Controlling what beneficiaries can buy

[Lilith7]

Putting 50% of their benefit where it can only be spent on certain things and probably at certain stores sounds like a golden handshake for those retailers who suck up to the government sufficiently to gain that privilege.

What happens to those whose rent exceeds 50% of their benefit, or whose utilities costs fall into that same situation. Why should those that aim to improve their spending power by purchasing secondhand through the likes of Trade Me, FB, Neighbourly, etc be targeted?

I really don't think this lot are bothered; they seem only interested in the wellfare of the already wealthy & the will be wealthy.



God to a hungry child


I didn’t make this world for you
You didn’t buy any stocks in my
railroad
You didn’t invest in my
Corporation
Where are your shares in Standard
Oil?
I made the world for the rich
And the will-be-rich
And the have-always-been-rich
Not for you
Hungry child.


Langston Hughes