🚀 go-pugleaf

adm@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (David Moss) writes:

>Annette <ntsoft@iinet.net.au> writes:

>>Can anyone answer these questions, should the draft go through
>>parliment?
>>  (some background)
>>Variable Child Care Usage
>>  (worked out between Agency and Parent)
>>-predictable but irregular care (amount predictable but days vary ie
>>shift workers)
>>- unpredictable regular care (eg casual workers)
>>- unpredictable and irregular care (eg on-call workers)

>>Question:  If families who cannot define a pattern of usage or predict
>>their care needs for group payments will be paid reprospectively on
>>production of receipts..... wont that put them at a disadvantage?

>>I quote my own case.
>>I work 3 nights a week, sole parent.
>>One month its Fri/Sat/Sun the next its Sat/Sun/Mon.
>>ok, so thats regular - but I need 2 child care centers - one for nights,
>>and one for days. I still have to pay for the Tuesday day, even during
>>the month I am not using it.

>It seems to me you are in the wrong line of work for your circumstances.
>Perhaps you should consider changing to something else. The hours you
>mention are more suited to someone without the responsibility of raising
>a child. Why you should expect me to fund your lifestyle choice when I
>have enough trouble funding my own is really beyond me.

One wonders why David Moss chooses not to apply this reasoning to farmers
when the government is giving them another $500 million in handouts.
But of course we must fund the lifestyle choices of farmers or we wouldn't
get bread for '99c', would we? Isn't that how it goes, David?

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Cheers,
Marty.
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