Without a safety net
Wednesday, 27th May 2009
Conservatives should give Mr Rudd’s ‘earn or learn’ proposals a fair hearing, says John Heard
That is good news, not least for young Australians, for it is a hopeful message. It goes some way towards freeing them from the ‘soft bigotry of diminished expectations’, and as packaged, the Compact tracks ahead to the recovery.
Conservatives know that young Australians do not improve themselves by loafing. Rather, citizens become more productive members of society, and better human beings, by facing the gap between success and failure, and knowing that it is entirely within their power whether they stand or fall. There is reason to hope, then, that where the government’s Compact serves to encourage virtue, where it nudges citizens to employ the full force of their talents, it will produce an influx of newly serious, morally tested, mature young workers, just when the economy and the nation needs them.
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