There's PLENTY of community service for the unemployed to do!
Removing grafitti
Sweeping the streets
Picking up litter from beaches

etc...
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Community service?
Yes, I can see your point BUT:

Whilst you could take John Doe out of the dole queue and he could use a cloth and water to clean chalk off a floor, whats he going to do with a wall covered with spray paint? You take him off to a council depot, sit him through a session on how to use chemical cleaners, provide him with the goodies to use, and send him back.
Thats cost you (the taxpayer) because you've paid for his training andequipment.

Oh, hold on...

This isn't one person here, its hundreds and thousands. (Thats people, not sprinkles...)

Sweeping the streets? Same problem.

Want the beaches cleaned? Yes, you can provide plastic bags and grippers, and then have a bin lorry there at the end of the day.

Seven days a week?

And since there are so many workshy people out there who have so many benefits that they can claim are essentials to their life, do you honestly think that everyone on the dole is going to go and do 5 days a week for basically nothing?

People who want to do voluntary work are already doing it, working in charity shops, helping 'meals on wheels', and helping people on a personal basis rather than by official arrangement.

Make it harder to exist by benefits alone, bring back the idea of 'work for a lifestyle' rather than the idea of 'if I sit here I can get everything from the government'.

I know people on 40 fags a day (£10) every day, big plasma tv's, the latest in clothes, trainers not from discount stores, mp4 players for each of the kids, games consoles, etc, all paid for by workers like me struggling to pay bills.

Yes, there's people out there on the breadline too, and I feel pity for them. But i do wonder what the others know that they don't.
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