Incentives? Why do they need incentives to earn a living for a change?

Pete's Points
Giving the unemployed incentives to move to where the work is at a time when there is record full employment is, in my view, a waste of MY money.

As a tax payer I am offended that there are still people around who can continue to receive support from the government when employers are complaining that there are not enough workers available to fill the positions that are simply going begging and when they are advocating lowering barriers to immigration to enable unskilled workers to come to this country to take on the jobs that our own people seem to find inadequate to meet their delicate needs.

I am happy to support people when there is no work available. I am happy to support people to train themselves to a level where they can do the work which is available. However I am not prepared to support people to continue to live some form of indulgent lifestyle in which their delicate sensibilities may be upset if they actually have to make a little effort to get themselves skilled up for the work available and actually move to where the work is.

I would support them by giving them the bus fare to get to the work place and say a week or a fortnight's rent once there, to ensure that they have somewhere to stay while they earn their first pay check and no more.

After that they can jolly well do what the rest of us have to do and make ends meet!

Anything else in this time of full employment is sheer overindulgence!

From the ABC

Jobless relocation offer 'not enough'

A federal backbencher has criticised his government's proposal to pay people to move to find work, saying the cash incentive is not enough.

Under the program the Government will pay up to $5,000 to help people move from areas of high unemployment, to places where workers are needed.