Good Morning!

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.

Nice to hear from you @Shaz51. Sorry to hear about your travails. I hope all goes well. Hope that you're doing well too.

hello @Emelia8 😍

how are you today my @Historylover 😍

@Shaz51 ♥

@Judi9877 😊

..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

Keeping myself occupied and out of trouble as much as possible, @Shaz51. Hope you're doing well.😊

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

a cousin of a friend had very rich parents, he never worked , was in 60s when I met him, he had friends, mostly poor/disabled/met at pub .. he ran marathons for years , was what used to be called 'eccentric' I guess. He had big house with yard full of car wrecks in what became very good area, inherited a massive block in best area of adelaide, walkerville tce, sold it for $500k 20 years ago, be worth $5mil now , he may have been on dole but never would have told anyone @Former-Member so he had a useful life in some respects, just didnt work. apparenlty thats not uncommon for people who are born rich. Found out at fathers funeral that his boss years ago was bankrolled by rich aunts in Adelaide who his father had hocked their farms to .. they charged him rent, til he eventually bought things back