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Sonja's avatar

I can’t remember who said it, or when - it was the late eighties, early nineties - it was a church leader innNew Plymouth but they may have been quoting someone else, but I still recall them saying that starting food banks was a mistake because it meant the government got away with not doing its fundamental job of ensuring people had the basics of life. It was a Catch 22 of not wanting people to go hungry so filling a gap that shouldn’t have existed (the baseline principle of unemployment benefits was they should cover a family’s basic needs and this was before the 1990 benefit cuts and was mainly due to housing costs as well as inflation)

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Tony Pomfret's avatar

Your post is a perfect statement of the arrogance and hypocrisy shown by the likes of ‘I’m rich so I’m sorted’ Luxons of this world.

And then to link their hypocrisy to religion, the source of so much war and confrontation, adds to my disgust of these people.

The uncaring, dishonest way they implement their right wing neoliberal ideology damages so many lives, I fail to understand how these people live with themselves.

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