Crackdown on benefits
3/07/2006 18:52:02
The Government's having a crack down on benefit abuse by entire families in the wake of the Kahui case.
During the course of the inquiry it was revealed that multiple members of the murdered twins' family are on benefits.
Prime Minister Helen Clark says the Government is looking at whether there are clusters of households like the Kahui family, which can be investigated to see if their benefits are being paid properly.
She says it is a problem which involves an extremely small proportion of beneficiaries who get in a cycle of dependency and do not work.
How does she know that?
When people give one address but are transient between others, when relationships aren't disclosed, when true living costs are not declared, when children get passed between families, how does she know that the problem involves an extremely small percentage of beneficiaries?
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She doesn't know that. But the media will repeat it again and again so people will believe it.
Doesn't have to be true,just repeated often enough and she knows that.
Even if she knows it's not true, on past performance, do you expect our PM to ever give you a straight answer?
The family can now be vilified, and used as a abstract vehicle to go and justify dealing with other cases "just like them", and instead of a public outcry about human rights, they now have public support.
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