Should the Unemployed get the new Apple Mac when its released in September?

Of course they should, along with the new iPhone 6 and a complimentary iPad Air!

Of course they should, along with the new iPhone 6 and a complimentary iPad Air!

Maybe not because of the cost but it would be good to have decent easy to use computers available in the job center

The computers don't need to be in the job centres, they could just as easily be in public libraries.

Obviously this is a trolling post to bait those who are unemployed and I'm not going to let this kind of nice behaviour pass because you're perpetuating a toxic myth. To date, I've been fortunate and worked my entire adult life. Throughout that time I have always paid my national insurance contributions and a hefty amount of tax.

The Government (especially the Tories) want people like me to have the mindset that people who are unemployed are skivers and scroungers. They want to do this so I applaud them when they cut unemployment and housing benefit. However, I'm not going to be a sucker for this because what they're actually doing is eroding my safety net in the event of unemployment whilst still taking large amounts of national insurance and tax (presumably to stash the cash for the indulgent baby boomer generation, who despite being wealthier than my generation, have failed to pay enough for their state pensions or the likely demands on the NHS).

In the past, benefits would be enough to tide you over if you lost your job and needed a few months to find another one. That meant, for example, that you probably wouldn't lose your house if you were an owner occupier or could carry on paying the rent. They're taking that safety net away and to make matters worse they're doing it at a time when such a safety net is becoming more important, as less people work in permanent roles eligible for redundancy payments, instead working on short term contracts.

They have no right to take this safety net away without cutting our national insurance contributions, yet they do it by highlighting what is actually a miniscule problem, benefit recipients who choose not to work. Most recipients want to work and can't find a job and the amounts spent on the workshy are a tiny proportion of the UK budget (the vast majority of social security spending you see goes to pensioners, but they conveniently fail to split that out when they want to make a point).

Why not put the new Apple Mac in all Job centres?