Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Canterbury Mornings with John MacDonald
Episode: John MacDonald: Is it beneficiary bashing or just accountability?
Description: Guess what I was accused of the other day? I was accused of elder abuse. Now, this wasn’t for real. It was from someone who got a bit overexcited about what I was saying about people over-65 getting the NZ Super pension when they still earn more than $100K a year. A bit extreme, I thought. But there you go. But I bet the same person who was accusing me of elder abuse won’t be accusing the Government today of beneficiary abuse with its crackdown on people slacking around on a benefit...