Kia ora,
If you are the mother of a family of three and you only have two eggs for tea so you boil them and mash them and add extra milk and you make toast with that cheap 99c bread and spread the eggy mess on the toast and serve it out, and of course everyone knows not to ask for more because they know there is no more then what is the point of throwing money at this situation? They will only go out and buy more eggs.
John Key knows what that’s like – you just don’t throw eggs at people just because they don’t have enough.
A family is living on leeks and pumpkin because their Mum had to use the money she got from cleaning up someone else’s shit for the rent. Totally obvious throwing money at these people would not help.
People need to learn. You add water to the can of baked beans to make them go round, you can add lots of water to the mince along with one carrot and one onion so it will last two meals. You can have bread and jam sandwiches and wrap them in ordinary paper because there’s no money for fancy wrapping or halfway decent sandwiches and bread. How could throwing money at them help this situation?
So one or two kids wear shoes with holes in the soles and put cardboard over the hole and it gets wet so they have to find more cardboard? And that girl has to wear some old togs on Saturdays while the only underwear she has is washed. How on earth could throwing money help her?
A twelve year-old girl gets a job at a Massage parlour? She looks fifteen. How on earth could money help that?
I agree with dear John, more jobs are the answer and these new jobs will surface probably round about the same time as the tax cuts he’s promised – that would be good timing.
And what are the kids in poverty going to have to do in the meantime? Go without for another 3 years? How on earth could throwing money at them help that?
I agree with John (and he has such a nice smile) if we throw money ar these people they’ll just go down to the supermarket and blow the lot – what good will that do?
