Andrea Junker 4d ago

Before becoming a politician, one should complete a mandatory 1.5 years of social service, divided into three-month periods:

— in nursing care
— in a daycare center
— in a school
— in a medium-sized company
— in retail
— on a farm

All unpaid and voluntary, of course.

Show threadMoya4d ago

@Strandjunker

Yeah, not sure I'd want a fucking huge chunk of them anywhere near a school tbh.

A 6 - 12 month stint on a minimum wage, living in a low-income area, and a contract signed to say they can't cop out earlier and still be allowed to run, should take care of most of them tbh.

Show threadirne jawe
@CaptiveSteel @Strandjunker ideally they’d need to be hired into each job like anyone else. Application, interview, background checks, lousy job market, the whole shebang. No special treatment whatsoever. No private support during the process.
Mar 18 at 6:39amWeb
Show threadMoya4d ago
@pewterbaw @Strandjunker
Exactly. No cheap Dr visits, a complete dunger for a vehicle (or none at all), and as for a job? It should be in a public-facing role, but NOT a government department. Retail, behind a bar, waiting tables, rubbish collection, janitorial, that kind of thing.
Show threadMoya4d ago

@pewterbaw @Strandjunker

We had a politician a cpl of decades ago attempt to 'survive' on a benefit in a grandiose attempt to 'show' us how we exaggerate the hardships some people lived under.

She lasted a cpl of weeks, and then her kid got sick. Aaannnnd that was the end of that!

Oddly enough, she didn't get voted back in. 😉 😎

Show threadirne jawe4d ago
@CaptiveSteel @Strandjunker bingo