Re: AUT: welfare state

["Peter Jovanovic" <peterzoran@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi all

Chris wrote:
>I think that you are all on to something here.  My take is that the welfare
> >state has less disappeared and more been increasingly turned into a
>policing >apparatus of enormous proportions.  So while funds that go
>directly to >working class people are cut, so that they have less access to
>money not >directly gained from waged labor, the apparatus of control put
>into place is >actually as big as ever, but the money goes to the agencies
>which intervene >in and take control away from working class people, such
>as DCFS (Department >of Shildren and Family Services), which can take kids
>away from their >parents, for example, of the reorganization of welfare
>into workfare and >other such moves.

A few observations on the welfare regime here in Australia:
I've been getting the dole (unemployment payment) for most of this year and
last. In a few weeks I'm going to have to do my second 3 weeks fulltime 'job
search training' course run by a private employment agency. These scumbags
get a bonus payment from the government for every person they get 'breached'
(a reduction or stop in dole payments for not applying for enough jobs,
showing up to courses etc).

My brother got and 18% cut for six months for not showing up to a course.

I heard some federal govt minister on the radio this morning saying roughly
that people on single parent welfare should have to do parenting courses so
that their kids are turned into decent citizens and productive workers.

cheers
peter

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