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Now, I could go on at length about the latest madcap scheme of this Government, which I quickly named the ConDemNation after the election, but it's old, OLD ground. They simultaneously hate and love the unemployed - hate because of those pesky unemployment figures, and how paying for their benefits makes it SO hard to give their well-off mates and donors a big tax cut; love because they give the "Nasty Party" a fantastic scapegoat for all the country's ills...
...and then, I just couldn't be arsed. It's not a symptom of a general "state of meh" that stops me posting blog entries every day, or holds up the writing - I just find myself a little... conflicted. The Government should stop making the jobless out to be such greedy monsters, but then again, maybe some form of voluntary work might be an idea, to "keep the wheels spinning". From experience, I will say that long-term unemployment is NOT a lifestyle worth adopting, for before you know it, years have passed, and you're just where you were at the start, only less likely to find a way out, to do something else...
I will always regret what COULD have been, and I'm not just talking money. If only those in authority - The "Fnajing System" - could just take it upon themselves to GIVE A DAMN, rather than just shuffle paperwork, and make people jump through hoops, pretty much for nothing other than shits and giggles.
The whole... System has to change, not just those claiming benefits.
...and then, I just couldn't be arsed. It's not a symptom of a general "state of meh" that stops me posting blog entries every day, or holds up the writing - I just find myself a little... conflicted. The Government should stop making the jobless out to be such greedy monsters, but then again, maybe some form of voluntary work might be an idea, to "keep the wheels spinning". From experience, I will say that long-term unemployment is NOT a lifestyle worth adopting, for before you know it, years have passed, and you're just where you were at the start, only less likely to find a way out, to do something else...
I will always regret what COULD have been, and I'm not just talking money. If only those in authority - The "Fnajing System" - could just take it upon themselves to GIVE A DAMN, rather than just shuffle paperwork, and make people jump through hoops, pretty much for nothing other than shits and giggles.
The whole... System has to change, not just those claiming benefits.
