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| Thread ID: 108299 | 2010-03-23 01:21:00 | All of a sudden, I'm glad I voted National this time.... | Peterj116 (6762) | PC World Chat |
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| 869322 | 2010-03-23 22:45:00 | If there is no jobs in the town where they are living, will they still cut the benefit because of the lack of jobs in the town? | Ice Road Trucker (15659) | ||
| 869323 | 2010-03-23 22:48:00 | If there is no jobs in the town where they are living, will they still cut the benefit because of the lack of jobs in the town? No, but they may relocate them to a town that does have jobs . Mumbai, perhaps? |
Peterj116 (6762) | ||
| 869324 | 2010-03-23 22:55:00 | National are all talk. They will back down once people start complaining. | Ice Road Trucker (15659) | ||
| 869325 | 2010-03-23 23:04:00 | In the United States, they used to, and I suppose still do.Namely to relocate people from areas where there are no jobs to where areas employers are looking for workers. Obviously they first find the candidate the work then relocate them and family,if there is one. Turn down the work, you have just removed yourself form the dole register. Certainly in the fruit picking season, the young unemployed could be drafted in for that work instead of using itinerant backpackers on working holidays. |
KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 869326 | 2010-03-23 23:05:00 | "There is and always will be assistance for those who do their bit and still need a small hand up." Up where? :o |
Richard (739) | ||
| 869327 | 2010-03-23 23:05:00 | And of course all the money saved by paying out less in Welfare can go toward tax cuts for high income people can't it? Oh wait..... Already announced. | Sweep (90) | ||
| 869328 | 2010-03-24 00:53:00 | No one can have an argument with adopting new technologies and processses to make business more cost effective and competitive, and people so displaced are casualties of progress. However, these casualties can be assisted by properly structured re-training and placement programmes, which is preferable to them being shown the door, with an redundancy payment. My objection is the exporting of jobs to third world, low labour cost, countries with the purpose of maximising profit and to hell with the social cost. Its' not as if the imported goods are measurably cheaper, the consumer pays just as much as he did for NZ goods, and additionally as a taxpayer carries the burden of providing a safety net for the displaced workers. All too frequently, the imported goods are of significantly lower quality and durability so the consumer looses both ways. Example ; Fasteners made from inferior grade steels - Bolts sheering like a stick of carrot without any significant torque being applied. What is needed is an impetus to buy New Zealand, to start making goods in NZ again, not to keep on flooding the market with more Cheap Crap from China. You are on the wrong track there Ken. Given the chance people will want to pay less,even knowing they are buying inferior product I remember years ago,a bulldozer blade bought here was $25000,an imported job of there same quality wa$15000. So this wanting to influence the market causes all sort of distortions. We all remember years ago where you couldn't even buy Nescafe coffee,we used to bring it in from Oz. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 869329 | 2010-03-24 01:09:00 | It depends really how much you want to work, if you really wanted to work and you were unemployed in say Reefton you would have to move to get a job. You could spend your whole life there on dole waiting for a job vacancy. Personally to support my family I would move anywhere in the country or even to Albania to get a job, my theory is there must be one job in the world for me. Wont find a job sitting on your butt complaining you cant find a job |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 869330 | 2010-03-24 01:18:00 | It depends really how much you want to work, if you really wanted to work and you were unemployed in say Reefton you would have to move to get a job. You could spend your whole life there on dole waiting for a job vacancy. Personally to support my family I would move anywhere in the country or even to Albania to get a job, my theory is there must be one job in the world for me. Wont find a job sitting on your butt complaining you cant find a job I find myself agreeing with every word you said,how you get it right occasionally is beyond me. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 869331 | 2010-03-24 03:10:00 | You are on the wrong track there Ken. Given the chance people will want to pay less,even knowing they are buying inferior product I remember years ago,a bulldozer blade bought here was $25000,an imported job of there same quality wa$15000. So this wanting to influence the market causes all sort of distortions. We all remember years ago where you couldn't even buy Nescafe coffee,we used to bring it in from Oz. Sad as it is, there is no going back to the days when much of the manufactured goods were made in NZ. Even the US complains about jobs going to China. What is sad though, is that opportunities to manufacture high value product (like helicopter gears) that other people would beat a path to our door to buy, went down the tubes at the same time as the run-of-the-mill stuff. "Picking winners" became dirty words AR (After Rogernomics):clap I remember when they tried to force NZ made Gregs, or was it it Bushells coffee on to us in the DSIR cafetaria aaaghh, but that was for cost cutting, then again everyone to their own taste :banana As regards moving to find a job, yes, for a bloke, but not so easy for a woman with children. I commuted for 9 months between home in Leicester and workplace Poole, going home at weekends, until I found a house, and before that commuted for 3 months between Solihull and Leicester again going home at weekends. It can be tough, as everything goes wrong at home whilst away, like burst pipes, or the children falling ill, but there is not much option if you want a job of your choice. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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