[url]https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/29/tory-mp-dominic-raab-jeered-over-food-bank-comments[/url]
[quote]A senior Conservative has prompted accusations of insensitivity by saying people who use food banks typically to do so not because of poverty but because they have an occasional “cashflow problem”.
Dominic Raab, the former justice minister, said the claim came from the Trussell Trust, Britain’s largest provider of food banks.
However, the trust said that while delays to benefit payments were one of the main reasons people turned to food banks, such crises tended to be exacerbated by poverty and low pay, which were also direct causes for many to seek assistance.[/quote]
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Well, nobody could accuse most conservatives of having any sensitivity whatsoever, so this is about par for the course.
This dude was doing some kind of debate event earlier today and got blown out by the audience when he made some jab at Corbyn cosying up to terrorists and someone in the crowd pointed out how many cuts there have been to the police under the tories.
[quote]not because of poverty but because they have an occasional “cashflow problem”.[/quote]
Yeah! Just like everyone​ in America is a temporarily-embarrassed millionaire!
The cashflow argument, the problem with this is that it implies that the user of the food bank is someone that smokes, drinks and gambles with their life every moment whereas the main user is someone who is living frugal, probably works a zero hour contract job at a place that pay so low it should be criminal, they're quite often in a family and ran into some problems as they happen - well basically the point is the cashflow problem is that they have no money in the first place, any money they did have was already appropriated by the generous banker for their mortgage, then the utilities companies & lastly the creditors who probably only get to take in a single £1 token payment per month after which if they didn't pay any of the above with money they can expect legal action to take place which is costlier than starvation. They're just trying to get a meal where they can whilst keeping their dignity, least of all should they have to suffer a cashflow problem to get their meal.
call me crazy but if you have an "occasional" cash flow problem that prevents you from [I]buying fucking food[/I], isn't that basically poverty??
The syntax to me sounds like he's saying that poverty is a long term state of being. Someone in poverty relies on a food bank month to month to get by.
Someone with a clash flow problem means that you typically buy all your own groceries, but this month you had to buy new tires and now you don't have enough money for the rent AND groceries. You need to pay rent, so you go to the food bank this month and then pick up groceries.
That's what it sounds like he meant. I don't know if the statement is true or not, but it doesn't sound too far fetched
[QUOTE=proboardslol;52291528]The syntax to me sounds like he's saying that poverty is a long term state of being. Someone in poverty relies on a food bank month to month to get by.
Someone with a clash flow problem means that you typically buy all your own groceries, but this month you had to buy new tires and now you don't have enough money for the rent AND groceries. You need to pay rent, so you go to the food bank this month and then pick up groceries.
That's what it sounds like he meant. I don't know if the statement is true or not, but it doesn't sound too far fetched[/QUOTE]
So... Poverty? If you barely have enough money to buy food and pay rent, you are simply poor.
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