Expectant mothers to get £190 to spend on Fruit
Expectant mothers are to be given £190 to spend on fruit and vegetables to help ensure their child is born healthy.
The handout, which will be paid from April 2009, was originally announced in September - when it was said it would be worth £120. I didn't realise that Food prices had gone up that quickly.
In this age of welfare I can just see the average Kylie or Sharon popping down the green grocer for a pound of apples or a half-dozen of oranges. More likely it will be to the local Asda for some Booze and Fags. The new motto will be "A fruit grant a day keeps the shakes away"
So, as per normal, those of us who can afford to have kids will be subsidising those who can't. Meanwhile the government keeps giving them more money for fags and booze if they do. It is the usual "Joined Up Government".
Expectant mothers to get £190 fruit money sparks 'gimmick' row | the Daily Mail
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who cares how they spend it. the mothers who are responsible will buy fruit, the ones who aren't won't. this is the case with all public funding.
I for one am glad to see that for once the good are not being punished for the deeds of the bad.
btk
Yes, but why are the good punished because the bad can't take their medicine. This "grant" is just a gimmick, it is ill thought out and badly targeted and will not help those who most need it.
i think those who most need it are exactly the ones being targetted by this grant. Perhaps it would be better distributed in the form of 'veg vouchers' that can only be spent in that way.
...as for joined up government I would say this is a fine example of joined up government. everything they do is done badly. it all fits nicely actually.
I fail to see how the good are being punished because the bad won't take their medicine. This is a blanket payment as far as I am aware. Any pregnant woman will be in receipt of it, that can only be fair. Why should those who can afford to go without it be denied the grant?
Of course the affordability of kids discussion is a whole other blog! lol
btk
Totally bananas.......
I'll get my jacket.
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