The dole payment

Apparently the reason why our Government won't consider raising the dole is because it uses the low level of dole payment to put pressure on recently unemployed people to accept low paying and menial jobs.

Their plan is to ensure the dole is not attractive - by comparison with the minimum wage.

So if you have lost a real job that was paying a real salary then our Government want you to take a minimum wage job - rather than accept the dole and wait for another real job to come along.

I suspect this is because they know that real jobs are now few and far between.

So all you science graduates can now look forward to driving a taxi - or serving people in order to feed and house your families.  Good luck with that then.

The net effect is that pretty soon we will become a nation of minimum wage workers.  But even that is too much for big business.

For your reference the Australian minimum wage is $15.96 /hour.  The US minimum wage is $7.25 /hour.  That comparison tells you a little about the agenda of our Government.

They are furiously trying to reduce Australian labour costs - because their puppet masters in Washington won't tolerate Australian workers being paid so much ;-)

These techniques were first used by the Howard Government to demonstrate its *superior* economic manangement.  And we all know what that resulted in.

Now Gillard and Co. - an actual Labor Government - has adopted a similar plan.  Clearly they have given up looking out for Australian workers.

Oh and this scam also serves to artificially reduce the *official* unemployment rate.  Isn't that convenient?

I am just so over these turkeys.