The Dole

 

I read  this with a bit of a smile on my face.

The Newshub slime are attempting to do a "How hard are we done by" theme.

"But in terms of impact as well, you know, obviously I'm not paying tax to anyone and then we've just pulled back all of the expenses."

That includes things like using the local lawnmowing and hairdressing services - as opposed to the fashionable, expensive outfits?

A now one income, one child (based on the slime-quoted comment) family genuinely hard done by. Get off the grass!

But back to my point: The story is about ex-civil servants not being able to find a job.

I suggest this means they, in fact, have no marketable skills. To be blunt they are useless to the workplace.

It states, beyond suggestion, that the "civil service" that used to employ them was not hiring workers but hiding the unemployed, the unemployable.

Their grossly inflated pay packets were not remuneration at all, they were dole payments dishonestly disguised as salaries.

The current Government is (very slowly) starting to recognise this. I hope they keep doing so, placing at least 40% of the current taxpayer funded lot on the proper, considerably cheaper, dole queue where they belong.

In time these unemployable layabouts may realise that to achieve anything they will actually need to get a proper job, to work for their living.

THAT will be education in it's finest moment!