Unemployment
Sir, — Two basic kinds of people inhabit our world today, the givers and the takers. In every direction we find hands outstretched, palms turned upwards, begging, requesting, expecting, or demanding. Where is the pride and satisfaction of effort, involvement, achievement. or independence? People avoid activities unless they are rewarded with gold. The sooner people
realise the return is for giving, not constantly taking, the sooner the country will recover and progress, "standards of proficiency have reached a low ebb. Are we returning to the barrow and the banjo? The unemployed should be engaged in works of national value, orientated towards work and not handed sustenance without physical or mental subscription. The givers are now paying for this folly. Unless rectification is taken we will carry the burden well into the future with all the social implications of malajusted individuals in a decadent society starved of meaning. — Yours, etc., .1. QUIRKE. November 5, 1978.
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Press, 10 November 1978, Page 12
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