Quote Originally Posted by Young Banger View Post
its all about statistics, you move people about, cut their dole, get them into education/courses, back to work, self employment etc even if its for a short time.It all looks very good
Yep, nail on the head!

I was talking to a couple of my mates over Christmas who are on the dole and they told me that they are being forced into community employment schemes this year or their benefits will be cut. Apparently the government will pay them an extra €20 for working 20 hours per week. So the tax payers have to fork out more tax just for the government to falsely bring down the unemployment rates? Also those figures don't even take into account the mass emigration of our graduates, massive brain drain to our economy.

You seriously couldn't make this shit up