Well there is no doubt that there are a very small minority of people out there that spend their lives trying to rort the system and spend their life on unemployment benefits while the rest of us work.

You can not make people work, what you can do is make it their problem and not ours, let them exercise their rights and make a choice, but that choice has consequences. The consequences would be the loss of benefits.

Unemployment benefits are their for employees that need it, we now have the governments statistically rigged rate (now that is a whole other story) of 5.8%. That is pretty low really compared with the rest of the world. We pay our taxes for just such an event that we may need Government support. That is our right.

An abuse of this right is if we as employees knock back work or do not make every effort to get a job. I have found that jobs attract jobs, if you don;t have a job it is hard to find one, if you have one, you can generally have quite a few. So the technique is to get a job, not knock them back.
If you can;t find a job in 3 months you probably don;t have the skills to find one. If you can;t find a job in 6 months then you are not trying. At this point unemployment benefits cut in half. After 9 months they should be revoked totally. Only if you are working for 1 year after that does the clock start again, otherwise you go back to half benefits, or none at all.

We need to give people the tools and motivation to ensure that they are contributing to their own well being and upkeep.

There are so many benefits to being employed, on a personal and emotional level, we need to assist these people with their lives. Again you can;t help people that don;t want help, they have to help themselves. We can only give motivation and support.

The people that are found to be rorting the system, should be prosecuted. Garnishing their wages is a futile exercise, given that they may never earn anything. This leaves only 2 solutions, 1 imprisonment, 2 community services. I would much prefer that they pay back their illegal gains in 30% community service until the funds are returned. The 30% would be equivalent to 12 hours a week, based on a 40 hour week. If they do not perform the 12 hours a week community service then the only other choice would be to serve it in custody (weekend detention)

In summary:-
1. There are jobs there for those that really want them.
2. Unemployment benefits are there to be used, not abused.
3. Reduce and Cut benefits after 6/9 months of unemployment
4. Rorters payback money, do community service or weekend detention
5. Everyone has the right to make choices for them selves, you just have to be prepared to live with them.

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