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Re: Unemployed could be forced to do compulsory manual labour
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Originally Posted by Gary L
Those that have no choice but to go out and work 30 hours a week for a month for their benefits?
there's 2 sides to this.
I hate benefit claimants
well you'll be pleased to know that we are introducing a 30 day compulsory work scheme where these dossers will have to do free labour they'll get no more of your hard earned taxes. the message is a hard one.
I think benefit claimants are being exploited by this
well I can assure you that that is not the intention. we want to give these people something to do with their time. we know how depressed they may be from not being able to find a job in this depressing recession. so this will pick their spirits up tremendously.
LA?
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Life is rarely that binary/black & white, Gary.
We need (imho) to be careful about these sorts of things, because whilst the intention may be honourable, it soon descends into "work-shy" versus "hard-working tax-payers", and as we know from this forum, whilst it is easy (and often makes us feel better) to pigeonhole people into simplistic categories, we seem to end up putting applying labels to large numbers of people, when the labels actually apply to small numbers of abusers of the systems.
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