John Key Sells Two Houses and Solves Child Poverty in a Single Blow!

May 29th, 2013

John Key celebrates solving New Zealand's child poverty problem 

with Minister of Labour Simon Bridges

The government announced on Tuesday that it would be Funding a food in Schools program to the tune of 9.5 million dollars over the next 5 years. Unfortunately 1.9 million dollars per year does not go very far when you have 270000 kids* in New Zealand living below the poverty line.
My maths make that about three and a half cents per school day per kid, or around a dollar per classroom and the last time I looked a box of Weet-Bix was about 5 bucks! Of course it doesn't really matter if kids don't eat breakfast on the days when they aren't at schools because you don't really want them learning anything form their deadbeat parents anyway right?

Strangely enough, if the government was looking for a way to fund the program these two state houses in Sandringham sold in March for exactly the same amount the government is planning to spend per year and given that the government owns more than 50,000 state houses, it looks like our child poverty problem is solved for at least the next 25,000 years!

Well done John!

I do have slight questions over the choice of Weet-Bix and milk for breakfast given that milk was recently discovered to be the most common food allergy for kids in New Zealand with wheat not too far behind...


* Figure from the Children’s Commissioner’s Expert Advisory Group on Solutions to Child Poverty