I'll just say that I don't take drugs or care much for drug users, but I don't assume the privilege of dictating how other people should be allowed to live, especially soft targets who have no way to defend their rights.
I'm not suggesting taking drugs is or should be a right either but if it's OK to say unemployed people can't do one thing where does it all stop. It sounds exactly like a dictatorship to me.
If a country is in debt then a lot of the taxes being pilfered go towards servicing the national debt not just to pay the social security burden. More money is constantly being borrowed to keep the economy ticking over.
Australia has been de industrialised and many of the people who worked hard all their life to in those industries to help make the country what it is will never work again. They are miserable, depressed and often suicidal because they just can't get work. Now you want to tell them how to live and what they can and can't do.
It would be more humane to just round them up & shoot them. That way we can bring in more immigrants who'll work for pennies an hour and not expect handouts.
But what you don't grasp mate is that the law states that NO ONE is allowed to do drugs. It doesn't say if you're poor you can't do drugs but rich people can. It says that different substances are illegal within Australia.
It also goes the other way remember, you're saying that just because they can't get a job, or don't WANT to get a job that the law shouldn't apply to them.
As a law abiding citizen, if i step onto a mine site and i test positive to an illegal drug then I loose my job.
Its not a dictatorship, its a civilised society. Its a law alot of bleeding hearts don't agree with, and because its hard or not fair it gets call inumane or fascism or any number of things. But no, its a society law, that EVERYONE has to abide by.
And you did read your tax return graph to see where the money is being spent didnt you? Over 60% of the money you earn and pay in taxes goes to social welfare projects. I would LOVE to see that money go to schools, or hospitals or debt reduction. But those on Welfare go BALLISTIC if anyone even thinks about trying to make them get a job and get off the welfare system.
Australia is a nation of bone lazy buggers that are too accustomed to letting the suckers that work pay for everything. Its unsustainable.
But we've gone well off the track of my initial topic.
Don't get me wrong @gobba.handcrafts , I agree with most of what you say. I live in an area with a high unemployment rate & from what I see the majority of them just live for drugs, all funded by taxpayers. Most of them don't deserve oxygen, let alone a lifelong handout.
I still think it's a slippery slope when you class everyone who is unemployed as a bludger, sure many of them certainly are, maybe even the majority are but not all of them.
You believe the country is being bled dry from the bottom, I believe that's just a fraction of what we are missing out from foreign corporations who pay hardly any tax and cook the books to send their money offshore ie glencore, facebook, twitter, google to name just a few.
You say it's a society law but these laws are made by corporations, our government is a corporation as is the ATO and our police forces. We haven't had a real government since whitlam signed the country up to UNIDROIT and hawke finished the job when the country started trading on the USSEC
Personally I think most of our laws are complete BS as they don't even have proclamation certificates to make them legal. The whole legal system is setup to keep people ignorant and trick them into consent so they can steal money off them.