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FORE MATE
Looks like Llpoh moved to a country with a bunch of free shitters. They like their shrimp on the barbie and golf, but work not so much. You get more of what you incentivize. It’s really that simple. The poor guy who can’t work on Sundays because of golf has enough trouble already.
Jobs wanted in Australia – but not if they clash with golf
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government is tired of unemployed people declining a job because it may interfere with their golf plans or dreams of becoming an actor.
The government plans to tighten its rules on who qualifies for unemployment benefits to encourage the jobless — including some with creative excuses to stay off the job — to go to work.
“Australia’s income support system is there as a safety net for people who genuinely cannot find a job — not as an option for those who simply refuse to work,” Employment Minister Michaelia Cash said in a statement.
The penalty for refusing a job offer without a good excuse is eight weeks without a welfare check, but three out of four unemployed Australians who refused jobs last year managed to keep their checks. Australia’s jobless rate is 6 percent.
The Employment Department on Tuesday released samples of reasons job hunters have given for remaining unemployed. They include:
— A 58-year-old man was not prepared to work for three hours on Sundays because that was when he played golf.
— A 19-year-old man turned down a job “to follow his dream of becoming an actor.”
— A 26-year-old man refused a job because “he doesn’t work with chickens.”
— A 50-year-old woman declined a receptionist position because of a “bad smell” in the office.
— A 33-year-old man rejected car washing as “too difficult.”
— A 23-year-old man refused to become a driver’s assistant because he wanted to drive.
The basic unemployment benefit in Australia is 261.70 Australian dollars (about $190) a week. It’s higher for those with dependent children and in need of rent assistance.
The government wants to close a loophole that allows the unemployed to refuse jobs while continuing to collect a welfare checks, but the Senate is resisting the changes.
The opposition argues that the government already has the discretion to withhold checks from people without reasonable excuses for refusing to work. It says the government’s proposal would remove any discretion in cases where withholding the benefit could leave a person homeless or suffering other harm.
FREE SHITTERS OF AMERICA
YES, THERE IS A FREE LUNCH & A FREE BREAKFAST
This is how your beloved government drones combat childhood obesity. They take your tax dollars and buy breakfast and lunch for kids whose families can afford to feed them. The government should not be in the business of feeding kids. Public schools have one job and one job only. Educate children and instill a curiosity and desire to learn. They have failed miserably, so they turn to social engineering and instilling an entitlement mentality in parents and children. They have used the excuse of hungry children not being prepared to learn as the reason for free lunches for the “poor”. I thought food stamps were supposed to provide money to feed the poor.
Now they have “expanded” their entitlement program to all kids. If you live in Pottstown and make $150,000 per year, your kid still gets fed by you the taxpayer. The rational from the government drones is that they are already feeding two thirds of the kids, so what’s the big deal feeding the other third. It’s only fair. They are just spending your tax dollars. And to those who contend it isn’t much, they evidently didn’t pay attention in math class. Paying $3.05 for the 840 kids who don’t need to be fed totals over $400,000 per year. That is your money.
This is your government in action. Multiply this clusterfuck policy by thousands and you understand why they run $700 billion annual deficits and have accumulated $200 trillion of unfunded liabilities. There are going to be a lot of unhappy free shitters when this fantasy comes to a tragic ending.
Free meals for all Pottstown school students coming in Sept.
POTTSTOWN — There really is such a thing as a free lunch — and free breakfast, too.
The federal government recently approved the Pottstown School District’s application to provide free breakfasts and lunches to every student in the district starting with the 2014-15 school year.
“We’re pleased to announced that every one of our students will now have the opportunity to have a nutritious breakfast and lunch to enable them to perform at the highest academic level,” said John Armato, the district’s director of community relations.
The decision comes in the wake of the March school board vote to apply for the free program given the high rate of poverty in Pottstown, as illustrated by the fact that Pottstown as many as 2,270 of the district 3,110 students qualify for the federally funded free-and-reduced-lunch program.
On Monday, building principals began alerting parents to the change with emails alerting them that “all students are automatically eligible to participate for both meals as listed on the monthly menu. No applications are required.”
Leroy Merkel, director of food services for the district, said the district will receive a reimbursement from the government for 95 percent of the cost of the lunches.
The district will get reimbursed at a price of $3.05 per meal.
“The remaining 5 percent of the cost will be covered by the cost of the a la carte food,” he said.
Merkel explained that the free lunches apply to “the meal as menued. So if a student just wants a piece of pizza, or a water or a soft pretzel — and that happens mostly at the secondary level — then they have to pay for that and that should more than cover the remaining costs,” he said.
The meals on the menu comply with the new federal regulations to make school means more nutritious.
The 2010 re-authorization of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act also significantly tightened the nutritional requirements for the school lunches, Merkel said.
“For example, the K-8 lunch menu has to be between 600 and 650 calories and it has minimums and maximums for grains and proteins as well,” Merkel said.
“It’s all aimed at combating childhood obesity,” said Merkel.
The district has been preparing for the change, Merkel said, particularly given that in the seven or eight states where this program was piloted, schools reported seeing a 25 percent increase in students coming in for breakfast and a 13 percent increase of those getting lunch.
“Our numbers were already on the high side already, so I would guess we’re going to see an increase of between 8-to-10 percent,” he said.
Even with that increase, the district is prepared for the start of the program at the start of school, on Sept. 2, Merkel said.
“We’re ready to go,” he said.