I see on social media so frequently that kicking people off welfare is a way to save the government millions. My question is what do they do once their welfare is terminated?
“We are looking at close to 1.8 million insufficiently employed people and about 150,000 current job vacancies.”
Where are the jobs that are needed to support them? What are you supposed to do when your welfare is cancelled and there aren’t enough jobs to go round? Live in your car if you’re lucky enough to still have one? Beg for food from friends, access food charities that have also had funding cuts and are no longer able to supply the burgeoning demand, or scavenge in bins to feed yourself and your family?
I can’t remember where I saw the statistic, but I saw somewhere that the number of ‘career bludgers’ is quite minuscule and far outweighed by the people who want to work but due to circumstances (quite often beyond their control) are unable to find a job, any job. Why? Because there aren’t enough jobs.
I’m proud that the tax dollars I contribute go to a welfare system that assists us in times of need and minimises the divide. I’m not on welfare at the moment, but what if one day I need it? What if you or your children need it? And what if there is nothing left. What do you do then? How do you tell your baby that you have no food for dinner tonight, as you listen to their tummy rumble and their cries of hunger? That mummy or daddy can’t get a job and we have to move out of our home.
Please be mindful of this as the welfare debate continues. Educate yourself with something other than the Murdoch media. Speak up to your members when you see something that’s unfair.
Please have a heart and don’t judge. You don’t know how or why people are in the situation they’re in, what lead them there and what they’re doing to get themselves out. Sometimes it’s just not that easy.
http://www.abc.net.au/…/2015-0…/sheen-welfare-review/6261862