JW> Geez you lot.  Thanks for making me and all the other honestly unemployed 
JW> people feel bloody guilty.  I have been on the dole now for several months 
JW> because the company I used to work for decided it could do without its 
JW> technical arm.  Am I a parasite even though I have put in an average 10 
JW> applications a week since my redundancy?

No, it's crap.  I wonder how many of them would like to trade places
with you.  I wonder how many of them would like to offer you a job
instead of putting you down?  I wonder how many of them acknowledge
that the taxes you paid whilst working go towards paying for your
dole now?  I wonder how many acknowledge that the whole point of the
dole is so that we can run an efficient capitalist society (as 
opposed to full-employment communism), and the dole is there as a
safety net, so that no-one feels a need to stuff around with a
working, capitalist system, which means better lifestyles for everyone,
certainly for those with work anyway.  The people on the dole also
get a good lifestyle, if you put a value on your value free time.

JW> Take a look around people.  There are only so many jobs available.

Yeah, and the worst thought is you know that some people in jobs are
sitting on their bums doing absolutely nothing, and for every year
they sit their, they clock up a year of experience on their resume,
whilst what do you get to clock up?  A year unemployment?  No thanks.
On the other hand, there are a lot of non-genuinely-unemployed on 
the dole too, and they are simply criminals.  BFN.  Paul.
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