What's the difference between Shame Jones and the other looters running amuck with taxpayer credit cards, and the Tauranga couple caught ripping off $250,000 worth of benefits?
Nothing!
OK, the total may have been larger, but the sentiment behind the theft was the same. - ie 'I want something that belongs to somebody else, and I don't care how I get it.”
No morals, no principles, just pre-meditated theft.
The end result was the same too. Honest, tax-paying individuals had their money taken by force and deceit, by people who saw an opportunity to milk a sitting duck, and too lazy to earn it themselves.
The tragic thing is they will all be entitled to vote come election time, and vote for those who promise to give them more of the same.
Shame Jones is a socialist, firmly of the belief that he is entitled to a share of the earnings of others, and when he's not given a big enough share, happy to use his parliamentary privileges to top it up himself.
They will all pay it back I'm sure.
The couple at 50c a week (taken from their benefit!) and Jones from money taken from others in the form of tax - hardly a punishment at all. Jones and the rest should get the same sentence the beneficiary fraudsters got - but no. He will be back to ripping us off (legally of course) in no time.
Graham Clark, Kaimai.