Madam, – I am one of the lucky ones, having two jobs in this country at present and I genuinely feel for people who are currently seeking employment.
However, what sickens me is that a number of “jobseekers” who get their dole every week and who don’t have dependants or debts, aren’t even looking for work. Others are making tidy sums from nixers on the side.
I am fed up paying for people’s holidays and shopping sprees when I have barely managed to secure a mortgage, while being taxed to the hilt.
It infuriates me that the Government isn’t doing more to monitor outgoings, and I’m referring predominately to unemployment benefits. The fact is, there’s plenty of work out there – the problem is the lack of capital to pay wages.
Why can’t the Government put two and two together? It should be placing people in temporary positions to earn their weekly dole payments, which in turn would help the struggling understaffed workforce (while making allowances for genuine job-seeking).
The more people I come across on the dole, the more I’m tempted to leave my two jobs, my taxes and my responsibilities behind and perpetually press snooze on my alarm in the mornings until our Government finally wakes up.
– Yours, etc,
Madam, – During recent discussions in the media about Nama a number of commentators and experts have referred to “the haircut”. Will it be bob, the crew-cut, or possibly the Mohawk? In any event, when the cut is finally decided upon, can we be assured that the taxpayer will reap all (if any) of the fringe benefits and none of the “dreadlocks”?
– Yours, etc,
Madam, – Mr Richard Wilkes (August 10th) appears to have completely misinterpreted my letter of July 29th, and in the process become unduly personal. If he has not already done so, I would ask him to read the Opinion column written by Stephen Collins on August 1st.
In the paragraph referring to my letter, Mr Collins precisely reflects the theme of my letter, and I am at a loss to understand how Mr Wilkes arrives at the conclusions outlined in his letter. My friends would tell him that all my life I have been an advocate for social justice and the rights of the underprivileged, not only in words but in deeds. I may be many things, but an enemy within, as he suggests, I most certainly am not.
– Yours, etc,