I'M GLAD I'M STILL ON THE PENSION
I'm glad I didn't go off the pension, because when they told me I had to look for a job - giving the false impression that I had no choice - I went to see them and they started to try to run my life. I soon found out that I did not need to find a job, and have subsequently enrolled in a Welfare course at TAFE. If it had been left up to them I would have to do a course that I was not interested in.
I believe in the "right to refrain". I do not believe in making people work, and, the state is responsible for much neglect and loneliness. They make little circles and rectangles (money) and imbue them with value - saying that they are the only things in society that matter. This leaves people bewildered, and at a loss, as only the elite have enough to participate in the market place.
ANXIETY DOESN'T EXIST EITHER?
The Howard govt is now going after people that used to be able to get on the Disability Pension during the Great Recession - when governments wanted to lower the jobless rate. If you were over 50 you could more easily get on the pension because of your lower back conition of anxiety issues.
Now there are more jobs about and the Howard govt wants to give bigger and bigger tax cuts to the rich and middle class (plus more miiddle class welfare) it is now going after people with disabilities who it now claims can at least do some part time work (ie work for welfare). It is doing this by hiring its own "doctors" to falsely assess applicants for Disability Pension - as being not disabled enough to get the pension.
Such people just end up on the dole so they they can be "breached" ie their income cut for no good reason. The nnew test for DSP is that you can't do at least 15 hours of work at week Of course no one can support themselves on just just 15 hours of low paid work.
THERE'S NO SUCH THING
Our Treasurer, Peter Costello claimed that "there can't be that many people with bad backs".
