Here We Go Again!

Now Tony Abbott is making an ass out of himself by
suggesting that no one under the age of the 30
receive the New Start Allowance. Instead they
should be sent to the mines in W.A. (What about girls?)

Next they will be bring back in National Service
for the unemployed! (Which to me has more merit that
his suggestion.) After all the government pays the
National Service men while private industry pays
the miners.

Did he really think this through or did he just
spurt off?

What man of that age wants to leave a girlfriend,
friends and family to go off to a lonely mining area.
At this time the mines are paying good wages, but
if this idea comes to fruitation then you can bet
the wages will drop!

It is bad enough that many young men of this age are
still living at home even when they have a job, but
it would mean that if they have no job then the PARENTS
will have to work to support them! Many parents in this
age group (50 to 60) are planning their retirement, in
5 to 20 years, not contemplating staying in the work
force to support adult children.

What happens if a young man is married? My son in law
is 27 and my daughter is 29 and neither were working
till two months ago (When he got a job). They have 4
children, who is expected to support them? When even
I don't have a job? His parents both work, but would
not even give them $500, when their car broke down and
needed urgent repairs. (His mother drives around in a
2 year old BMW that she bought new. My car is 18 years
old this year I bought it new in Oct, 1992!)

Perhaps if he had said 21, he would have more support,
but maybe what he wanted was debate and not support,
perhaps he did not want this scheme at all but wanted
it shoot down?

If young people don't get the New Start Allowance before
21 then it might encourage them to stay at school, TAFE
or university.

But stop burdening the Baby Boomers! Bad enough that the
pension age keeps going up, but now this! We are at an
age when we have to support our parents in their 80's and
now we are asked to suppoprt our adult children!
When will it stop??