Russell, at 00:36 on Apr 30 1996, you wrote ...

AM>>> Or have you NEVER been UNEMPLOYED?

DD>> Twice since 1980.

AM>>> Get your head out of the sand and LOOK at the REAL WORLD!
AM>>> You would be better spending your efforts to curb those 
AM>>> who ILLEGALLY obtain benifits, rather than those who have 
AM>>> a legit reason.

DD>> My point in this thread is that the government of the day 
DD>> affords the unemployed people funds, supplied by the 
DD>> taxpayer, for the reason of surviving on whilst they seek 
DD>> work.

RS> Agreed.

DD>> These funds were never intended to be used for such 
DD>> luxuries as running a BBS.

RS> I certainly wouldn't be worrying about a BBS if I was 
RS> unemployed - there are more important things to spend money 
RS> on, IN MY OPINION.

RS> However... (you just *knew* this bit was coming, didn't you? 
RS> 8^))

RS> If someone wanted to spend their money a certain way, who 
RS> should decide HOW they spend it?  You seem to think that you 
RS> should, David. 

When I am one of the suckers paying into the fund doled out to these
bludgers to assist them live, I think that does give me some say.

RS> Regardless of the morality of this, there is 
RS> simply no mechanism in place to determine how the unemployed 
RS> should/not spend their money. 

There is! Cut the dole out.  Give these people community work and pay them
for that work.  Then they are earning the money, they can do with it as
they please.

Of course another option is food stamps.  Don't pay them in money, feed them!

RS> I believe that if they want to 
RS> go without some things in order to run a BBS or whatever, 
RS> then that is their prerogative. Not mine, not yours, theirs.

What about the git complaining about how his dole payments don't go far
when he has 4 kids to feed, bills to pay and a BBS to run.

DD>> Jobs DO exist in the REAL WORLD.  Quite a proportion of the 
DD>> unemployed simply aren't interested in a job - it's just all 
DD>> to bloody hard.

RS> 'Quite a proportion'???

RS> Obviously. Sir Humphrey Appleby could not have put it 
RS> better. 8^)

What do you wnat be to do, state a finite number?

David
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