MH> 40% of those are pounding the pavements, harrassing business
MH> people in their fruitless search for work, very few get lucky and
MH> find one of the govt 'make work' schemes, even less find real jobs.
BG>                                                ^^^^
BG> Fewer.  Less is quite funny, but grammatically incorrect.  :)

MH> Well!!!! I did admit I was a high school drop out.

Maybe its time you dropped back in and improved your employment prospects Mick.

MH> If I could have passed English I would have been able to graduate
MH> and then been railroaded by my parents into Economics at University.
MH> Then I would really been a burden on society, getting an extravigant
MH> salary from then government and contributing nothing to anyone,

Or you could have put a bit more effort into your school
work, went on to study something at Uni which would have
improved your employment prospects Mick. Plenty did.

MH> instead I was a mechanic until I ruined my back.

Ah. One of my neighbors has never worked in the twenty
years that I have known him. He claims a similar problem.
Odd that he didnt appear to have any difficulty shifting the
concrete down the back from redimix truck in wheel barrows.

His wife also purportedly has some similar reason she cant work too.

MH> I then worked as a mainframe computer operator for several years.

Lots of mainframes in Batemans Bay are there Mick ?

MH> Now I spend my time, between crippling panic attacks,

Handy problem to have that one, they cant just Xray you to
see if you have a problem or anything. VERY easy to chuck a
wobbly whenever there is any need to put on a good show too.

That fellow I know who has never worked in twenty years, ever since
he left school, who brags about only ever having paid $1.25 income
tax in his entire life is planning to move over to that system.
I think he claims to be a psychopath or something. Corse he
is too, but thats neither here nor there, plenty of those work.

MH> running this board and providing user
MH> support on behalf of two User Groups I belong to.

Soorree, we dont choose to pay people like you to do that stuff.
Probably because lots of people would like to have the guvmint
pay them to do that too or something. Soorree, we cant afford it.

MH> I have "nickel'n'dimed" my system up from an XT to a 486dx2/66
MH> with 12 mb RAM 850 and 1600 mb hds, 28k8 & 14k4 modems on the
MH> generosity of family, friends and gifts from people I have helped.

You are perfectly welcome to do that Mick.
You aint welcome to bludge on welfare tho.

MH> I even pick up a little cash on occaision, but never
MH> enough to have it affect my dole or later my pension.

How careful of you Mick.

MH> At one stage I did manage to get two months of contract
MH> work, only to lose it and get blacklisted when hit hard
MH> by Glandular fever at the end of the first month.

How convenient Mick.

MH> I even tried to set up doing PC support as a business but failing
MH> health put an end to that as I became too undependable and slow.

How convenient Mick.

MH> So all the David Drummonds and Rod Speeds can
MH> think what they want, my conscience is clear.

Yes, some people have had a social conscience bypass or were
born without one Mick. Thats why we police welfare cheats.

MH> reply here ot Phone me on 044-72-9812 noon to midnite.

Oops, wots this Mick ?  You QUITE sure that you aint too thrilled
about the prospect of getting out of bed before lunchtime to go to work ?

You QUITE sure you havent just decided that it might be a FINE
idea to run a BBS and loll there on welfare forever, never having
get up before midday, playing with your BBS till midnight, suits you
a HELL of a lot better than getting off your bum and finding a job ?

Soorree, WE aint too thrilled about paying for
THAT sort of lifestyle that you find you prefer Mick.

Be fascinating to see how long it takes for the
new crew to pull the plug on people like you Mick.
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