Nats to "crack down on people on benefits"

[Lilith7]

Not cracking down on white collar criminals, or tax evaders I note...

Don't talk so daft - they vote National...

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If someone has been under educated, raised in generational poverty both financial and  in other ways, they have limited hopes and dreams. They know their opportunities are limited, and see no reason to fight a system that agrees with them, so they play the game and do their own thing. Which can be very destructive.
Punishing them only beds that attitude in further. And generates real anger...

It does & at some point in the future, unless real change is made to a fairer system there will almost certainly be a channel for that anger, possiby even revolution.

The grapes of wrath should be required reading for every politician, once a year lest they forget.

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It takes a lot of years to break a person this way. Look at the age of our current crop of ram raiders and look back to their life experiences.

I am utterly convinced education is the key to most of society's problems, including this one. To snap an intergenerational cycle we need to start educating the parents of tomorrow, before they bring their children into that endless cycle.
That means investing in alleviating poverty, providing good safe homes, raising the standard of living for everyone, and providing access to education for everyone without any barriers of any kind.

Not punishing people already damaged by old ways.

Absolutely agree - imagine the difference we'd likely see if every person in the world had free access to education over their entire life time.

Dogs are right - human are nuts.