4 for 445,000

Sounds like a very one sided cricket match, but instead that is the number of jobs found vs the cost of the scheme.

Spending money to help people into jobs is good. But not at a cost of $100,000 per person.

The Howard Government has had some huge sucesses with its jobs schemes. How? Simple – they privatised the entire thing and rather than set up government schems and agencies, you have hundreds of agencies competing to provide the best value for money.