Pill ,the Govt needs to more flexible with genuine cases who are working a few hrs a week.Many don't have the motivation do do so because they get punished for trying.The DSP has just become a repository for the long term unemployed.The pool of money then becomes less for the disabled.The Europeans have been warned about their version of DSP in terms of looming economic failure.An economy is not a bottomless pit.People will just sell up and move elsewhere.Some one has to do the mundane chores of putting food on your table ,provide your shelter etc.You may not realise it ,but"The Nanny State"will destroy us all.

"We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth. There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
Bonaventura Durutti

The current system isn’t working- stress and overwork affect more and more people while others are flung on the dole; we live in a world of plentiful resources yet millions starve; some people make vast fortunes just because they own companies, land, property or natural resources, but those of us who create the wealth, work the land and build the properties are left struggling to pay for the natural resources; politicians tell us there’s no money- not for wages, benefits or local amenities, but there’s always plenty for war; both locally and globally the gap between the richest and the poorest sections of society has never been so great and for all humanities technological advances we spend more time working than people did 40 years ago; instead of a war on poverty they’ve got a war on ‘benefit fraud’, a war on drugs and a ‘war on terror’ and the same institutions that create war, poverty and environmental destruction stigmatise, imprison and deport the resultant refugees.

I don’t think these things are inevitable or coincidental, I think they are related to capitalism- an economic system defined by wage slavery and the accumulation of profit out of other people’s work. So we should support all workers against their bosses in demanding higher wages and better conditions. We try to intervene practically to support workers engaged in disputes and are also active in our own workplaces and communities.

But it’s not just a question of trying to struggle by in a world of exploitation and oppression; we look to a future where workers control production and society in their own interests.

It's amazing some lowlifes wish to blame the disabled for things out of their control to increase profits for the rich!

EAT YOUR TURKEY
GLUT YOU WINE
YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED
YOU BOURGEOIS SWINE

Bring it on!

Pill,go and live in North Korea for a while or can't you extricate yourself from the nipple of capitalist's abundance.Go and experience the alternative and then I will listen to your bilious,ill informed diatribe.
We live in a very socialist state and sure the capitalist's system is far from perfect,the trouble is that like a spoilt child , you don't realise how hard your parents are working to feed you.I'm doing things for you that I refuse to do for my own children.My son said recently that he will go on the dole when he leaves school.Well I said that I will go to social security and tell them to refuse your payments.Yes you are right ,it is a "sick society" that allows it's citizens to waste away on social security benefits.

[Deleted for flaming] Read the facts about DSP in Mr McCallums article above, it's what this forum is about. Then REALISE 75% of the population do not agree with your views. Your out of touch just like the pack of lying rodents in Canberra.

We live in a "socialist state"? After nearly 9 years of a Howard Government? I had no idea we were being run by socialists. Really, the longer Howard and his supporters blame bad economic and social policy on everyone else but themselves, the more ridiculous it gets as years go by. It's as silly as the North Korean regime blaming their woes on Japanese occupation.

Howard etc happily take the credit for economic growth in this country but apparently when things go wrong such as a social security budget blow out it's someone elses fault. That's why some of us never believe what the government says. We've been burnt too many times.

Btw, NSW overall is going fine economically. Egan has produced mostly surpluses during his time as treasurer. And if anyone accuses Egan of being a socialist, they should undergo 3 years at least of closely supervised political education.

Pill,McCallums article uses statistics to colour the world as he wants you to see it.There are 650,000 on DSP,250,000 single parents , 540,000 on the dole, one in six adults of working age is supported by the tax payer.There are poor people in private enterprise working long hours,paying taxes,wanting to spend more time with their families ,and wondering if it is all worth it.
Not if,but when the system collapses,those who are disabled will beg in the streets.The rorters are taking money from those who are genuinely disabled.