Key 'out of touch' over hungry kids

[scumdog]

yet you seem quite happy to hand them over to businesses. Lets take the money off the poor kids and give it to the owners of McDonalds stores etc.

Some of the poor kids give it to McDonalds willingly themselves...

[oneofsix]

Some of the poor kids give it to McDonalds willingly themselves...

At least they get a feed in return and that's why they get your tax dollar in the first place.

[scumdog]

At least they get a feed in return and that's why they get your tax dollar in the first place.

And they in turn got their $$$ from MY tax-dollar.

[mashman]

Some of the poor kids give it to McDonalds willingly themselves...

better than burning the house down whilst cooking unsupervised at home... I've seen adverts where adults can't handle such simple chores.

[Brian d marge]

And they in turn got their $$$ from MY tax-dollar.

you lot eat donuts from my $$$$$$$

stephen

[scissorhands]

Yeah and I pay $$$$ tax dollars to have my phone tapped and my emails read [uber boring nothingness anyways]

[Brian d marge]

Yeah and I pay $$$$ tax dollars to have my phone tapped and my emails read [uber boring nothingness anyways]

just get married...its done for free

stephen

[JimO]

Yeah and I pay $$$$ tax dollars to have my phone tapped and my emails read [uber boring nothingness anyways]

i think your tinfoil hat is to tight mate

[oneofsix]

Yeah and I pay $$$$ tax dollars to have my phone tapped and my emails read [uber boring nothingness anyways]

You do, taxes, and whilst you may think you e-mails are boring because you know what's in them, it is what "they" think is in them that makes them soooo interesting.


Time for another roll of tinfoil, the last one just run out and the hats ripped.

[scissorhands]

You do, taxes, and whilst you may think you e-mails are boring because you know what's in them, it is what "they" think is in them that makes them soooo interesting.


Time for another roll of tinfoil, the last one just run out and the hats ripped.

Its made me more reclusive and worsened my symptoms, having my communications thrown in my face afterwards.
Time to forget about technology helping 'us' methinks.....

I'm designing and building a titanium layered fabric hoodie, should be a big seller and a health product winner for wifi zones.... eg schools.

Kids can use them to sheild themselves from harmful radiation..... tax payers money at work fucking up children in schools

[Edbear]

just get married...its done for free

stephen

LoL! And if you password your phone and computer they get very suspicious!

[mashman]

Further evidence of child poverty... but it's ok, they're all drug taking useless parents who should just get a better job. I wonder how many of the parents have jobs too... most likely more than you would imagine.

[Brian d marge]

on the National radio the other day they were discussing electricity prices going up.....







Stephen

go go IMF

[Matariki]

I wish there was more information in the article that the OP posted. But I agree, it’s not the government’s responsibility to feed children. It’s the parents responsibility and the school's responsibly (if the school has any concerns), if the schools are concerned, why don't they get in touch with a charity organization such as the salvation army, or red cross or the food bank? It wouldn't cost the country as much for those organizations to set up a humble soup kitchen using donations, than it would for the government to start up a campaign and enforce more regulations.

[James Deuce]

I wish there was more information in the article that the OP posted. But I agree, it’s not the government’s responsibility to feed children. It’s the parents responsibility and the school's responsibly (if the school has any concerns), if the schools are concerned, why don't they get in touch with a charity organization such as the salvation army, or red cross or the food bank? It wouldn't cost the country as much for those organizations to set up a humble soup kitchen using donations, than it would for the government to start up a campaign and enforce more regulations.

Proper nouns should be capitalised.

1. salvation army (sic): Conditional help based on recruiting a revenue stream. There is no other reason for their help. No other reason for the help given by any religious charity.
2. red cross (sic): Que? Not in NZ.
3. food bank (sic): which one, run by whom? Most of them struggle to keep their stocks of food to give away up, because the people with the disposable income to donate food have this set of beliefs (and it is faith based, they're not the kind of right-thinking people to let facts get in the way) where people who need food banks both deserve to be poor for being shit human beings and are responsible for providing their own food so I'm not giving any food to the food bank. If you watch who puts food in the food bank donation bins at the local Pak'n'Save you'll note that the majority of those donating it, don't look like they can really afford to.

As I keep telling people, when you are on the bones of your arse there is no help. You have to be an addict and beating your wife and kids before anyone notices and then it's generally the Police and Mental Health Services and your life is properly over and you're rendered state-dependent forever. When I needed help (twice) there was none. In the end we simply turned up on the doorstep of family (but not until we ran out of money) and made them pay attention. We got kicked in the guts twice in the space of 6 months and there was no charity agency willing to do anything because I was stupid enough to keep my job going and family went beyond being unsupportive and into the realms of physical and emotional abuse. We're out the other side, we paid our own way (and will keep paying until the day we die) and no one stepped up. So don't kid yourself that there is anything like State or Charity aid for average Kiwis in the crap, or that you poor taxpayers are carrying a huge burden because of malingering benefit bludgers. You're not. You're helping a growing percentage of Kiwis adjust to life with no frills. 98% of them get off benefits in 3 months.

A few people who I am proud to call "friend" went the extra mile and gave me somewhere to live when family started assaulting me, some people rang and rang and rang to make sure I was OK so I didn't do anything stupid, but the one thing that characterised this help was that they were neither from charities nor the Government. Don't kid yourself that Charities are there to help people and neither is the Government. Both groups, as diverse as they are, are interested only in pushing their own agenda, and for both this is maintaining their own financially oriented position in the world, often at the expense of people who actually ask them for help but don't get it.