A. With over 400,000 immigrants and visa holders every year the competition for the scant few jobs left is cutthroat. Employers can get away with murder and they do.

B. Every meaningful job in this nation except being BOSS has been offshored because that is better for the bottom line. That is the fault of free market e-goonomics(FME). The only government culpability is in allowing FME to continue beyond its used by date. The whole Keating model of Deregulation will eventually have to be dismantled as population sizes grow beyond resource capacities wherein deathly COMPETITON for resources renders FME nothing but a straw man for global economic fraud and $Dollar printing THEFT of scarce, once in a lifetime, irreplaceable resources. All while PRETENDING they are to be found somewhere new in a free market nano-second.

To blame job seekers in the context of this problematic global meltdown is like blaming gremlins for your car overheating when YOU forgot to Top up the oil!

When the $hit hits the fan (and believe me thats SOON) Rich leeches' greatest asset will be the good-will of the silent majority of Job Seekers on the dole.

Remember the French Revolution

& cherchez les femmes sans enfants!

What the hell ? sensible contributors will no longer bother. In the commentary section, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.

VG,

What the hell?

You are just a local so are redundant. Don't comment from now on!

We will offshore comments on Australia's future!

It is cheaper and better quality comments always come from better quality OS people anyway.

PS We'll pay you the dole with all the other losers.

Julia Gillard

PMT (Prime Minister Terranullis)

And another thing,

We intend to put all the public servants who handle the dole ON THE DOLE

After we first offshore the whole social services & centrelink package to Indian telecall centres.

That way when payments go amiss me and my government are immune to criticism. ITS no longer a government portfolio - ITS A PRIVATE CONTRACT!

POLITICAL IMMUNITY!

Julia Gillard

PMT

Put me in charge of Centrelink payments. I'd get rid of cash payments and provide vouchers for bags of rice and beans, blocks of cheese, basic sanitary items and all the powdered milk you can use.

If you want steak, burgers, junk food, get a job.

Put me in charge of Medicare. The first thing I'd do is to get women to have birth control implants. Then, we'll test recipients for drugs, alcohol, and nicotine. If you want to reproduce, use drugs, drink alcohol or smoke, get a job.

Put me in charge of government housing. Ever live in military barracks? You will maintain our property in a clean and good state of repair. Your "home" will be subject to inspections anytime and possessions will be inventoried. If you want a plasma TV or Xbox 360, get a job and your own place.

Put me in charge of compulsory job search. You will either search for employment each week no matter what the job or you will report for community work. This may be clearing the roadways and open spaces of rubbish, painting and repairing public housing, whatever we find for you. We will sell your 22 inch rims and low profile tires and your dooff dooff stereo and speakers and put that money toward the “common good.”

Before you write that I've violated someone's rights, realise that all of the above is voluntary. If you want our hard earned cash and housing assistance, accept these rules.

Before you say that this would be "demeaning" and ruin someones "self esteem," consider that it wasn't that long ago that taking someone else's money for doing absolutely nothing was demeaning and lowered self esteem.

If we are expected to pay for other people's mistakes we should at least attempt to make them learn from their bad choices. The current system rewards those for continuing to make bad choices.

While you are on Centrelink income you no longer have the right to VOTE! For you to vote would be a conflict of interest. If you want to vote, then get a job.

I'm with Geoff - rewards should be earned.

Cheryl, What have you got against the over-55's? Which, I assume, could include many who would have been gainfully employed for 30 years and more? It's not so easy getting a job when you over 50, and it's painful when all your past efforts and contributions count for nothing.

Of course, some expect the older generation never to be a burden, and to take any old demeaning job, while of course leaving all the juicy jobs for the young - although the olds have already 'paid their dues' so to speak, often in situations the new generation could not even imagine, let alone endure. Oh, to be young and full of vinegar and high ideals, but let's not forget that respect has to be earned.