How I agree with JKC, from Bognor (Letters, August 22). These so-called do-gooders have done more harm than good.

Community service is treated like a day's holiday, lazing in the sun while they are supposed to be working, stopping to go to the local pub for a beer at lunch time and smoking all day long.

If these people, mostly out of work, can afford to drink and smoke, the State must be giving them too much money.

The down-and-outs that don't work and don't want to work should be rounded up and put into training camps. We used to have National Service. They went in as boys and came out as men. That's what is needed now.

Ordinary people need to have a say in how the country should be run and the State should only pay social security for a maximum of between three and six months.

If people refuse to take a job, their money should be stopped. As someone of 61 years of age who has worked all her life and brought up a family of five, I despise having to subsidise these scroungers.

-D Bennett, Greenleas, Hove