This comment didn't slam him or Gillard just the scum in our society who always take advantage and think paying tax and the tax dollar is for their own personal benefit , they have have no sense of community what so ever.
"Charlie of Newsland Posted at 11:55 AM Today I'm disgusted that people think (both here and in the real community) that claiming the payment is a right of passage even if you havent really been inconvenienced a heap when you put other peoples destroyed lives in perspective. by all means people should get some assistance to buy new groceries, im sure a large family without power for 48 hours could certainly utilise 1000 for groceries but can people not be trusted to do the right thing when that seems to be what the community want? as any hint of government control is quickly attacked...i thinkt his govt couldnt sell a cancer vaccine in this climate.
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Did you bother to even read the article or did you just read the attack comments from the army of young libs who post constantly on anything they can twist into anti-labor.
Here is the jist of it.
"Centrelink payments of $1000 for adults and $400 for children were available to people without means testing, even if the only ill-effect the disaster had on them was 48 hours without power.
Mr Swan told ABC Radio this morning that such people disgusted him.
"If there are people who have been eligible for the levy but haven't required it and have gone in and claimed it, I think they are simply low life," he said.
"People may face all sorts of extraordinary circumstances, they may not have personal identification.
"If we were to get really bureaucratic, with really rigid rules in the first 48 hours or so, then we would be having an entirely different discussion about how we were too rigid and weren't paying people who were in dire need."
For this reason, some people who weren't deserving of the payment would be able to get it, Mr Swan said.
"People in the community won't appreciate the behaviour of people like that, if there are people like that," he said."
