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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
so the pregnant women who get vouchers for fruit and veg are having their dignity compromised are they?
I remember getting free school meals and free milk and orange juice......there is no dignity in being poor, and many pensioners will attest to that.
Until they make the pension one that will allow the older generation to live, rather than exist...I will take whatever is going......after all my taxes are paying for it too(as one who has seen her tax bill double - Thanks Gordon).
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As long as society accepts vouchers instead of a livable income the goverment will continue to issue them because they dont give a toss about anyones dignity.
On an individual level then of course I do not expect anyone to refuse vouchers if they are entitled but that should not mean that we accept that being poor means not having ones dignity.
There is a need here to think theoretically and collectively untill the less well off achieve this they will not achieve anything else.