On 03/04/13 Rob Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >On 03/04/13 04:44, helen varley jamieson wrote: >> back in the 90s, a couple of (conservative right-wing) politicians >> in nz did this as a kind of publicity stunt/challenge to prove that >> it was possible for people to live on the slashed unemployment >> benefits of the time. i can't find an online reference to it, but >> from memory they did it for a week or maybe 2,& made a whole lot of >> media appearances giving patronising tips to low income people about >> how they were able to make ends meet on a benefit& have fun doing >> it too. > >A politician tried it in the UK in the 80s (I think), and had the >intellectual honesty to admit it wasn't possible. I cannot now find >the reference thanks to IDS. > >- Rob.
on a slight tangent, there was more recently, "rich famous and homeless" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7qwa8XL_Yc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jBkI_sLKcE _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
