Singles, childless couples left out

I have been thinking over Danielle's vote-buying package. Like every other vote-buying package ever announced, it ignores working singles and working childless couples. Do working singles and childless couples not vote? I think they do. Or, are there so few of them that their votes don't matter? I understand their numbers are increasing. So then, why are their votes not sought?

Now, the latest vote-buying package was truly a head-scratcher. If a household with children makes less than $180,000 a year or $15,000 a month, then that household gets relief of $100 a month per child under 18. What does $100 mean to a household earning $14,999 a month? How much Kraft Dinner will that buy that cannot already be bought? Yet, a single person earning a fraction of that $15,000 a month gets no help with the Kraft Dinner purchases, let alone lettuce purchases, and gets to help pay the sorry household making a mere $14,999 a month. (When did $15,000 a month become the poverty line, anyway?)

I myself am a senior and so I get in on Danielle's largesse. I don't need it; it will be redirected.

Meanwhile, I don't blame hardworking, younger non-recipients for resenting me and my grey-haired cohorts for always, always, always being on the take. Elaine Ramsay, St. Albert