By Neil Hogan
Not too many people would dispute that there are problems in some communities that need addressing, but thrusting the Cashless Welfare Card on all for the acts of a few is not the answer.
Rather than spending a fortune to administer the Cashless Welfare Card and in the process funneling Commonwealth money to Indue, the money would be much better spent setting up local support groups where the problems exist to get to the root causes that leads to the problems, and set about to change them and help those who need help the most to change their ways.
The fact that any money spent this way would also go into the local economy instead of Indue’s coffers is just an added bonus.
Depriving people of the basic right to spend their money how they see fit is not welfare, it is punishment and will do nothing to resolve the root causes of the problems, in fact all it will do is:
a – build resentment against the people who actually need help.
b – build resentment against the government by the vast majority on welfare who are doing the right thing.
c – feather the nest beds of the few businesses approved to accept the Cashless Welfare Card.
d – promote a black market to get around the effects of the Cashless Welfare Card.
e – provide untold riches to Indue.
We all should ask ourselves; “Is that really the sort of society we want to live in or would we rather live in a society that tries to address the issues in a more humane, positive and harmonious way?”
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