there's a huge welfare mentality though. While i have sympathy for the guys who were on the late late talking about their housing woes, a bit of me wants to scream - no-one forced you to have 3 kids under 4, it is not like their circumstances changed that much that what was a good idea then is a bad one now - having one and leaving it at that for the time being would have been more sensible.
What comes across is the accepted wisdom/sense of entitlement that 'the state' must solve everything, personal responsibility doesn't seem to come into it, or cutting your cloth to measure. So if there's a problem then the state is failing everyone.
So bringing that back to the job bridge thing - if people expect something for nothing then if there's a bit of work to be done they feel they're being made part of a chain gang. Was a lot to be said for joan burtons "full employment" idea - everyone has a job (aka work for the dole). I know allowances need to be made for carers etc. But i think the country (both place & people) would be better off if people had something to get out of bed for. Even if jobbridge is blocking some real jobs being made available, maybe it gets a lot of people 'through the pipe' of picking up experience to make them employable for 'a real job'.
