work for the dole

Originally posted by Justlookin ↑

I think work is an essential part of living a full life. I just disagree with the Government's position and firmly believe that people should be paid for the work they do.

Alberici and Abetz discussed the topic of Job Snobs last night on the Idiot Box.

From Lateline:

EMMA ALBERICI: What proportion of the unemployed are what you called today job snobs?

ERIC ABETZ: Look, there are clearly some job snobs around. I'm not going to put a figure on it, but we do need to encourage them, for their own sake, for their own benefit - and can I stress this, Emma? - for their own benefit, to get them off welfare, into employment. And I have had many an employer say to me they wish they could employ the locals, but they are reduced to employing backpackers for seasonal work and for other work on the basis that the locals simply don't want to do the work and they are somewhat too comfortable on welfare. With have to change that culture set in certain people's minds and we will seek to do that in a very sensitive, but firm way, because ultimately, it is for their benefit as well.

LINK->http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2014/s4055837.htm

Texas has one of the highest levels of job snobbery in the world, especially amongst their young it seems. (But Shhh! don't tell a Texan that because nobody messes with Texas LOL) Many of the "menial" jobs are taken up by illegal immigration because they are cheaper to employ. Australia doesn't need to worry about job snobbery being on the rise because the current 457 and working holiday visa schemes will be expanded like illegal immigration in America and ultimately work for the dole will be done by immigrants. The right-wing in Texas always appeal for votes for stricter border security quite similar to Australia but at the same time their loyal supporters secretly love the el cheapo labour from across the border. The only difference between Australia and Texas when it comes to cheap labour is that Australia has a formalized legislated orderly system via 457's and 88 day free farm "cultural exchange" working holiday labour whereas the US has a large illegal influx of people ready to work for peanuts and plenty of Republican voters who secretly desire cheap Mexican Nannies, Gardeners and Pool Cleaners. And of course don't forget those pesky "libertarian-minded" Human Resource Managers at the Multi-National companies claiming that they should be able to hire the best they can find for the job, when in actual fact the first and primary consideration of hiring anyone is and always will be the cost of wages and nothing else.

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Texas has one of the highest levels of job snobbery in the world, especially amongst their young it seems. (But Shhh! don't tell a Texan that because nobody messes with Texas LOL) Many of the "menial" jobs are taken up by illegal immigration because they are cheaper to employ. Australia doesn't need to worry about job snobbery being on the rise because the current 457 and working holiday visa schemes will be expanded like illegal immigration in America and ultimately work for the dole will be done by immigrants. The right-wing in Texas always appeal for votes for stricter border security quite similar to Australia but at the same time their loyal supporters secretly love the el cheapo labour from across the border. The only difference between Australia and Texas when it comes to cheap labour is that Australia has a formalized legislated orderly system via 457's and 88 day free farm "cultural exchange" working holiday labour whereas the US has a large illegal influx of people ready to work for peanuts and plenty of Republican voters who secretly desire cheap Mexican Nannies, Gardeners and Pool Cleaners. And of course don't forget those pesky "libertarian-minded" Human Resource Managers at the Multi-National companies claiming that they should be able to hire the best they can find for the job, when in actual fact the first and primary consideration of hiring anyone is and always will be the cost of wages and nothing else.

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Tea Party out-muscles Republican leadership on border-security funding

Date
August 1, 2014 - 4:35PM

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Richard Cowan

Washington: A bill to fund border security blew up in House Speaker John Boehner's face on Thursday, leaving Republicans in disarray and struggling to reconcile Tea Party demands with the need to deal with a humanitarian crisis on the southwestern border with Mexico.

Mr Boehner, the top US Republican, withdrew the bill after failing to corral a sufficient number of Republican votes for passage. That left him in an all-too-familiar position of having to somehow pass legislation or risk damage to his party in the November congressional elections in which Republicans are trying to capture the Senate.

A carefully crafted, $US659 million bill to pay for more border security and help feed and house tens of thousands of Central American children arriving illegally in the United States unexpectedly collapsed on Thursday.

The failure of the bill also delayed at least until September $US225 million in funding for Israel's "Iron Dome" missile defence system.

Tea Party-backed Senator Ted Cruz of Texas had his fingerprints all over Thursday's debacle for Mr Boehner. Senator Cruz, a potential 2016 presidential contender, had lobbied his House Republican colleagues to reject the legislation on the grounds that it was too timid.

The measure, complained Senator Cruz, would not reverse President Barack Obama's 2012 policy of suspending deportations of undocumented residents who were brought to the US as children by their parents.

Shortly after the drama unfolded on the floor of the House of Representatives, rank-and-file Republicans were publicly warring with each other.

"Someday, Republicans will wise up and stop listening to Ted Cruz," Representative Peter King of New York told reporters. Senator Cruz and a handful of other Republicans, Mr King said, "have hijacked the party."

Contrast that with a pleased Representative Michele Bachmann, the Minnesota Tea Party activist and failed 2012 presidential candidate.

"The people are very clear. They want people deported immediately," Ms Bachmann said. "And they want to have the fence built up so that they don't come in. They are tired of seeing their tax dollars spent on people who are here illegally in the United States."

All this happened as Mr Boehner and moderate Republicans try to expand Republican Party appeal to the growing number of Hispanic voters, who roundly rejected Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in 2012.

The Senate Appropriations Committee had also included the funds for Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system in a bill that would have given Obama $US2.7 billion to deal with an influx of tens of thousands of undocumented Central American children across the border with Mexico.

But the funding bill stalled until at least September when it failed to clear a procedural hurdle by a vote of 50-44, 10 short of the 60 needed. Republicans objected to the cost of the measure.

Thursday's theatrics were not the first time Senator Cruz proved to be a thorn in Mr Boehner's side.

READ & LEARN MORE->http://www.theage.com.au/world/tea-...on-bordersecurity-funding-20140801-zzcl8.html