the politics of envy and class will ensure that many self entitled people will have no desire to work. Many who have graduated with totally useless degrees see it beneath them to make coffee or sweep floors.

Having a job, particularly a formal money-earning job, ought to be a lifestyle choice, not a necessity.

Let those who have a job be rewarded for it and enjoy comforts and luxuries, while those who do not, live frugally, but let it not be a case of "If I have no job, then how shall I feed my baby? How shall I keep the winter's cold away when I'm sick?". Having a formal paying job can also be taken up periodically over one's life while financial rewards can then be saved and smoothed.

So full employment is not a good thing - it encourages useless jobs, in many cases even harmful ones; it encourages government to further complicate our lives; and it pressures workers into doing wrong and immoral things on their boss's orders.

Imagine how good it will be when people only do such work that they believe in to be good, that they like, that they feel that it is helping others rather than harming or trying to tempt and rob others!

Let's face it, a large portion of the good-old, straight-forward productive work was taken by machines and so far we see no end to this trend. When those machines were designed, the objective in mind was to simplify life, rather than complicate it, to make us happier rather than miserable, to free our time for higher pursuits rather than to enslave us to more material goods and entertainment.

Look I find it hugely funny the old chestnut about socialism and its evil,the policy the current government had at its foundation, and every government on both side sence, have been in part SOCIALIST, and we would not have it any other way health education welfare all look very much like socialism when compared to America,my plan/idea was in part to be funded by welfare, that in some cases no longer being needed, if my view work of benefit to the community, is mistaken for some thing else we are indeed a weird mob.hundreds of jobs could be left to those in these jobs, just think, litter clean ups every day, real fines real recycling, all fines could go to fund the whole idea

Aidan.
Nth Qld indigenous communities.

Still wanting to shut that gate there Belly. Sorry mate, the horse has bolted old mate. It's a new world, one where the gap between the haves and have nots just keeps getting wider. There is no real middle any more, either you're well off, or you struggle.
What a shame it has come to this.

Belly,

"First let the truth rebut the view Labor never does any thing,..."

Labor does do things, especially for its mates.

There was once a thriving maritime industry at Cockatoo Dockyard, on Sydney Harbour.

Unfortunately the Island was owned by the Commonwealth Government and they needed a boost desperately for their bright haired boy, Kim Beasley.
They terminated the lease on the Dockyard and transferred the submarine refits to WA, into Kim's electorate; 'Fatso' Beasley got the kudos for new jobs and the consequent votes.

Meanwhile, the 3,800 or so workers at Cockatoo Island Dockyard lost their jobs. Many of the older employees never worked at their trades again, highly skilled Aussie workers thrown on the scrap heap by the Party of the working class.