliant ...NOT

[icyfroth]

Plenty of ppl travel to work in Sydney from regional areas like the Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Wollongong, each around 2 hours travel one way.

[izabsmiling]

there isn't transport in some places ...and not everyone can or can afford to drive .If I had to drive that far and I was a single parent I'd need childcare early in the morning ...that too is in short supply and  if there are places may be of llimited hours in regional areas.

anyone tried getting a fruit picking job in Vic ?

workers flown in from OS and paid next to nothing take many of them now.

remove the tape as our PM wants and that may happen more and more 

[icyfroth]

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@izabsmiling wrote:

there isn't transport in some places ...and not everyone can or can afford to drive .If I had to drive that far and I was a single parent I'd need childcare early in the morning ...that too is in short supply and  if there are places may be of llimited hours in regional areas.

anyone tried getting a fruit picking job in Vic ?

workers flown in from OS and paid next to nothing take many of them now.

remove the tape as our PM wants and that may happen more and more 

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Well I'm sure they'll take those difficulties into consideration for assessment.

[izabsmiling]

I'm not..I am going to repeat your words of wisdom.

Wake up Australia !