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Dear Sirs,
For the following reasons, I for one feel that nursery school allowances should be capped to exclude anyone or any family with an annual income of more than £34,000.
In the absence of scrutiny panel intervention, LTIA claimants - myself included - recipients of income support, and even OAP's already living on the breadline in Jersey were systematically stripped of dignity when their much needed lifeline benefits were so publicly slashed in order to reduce states expenditures...
It seemed a cruel ploy to force vulnerable exploitable people back into work as malingerer's and scroungers who - without a leg to stand on and without petitioned moral indignation calling for scrutiny panel intervention reserved for those with a bit of clout - would no longer be tolerated
Nevertheless, those in need thus left to survive on a reduced pittance simply took it on the chin, and that was that.
But then – as if to add insult to injury as further cuts are needed with nary a pauper to be had or seen who'd not already been skinned alive to the financial bone in the purge's that they alone in this island must endure it seems - there is sudden uproar and a petition signed by 2,000 wealthy parents apparently earning more than £75,000 a year who (believe it or not) think that they should continue receiving nursery school allowance handouts while selfishly clogging up the islands roads, lanes and pavements in the £40,000 4x4's used for the old school run as those in real need walk on by
Shame on you Scrutiny panel if you use that disgraceful petition as a means to overturn Educations rightful intention to cap childcare allowances in a feeble effort to reduce costs borne of giving handouts to earners of £75,000 a year or more These poor wealthy victims of harsh states cost cutting measures - you see, and bless them too for trying it on - clearly and quite obviously don't need these handouts anyway unless those luxury family holidays and huge mortgages for posh houses they can't afford too are taken into account of course
In my humble opinion, and for what it's worth, such allowances (when substantial cuts are needed on every level in a fair society) should be capped to exclude those earning more than £34,000 a year, which laughingly enough is supposed to be Jersey's average wage, Ha.
Yours Sincerely