Anonymous Wanker GUEST of 14 Jun 06

Little Johnny, has fudged the unemployment stats over the last 10 years - they USED to reflect people looking for full time employment - i.e. a full week is 40 hours.

Now is comparing apples with oranges, because if you have ONE hour work a fortnight, you are now counted as 'employed'. The Benefit (paid fortnightly) is then reduced by a percentage of what you earn (before tax and any 'necessary expenses to obtain work!')...

Depending on the rates of pay (AUD$2-3 an hour for some 'casuals'), you can actually end up WORSE off if you don't get 'full time' employment. And since you then drop 'side benefits' like medical, rate rebates, etc, you CAN end up worse off, unless you can get the FULL minimum wage - which is getting harder now since he brought in his IR reforms.

I don't give a shit what 'wondrous things' the USA claims, except as how it inspires Little Johnny to drag things down further!