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Aug. 27th, 2013 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeshyrI must opine about crazy election stupidity which I just heard on the radio ... you gotta love that crazy election "policy" stuff.
One of our pollies has unveiled a plan to pay ex-job-seekers severnal thousand dollars once they have kept a job for 12 months. When questioned, he said it was "a hand up, not a hand-out."
I'm thinking a "hand up" is something you give to people when they are most at need, so they can use it to help themselves. So giving money to job seekers specifically so they could buy good clothes for interviews for example would qualify as a "hand up", as would training opportunities.
But giving money to employed folks after they've been employed for 12 months or more ... That's not a "hand up", that's ... well it sounds like bribery, close enough. It's also assuming that jobseekers aren't actually trying 100% to get a job at the moment, which I find to be really rude...
Ahem. Rant over now. Elections might be the least-worst way of doing government that we've figured out so far but OMG they suck ...
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One of our pollies has unveiled a plan to pay ex-job-seekers severnal thousand dollars once they have kept a job for 12 months. When questioned, he said it was "a hand up, not a hand-out."
I'm thinking a "hand up" is something you give to people when they are most at need, so they can use it to help themselves. So giving money to job seekers specifically so they could buy good clothes for interviews for example would qualify as a "hand up", as would training opportunities.
But giving money to employed folks after they've been employed for 12 months or more ... That's not a "hand up", that's ... well it sounds like bribery, close enough. It's also assuming that jobseekers aren't actually trying 100% to get a job at the moment, which I find to be really rude...
Ahem. Rant over now. Elections might be the least-worst way of doing government that we've figured out so far but OMG they suck ...
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Well...
Date: 2013-08-27 09:19 am (UTC)Re: Well...
Date: 2013-08-27 09:28 am (UTC)Re: Well...
Date: 2013-08-27 09:48 am (UTC)The results are often hideous, but they do make sense out of a great many seemingly absurd behaviors.
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Date: 2013-08-27 09:33 am (UTC)ARRRRRGH. >_____