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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
I'm all for the proposals but just wonder where the jobs are going to materialise from, I understand the work in the community bit but surely that could only carry on for so long!!
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Creating the jobs would be easy. they don't have to be in the private sector what is wrong with old idea of public work for public money?
William Wodruff in his book The Road To Nab End talks about his father who whilst unemployed applied for assistance and was given the task of clening the Queen Victoria statue on Blackburn Boulevard.
I seem to remembeer my grandmother talking about Whitebirk Drive being built by unemployed men
Now I dont for one minute think we need any more roads built but everywhere you go there are weeds growing and verges that need more regular tending than they currently receive. As we all know our hospitals desperately need more cleaning and look at practically any public building and you will see dirty windows. So many times we are told that projects can not go ahead because there is not the money to pay for the labour yet we are paying peop0le to do nothing?!!!
We need to be sensible of course people who genuinely become unemployed need time to seek work but after about months I would have thought most genuine people would want to get back to work