Arguments For Unemployment

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Let me ask you this: How many of you sitting in here today have parents, even grandparents or siblings, that work a demanding 8-hour day at their jobs? Everyday – every week? Perhaps missing out on birthdays, or other significant events at home because they have to go to work? Working to earn money, to keep a roof over your head and a hot meal on the table every night? Or are they just working to pay taxes? To pay for people to be unemployed? Taxes taken away from their hard earned money, to be sent to the Government, to pay for “unemployment benefits”.
Good morning / afternoon Mrs. Arnold and fellow year 12 students. Today I will be discussing the controversial issue, “Should working for unemployment benefits be compulsory?” My opinion, absolutely it should.

I would like to begin my argument by initially define the subject matter. The “work for the dole” scheme that has recently been discussed by the Australian Liberal Government puts forward the notion that the unemployed population of Australia, must work for the unemployment benefits that they receive. Unemployment benefits, or as it colloquially referred to, the dole is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘payment made from the state to an unemployed person’. An unemployed person however, is defined as “without a paid job but available to work”. The work that the Government is aiming to be made compulsory, in order to receive the unemployment benefits, according to the ‘Courier Mail’ is labeled as “unpaid community chores”, and includes rubbish collection, park maintenance and volunteering in aged-care homes. Although you and I, at face value may have the opinion that those duties would appear to be less then desirable particularly for those people who are highly skilled a...

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...e an increase in equality between the employed and unemployed; it is also thoroughly beneficial to society and the communities we live in. I strongly believe that we as a society need to remove the highly prejudiced opinions we have of people on the ‘dole’, and think of these people in less fortunate situations then we, not just as ‘dole bludgers’ but as people who just want to be considered in out community. I am completely convinced that the unemployed should not feel worthless and unmotivated, just because they do not currently have a job, but should be offered opportunities where they can feel a sense of pride and a sense of contribution. By implementing this scheme, it will inevitably tear down the barriers, which restrict equality between the employed and unemployed, and will be far better for our society, then keeping the distinct omission of the unemployed.

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