YET again, the government is giving away taxpayers' money. If it's not sending offenders on holidays, it is giving computers away (LET, March 16).

I was always taught: "If you do not work, you do not get."

Would it not have been better to put this money into a council-run internet cafe where everyone would have the chance to use it, or fun free classes for people who wanted to learn how to use a computer?

Or would it be a silly suggestion to put all of this money into every school in the country to update their computer training programmes, then all our children would benefit?

E M HARWOOD, School Lane, Blackburn.