The Left is as prone to manipulating children as pawns in their pro-welfare arguments as the gangs are in using them as meal tickets.
Just remember when you start hearing the objections:
The vast majority of adult gang members have received a main benefit. 62 percent for 5 or more years. Over half (59 percent or 2,337) of all gang members had benefit spells that included dependent children, either with or without a partner.
This will not include those children on a sole parent benefit whose mother is the main recipient.
Sixty percent of the 5,890 children of gang members have been abused or neglected. The alleged perpetrator of abuse or neglect was more often recorded as the children’s mother than the gang member.How can anyone advance an argument that the taxpayer should continue to fund an environment that is so bad for children?
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The screamers are complaining:
Giving Work and Income staff discretionary powers to determine who is gang affiliated will only result in further discrimination towards low-income communities”, says Ricardo Menendez March, Auckland Action Against Poverty Coordinator.
They miss the point it is the low-income communities the gangs are terrorising.
The paradox of tolerance.
Quite. But I never hear anyone complaining about the poor being disproportionately victims of crime.
I fear the sad reality is that poverty co-ordinators and their ilk are part of the problem, they object to and actively appose any meaningful attempts to address real poverty.
Bill English's Social investment approach terrifies the poverty merchants of this country.
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