*sigh*
From the Herald.
Fraudster to repay Social Welfare back in 2062
It will take a fraudster 54 years to square the ledger if she continues repaying Social Welfare at the current level of $20 a week.
Sonia Louise McCann, 25, of Murchison in the Tasman district, was sentenced in Greymouth District Court yesterday to seven months' home detention to be served at Greymouth after she admitted seven charges of defrauding the department of $54,000 during the period 2002-07.
Lawyer Richard Bodle said McCann had not used the money lavishly. An ill child had been a heavy drain on the finances and her partner was little help, leaving her to get by as best she could while spending most of his money.
Judge David Holderness said the large sum, lengthy period of offending, and premeditation were significant aggravating features.
Imprisonment was inevitable, but as McCann was a first offender and had a home she could go to at Greymouth (with home detention not available in Murchison), he said she could serve the sentence in the community.
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Seriously, what is the point of that? If I rob a grocery store, will the grocery store owner allow me to sloooowly pay him back each week, as I continue to visit his grocery store?
Of course not.
Even more insane would be if the grocer decided to start giving me free groceries, then take $20 a week of groceries back as repayment.
Almost invariably, this woman will still be on a benefit. Benefit fraud is no pre-requisite for not receiving a benefit.
In a civilised society, the $54,000 would need to be paid back in a more appropriate way. Presumably, in the case of this person, this would be done by giving 2700 $20 blowjobs on street corners.
The welfare state does not - one iota - positively change the nature of those trapped in it. All it does is allow taxpayers to walk the street without seeing what natural justice will do to you, whilst enjoying hospitality and entertainment primarily provided by recent migrants from countries that do not have a taxation regime that allows funding of such madness.
Much like musical chairs, until the last rich dude leaves the country and is replaced by a non tax paying migrant or benefit receiver, nobody cares until the music stops.
Fraudster to repay Social Welfare back in 2062
It will take a fraudster 54 years to square the ledger if she continues repaying Social Welfare at the current level of $20 a week.
Sonia Louise McCann, 25, of Murchison in the Tasman district, was sentenced in Greymouth District Court yesterday to seven months' home detention to be served at Greymouth after she admitted seven charges of defrauding the department of $54,000 during the period 2002-07.
Lawyer Richard Bodle said McCann had not used the money lavishly. An ill child had been a heavy drain on the finances and her partner was little help, leaving her to get by as best she could while spending most of his money.
Judge David Holderness said the large sum, lengthy period of offending, and premeditation were significant aggravating features.
Imprisonment was inevitable, but as McCann was a first offender and had a home she could go to at Greymouth (with home detention not available in Murchison), he said she could serve the sentence in the community.
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Seriously, what is the point of that? If I rob a grocery store, will the grocery store owner allow me to sloooowly pay him back each week, as I continue to visit his grocery store?
Of course not.
Even more insane would be if the grocer decided to start giving me free groceries, then take $20 a week of groceries back as repayment.
Almost invariably, this woman will still be on a benefit. Benefit fraud is no pre-requisite for not receiving a benefit.
In a civilised society, the $54,000 would need to be paid back in a more appropriate way. Presumably, in the case of this person, this would be done by giving 2700 $20 blowjobs on street corners.
The welfare state does not - one iota - positively change the nature of those trapped in it. All it does is allow taxpayers to walk the street without seeing what natural justice will do to you, whilst enjoying hospitality and entertainment primarily provided by recent migrants from countries that do not have a taxation regime that allows funding of such madness.
Much like musical chairs, until the last rich dude leaves the country and is replaced by a non tax paying migrant or benefit receiver, nobody cares until the music stops.