Yes the Howard government tried all that but it didn't work partly because they would have had to employ an army of public servants to administer it and they did not want to do so and partly because work for the dole schemes are expensive to run and sometimes there is not much to show for it at the end. It's much cheaper to just pay unemployed people the dole. So Tony is not displaying any guts...he's just playing to the lowest level of Liberal emotions kicking people suggesting schemes he knows don't work and waste money. Dave R.
