Here are a few of the things the government did this month instead of creating jobs for the 414,300 people unemployed at the moment: - Set up Garda checkpoints in industrial estates to tackle the 0.1% of the Welfare budget that goes into fraud. - Launch a media campaign about the problems of welfare culture, despite there being 26 applicants on average for every job that comes up. Particular highlight: telling young people that theyd be better off not hanging around watching flatscreen TVs all day. - Cut airline travel tax and, through the Department of Social Protection, send letters to young unemployed people advertising job vacancies in Canada, America and New Zealand. - Cut €44 per week from Jobseekers Allowance for people between the ages of 21-26. Thats over €2,000 per year. They also extended the €100 per week rate to the age of 24. - Create a Better Off in Work campaign which will mail out letters to those 400,000 people telling them HOW MUCH BETTER THEIR LIVES WOULD BE IN WORK. Insulting the unemployed: Fine Gael and Labours answer to mass unemployment.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:38:33 +0000