Dear o sung wu,

Good post.

I came on here to make much the same point you have just done.

If the Federal Coalition brought this in it would be just another example of Abbott cost shifting to the states.

Remove all means of support to someone down on their luck and using illicit drugs and these will be the folk crawling through your back window just to survive.

It might save Hockey a few bucks in the budget but it will cost the states heaping in extra policing and incarceration costs. Bad economics if anything else.

Rehctub - "Suze, easy solution, stop paying them cash. Problem all but gone!"

Rehctub , Bad idea! Stop paying them cash and they will take their cash and/or goods any criminal way they can get it!
Can you not see that?

Do you not think all the Governments before now have considered this idea?
See Steele Redux's post above.

Do you think we can afford to have our jails bursting at the seams with all the new criminals this would produce?
It would be cheaper to pay them unemployment benefits and have them work for the dole in some capacity at least.

As for your precious Abbott having the 'balls" to suggest such an idea, just remember these were the same balls from which sprung the wasteful ideas for the expensive paid parental leave scheme, the marriage counseling debacle, and the ludicrous amount of money for 'chaplains' to continue 'counseling ' our kids in public schools!

Nhoj

I was once told sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, and you use it to perfection.

Hopefully you will move forward - drop the sarcasm and rudeness, and then maybe people will listen to you what you want to say. As it stands, you really don't appear to have anything constructive to offer, as all your efforts are being expended in trying to get under people's skin with sarcasm and lots of ha ha ha's.

I once knew a heavy pot user who used the ha ha's every time he smoked a few joints.

Small wonder I invariably skip your posts.

Dearest worldwatcher,

As you "invariably skip" my posts, how do you know I use sarcasm? GOTCHA. Nice try. Ha ha ha. I know you "really" read every single word I write. Enjoy.

Love and hugs,

Nhoj. xoxoxox

Nhoj is probably the biggest welfare bludger on the site.

His only weapon is feeble insults, and his childish prose and poor reasoning indicates that he is unlikely to pass any tests either intellectual or drug and feels threatened at having to face any.

Nhoj, here is a challenge: Try for once to act like a grown up and post at least one post that shows a reasoned position.

So far all you have done is put the whinger in left whinger.

Shadow minister,
i think even the morons are rejecting Nhoj.