"what "strange" pseudonyms", Crackcup...

and one for a container of a free-base crystalline tropane alkaloid isn't?

Dear Hasbeen,

<<I am a great believer in people doing their own thing, in their own way, provided they pay their own way.>>

And so am I, but this discussion is merely about subsistence, not yachting. Living on meagre welfare-money is not a joy!

Dear Individual,

<<If I had my way you would not be let anywhere near a polling booth for a long time yet.>>

Thank you, indeed I am a postal voter, but if you don't want me to vote, then suit yourself and you'll get Julia again.

Dear Crackcup,

Thank you for your clarification: I am very glad that you have no intentions of whipping or jailing those who do not work into consent.

<<I suspect from your names that you could possibly be two of the many "financial opportunists" that have "invaded" this country in recent times?>>

FYI, since I invaded this country, Australia received hefty taxes from me, money which comes from overseas, while I do not require any of its services except for the right to live in this continent. I am glad when my tax-money goes to feed the financially-poor, preventing slavery, not so when it goes to feed the government, its public-service and a myriad of silly and unjustified projects.

All,

In nature and early human development, one always had to work for a living, but one didn't always need to be formally 'employed' and earn money in order to live.

Current civilisation, involuntarily imposed conditions and legislation that no longer allow one to survive without money. Having done so, it ought to compensate individuals with the only remaining means of subsistence - money, so that individuals can have a similar standard of living as they had in pre-civilisation nature.

We ALL deserve such compensation, those who work and those who don't, those who are healthy and those who are ill, those who are young and those who are old: compensation should be unconditional!

In practice, this compensation becomes a negative-income-tax, where each person receives a fixed sum that is offset against a fixed-rate tax applied from the first dollar of income.

Wm Trevor and All:

I use that pseudonym "Crackcup" simply because I was unable to continue my original pseudonym "Cuphandle" when I changed ISP`s from
Dial-up to Satellite connection, but then again most posters will have at some time in the past, thrust and parried with me during some of the more enlightening Threads!

I can assure you that I am totally opposed to hard drugs of all kind. Note: I stated hard drugs, because I do not mind a Rum and Coke or a nice cold Beer on a hot day, and I can hear the opportunists grabbing at my use of "drugs" ie: Alcohol, but I am NOT perfect either, but I have spent most of my life working and paying the appropriate taxes, as required by the system!

I do harbour very strong political beliefs, and I am appalled at the direction that this Federal Labor Government is taking this country. I am further amazed that in light of the National Deficit created by this Government in it`s feeble attempts to buy votes from the gullible recipients, and the outrageous political fiasco displayed by this Prime Minister in the recent Rudd/Gillard circus performance, that our illustrious Governor General failed to recognise the dire financial situation created by Labor and failed to take the most appropriate step by immediately announcing a lack of confidence, calling an immediate Election, and placing the country in the hands of a Caretaker Government!....Could it be that she has a conflict of interest at heart?

You people talk so much garbage.

My wife is a councilor with a job network charity. Not a business, but a charity. For the last 2 years she has handled the long term unemployed.

A bit of a bleeding heart, she used to lecture me that it isn't the unemployeds fault. People who are homeless are just unlucky. She still tries desperately to help her clients, but is now admitting that about 50% of them will do anything to avoid getting a job.

Even worse are those who get a job, but don't turn up after a few days. This spoils her credibility with prospective employers, who will only take on long term unemployed, after too many no hopers, unless recommended. Her recommendation goes a long way but can't afford to be wrong too often.

For a long time she resisted breaching those bludgers who weren't prepared to work, but that is changing. Now when they stuff up intentionally, & thus make it harder for her to help the genuine cases, they are breached. No longer getting away with it, the bludgers don't like having their bluff called.

The bludger count in that office runs at about 12% of those referred from centrelink. Thanks bleeding hearts.

If you want to fix it, Hasbeen. You need to change the whole system and give kids an incentive to go to work. Working 38 hours a week just to meet their bills is not going to work. People need rewards and they are few and far between for a lot in this country now. Between bureaucracy, regulations, laws, the nanny state, and increasing costs, a lot have given up. Not everyone wants to sit around some trendy cafe drinking lattes and playing on ICraps all weekend. But in a lot of places that's all that's available to them. Anything else is either banned or financially out of reach!

The nannies, bureaucrats and socialists have put a huge dampener on everything. What you're seeing is blow back.

A good place to start would be to hang all the lawyers with the entrails of all the insurers and radical greenies.

"The nannies, bureaucrats and socialists have put a huge dampener on everything. What you're seeing is blow back.

A good place to start would be to hang all the lawyers with the entrails of all the insurers and radical greenies.

Rawmustard, capitalism has caused unemployment to rise with poverty and homelessness at a all new record level right around the world, and you know it. A socialism democracy system will take the power away from these greedy types bloated with corruption and dishonesty.

Socialists generally argue that capitalism concentrates power and wealth within a small segment of society that controls the means of production and derives its wealth through a system of exploitation. This creates a stratified society based on unequal social relations that fails to provide equal opportunities for every individual to maximize their potential, and does not utilize available technology and resources to their maximum potential in the interests of the public.
Christofias won a crucial presidential runoff in Cyprus, defeating his conservative rival with a majority of 53%. In Greece, in the general election on 17 June 2012, Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) won 26.89% of the votes and became the second largest party in parliament.
In Ireland, in the 2009 European election, Joe Higgins of the Socialist Party took one of three seats in the capital Dublin European constituency. In Denmark, the Socialist People's Party (SF or Socialist Party for short) more than doubled its parliamentary representation to 23 seats from 11, making it the fourth largest party. In 2011, the socialist parties of Social Democrats, Socialist People's Party and the Danish Social Liberal Party formed government, after a slight victory over the liberal parties. They were led by Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and had the Red-Green Alliance as a supporting party.

Rawmustard, the lates brain wave of thought by some, is to add more people just to keep the cash-register,s ringing, however this plan will just fold in on its self with more unployed as the by-product.

Planet3