How do you motivate employees to work? An Australian politician suggests you use a cattle prod.
Newly elected Senator John Williams, in his first speech in the Australian parliament, called for unemployed idlers to be stung on the backside with cattle prods to get them to work.
“They are simply getting a free ride on behalf of taxpayers of Australia, and it is about time they received a touch on the backside with a cattle prodder to get them off their butts and actually do some work,” Williams said.
The Senator suggests the unemployed should make some contribution to society to earn their government checks.
Williams isn’t completely against unemployment benefits. He says the system should be there for people who lose their jobs until they find a new one. He’s just against those who are “determined not to work.”
