Double standard from A Current Affair over the DSP

[Dave The Man]

There Bashing Welfare again

[luvdids]

Stop watching it Dave. Seriously.

There'll be another welfare story in a week, then a dodgy tradesman, then a 'sting' where they take a $20 part out of something & get quotes to repair it, which are of course ridiculously expensive, then back to welfare and on it goes.
Oh, and throw a couple "neighbours from hell" into the cycle.

[David]

Don't forget criminals in five star prisons and thinly disguised advertising for the channel's new reality show.

[Dave The Man]

[Dave The Man]

I reckon Tracy Grimshaw get's turned on by Bashing Welfare :mad:mad:

[The Prototype]

It's more a ratings thing, they generally harp on about things that will bring the most viewers in. Most seem to have a negative outlook on those that get welfare and demonising them more for ratings seems the thing to do.

A nice story about how hard some are working to try to be working just doesn't have the same feel as "zomg this one guy is a massive welfare cheat!!" I've not really watched ACA in a long time, I think the very last time I actually paid attention to it was when I was on the West Coast and there wasn't anything else on.


If you can when ACA is on find something better to do, saves you from the show completely. Since it's repeated late at night and I was watching The Footy Show one night I got a brief viewing of ACA as I hadn't changed the channel, wouldn't view again any time soon.

[Dave The Man]

At it again today.

Have there Weekly Story Bashing the Welfare and try and make it look like everyone is a Cheat who is on Welfare

[think positive]

Yeah I watched it Dave and thought of this thread, was busy or would have posted

Did you actually watch it?

Can you really complain about them exposing excuses from people who are claiming the dole for not turning down actual job offers such as "I can't accept the job, I don't want to work with food" the 55 year old who said she "only wants to work 3 HOURS a week!" There was also "I'm going on holiday soon" and "I don't want to work that hard" .

Cool don't take the jobs, but you should not get the dole either.

[HAL]

How old are you? I don't understand why she wants to work 3 HOURS a week are claiming the dole for not accepting jobs such as he or she can't accept the job he or she don't want to work with food the 55 year old who said she.

[David]

[think positive]

[Wokko]

I believe in any society there will be 2% of the population who don't and won't work in any manner and will do the barest minimum to survive. It's much better that the bare minimum is collecting a pittance on welfare than do burgs or mug people. The cost of welfare is far less than the cost of having miscreants roaming around trying to grift, rob or beg their subsistence level income.

[think positive]

[stui magpie]

ACA ran an "expose" on the sugar daddy/sugar baby stuff last night. That's where middle aged dudes with cash to burn hook up with young attractive women who want to be "kept" and in return for a weekly amount to pay rent and living expenses or gifts or other things will provide services varying from going on dinner dates at little notice and always being the nice dutiful girlfriend to doing to no holds barred horizontal lambada whenever asked.

I only know because someone at work happened to watch it and recognised one of the women who consented to be interviewed as a "Sugar babe"

[David]

^ It's a weird dynamic and you can't help but wonder how either party maintains their self-respect throughout. I suppose if you look at it as a kind of prostitution it doesn't seem so bad.