No job is no justification for crime
• I would suggest 'A, Concerned Local' and 'Concerned Citizen' should read more carefully and check their facts before rushing into print (see 'Letters' in the last week's Bulletin).
The 'Local Yokel' letter (in the previous week) referred only to those responsible for smashing 41 shop windows on the night of 4 July; at no time did it suggest that everyone
on the unemployment benefit resorted to this type of criminal activity nor did it suggest that
the unemployment benefit should be stopped (for those responsible for property
damage) without replacing it with work-related wages at the basic rate of $6.25 per hour in a controlled environment (at a reparation detention centre). I too have been unemployed but at no time have I thought smashing windows and indulging in other forms of property damage would have improved my chances of obtaining employment....in fact, quite the reverse. However it would seem from the 'Concerned Local' and 'Concerned Citizen' letters that being on the unemployment benefit somehow justifies such criminal and wanton behaviour.
Local Yokel Supporter
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Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 404, 21 July 1992, Page 4
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180No job is no justification for crime Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 404, 21 July 1992, Page 4
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