So we can’t feed the kids, the poor OR the sick now?

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Let me get this straight. We can borrow $10 billion in tax cuts over the last 6 years for the richest NZers, but we can not feed the kids, the poor or even the sick now?

Revealed: Warning over hospital food cutbacks
Plans to slash costs nationwide by serving cheaper meals spark alarm among nutrition experts that patients could be left malnourished — or dead.

…how is such blatant Government mandated inequality not decried for the abuse of privilege that it is?

Our first responsibility is to feed the most vulnerable. To hand out billions to the rich while starving the kids, the poor and the sick should be a national scandal played out on every front page and every news bulletin.

Instead we get Mike Hosking’s as an election ‘moderator’ and selfies of the Prime Minister sunning it up at his multi-million dollar Hawiian mansion…

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…vacant aspiration and empty optimism ignores the billions handed to the rich while still decrying the meagre welfare to the most vulnerable.

Welcome to 30 years of consumer culture neoliberalism.

16 COMMENTS

    • We are officially one sick society. A small % creaming it and choking off the less fortunate at the same time, while they blatantly break the laws of the nation and have never been held accountable for even one of their crimes,( I make exception of Banks, thanks to the concerned citizen Mr McCready, a MSM which brings shame to the words journalistic integrity, a section of society worshipping a hollow man, a section of society so ground down, day to day survival is their mission in life and the apathy surrounding us all is nearly palpable, even in these crucial times. What hope for us?

  1. From my experience of hospitals one is more like to suffer food poisoning than malnutrition. These days one is not allowed a long enough stay in hospital to suffer mild hunger pains let alone die of malnutrition.

    Anyway I have instructed my family to send in Red Cross food parcels if I ever have to go into hospital again.

  2. Well, if you are Mike Hoskings or the ilk, yer puts yer money where you pocket is.

    Not where your conscience is.

    • Make sure you and everyone you know in a similar situation votes. Resort to driving them to the booth if need be because not voting essentially guarantees National dominates the government for the next term.

      • Yes Z.
        Nats will probably bring in some new legislation before the election to prevent sick or poor people from voting.

        However don’t offer to take anyone to the polling booths if they are staunch National voters believing the MSM hype – just take the others.

  3. I see that we the people/government borrow 27 million dollars a day since Key came on/in office. So Key is all about the selfie now, that drips with too much irony. Next thing he will be doing his own ‘wacky’ version of the wrecking ball video.

  4. It’s funny – I was only just the other day talking about hostpital food with the mother in law (last in hostpital 2 years ago for 3×2 weeks) and saying how it was not too bad concidering it’s hostal food and quite tasty mainly. I would like to know – more to the point – how much money it is costing to get this Compass company in to provide meals compared to the old system. Conspirisy theory alert: how come Auckland get the award wining food system?

    • This has got to be a Nats initiative doesn’t it.
      So there you are, all sick and injured, and vulnerable, lying there in your hospital bed – “Now get this gruel into you! And no whinging about it! There’s no more til tomorrow night so eat it all up!”

      How disgusting picking once again on the invalid and poor – public hospital patients.

      I reckon this new catering contract is for one of Keys pet cronies somewhere along the line.

      Opinion and belief.

  5. To fund their spend up on top earners and to achieve the $372 million “budget surplus” they claimed they have, on time and as promised by John Key in 2011, National had to cut and slash in areas that they calculate won’t affect their vote (but will hurt people nonetheless) and otherwise go into the creative accounting business.

    Relevant to this is a very interesting article in the Sunday Star times where Christchurch accountant Cameron Preston has cited 3 reasons why the government’s budget surplus is a fiction.

    Essentially it revolves around National reallocating about just over half a billion dollars worth of debt to the Christchurch City Council for rebuilding roads, a debt for which the government was liable for. However this liability has a convenient review after the election in December 2014 which may well see it back on the government books.

    Secondly some expenses for the rebuild have been called assets and so therefore don’t appear as a loss on the surplus.

    And finally the government is by law supposed to fund the difference for rebuild between what the EQC can pay and the shortfall which is $2 billion. The government has stated that it will not have to pay the short fall which is already delaying the rebuild.

    These revelations are a huge amount of money and if included would have been a major black mark on Nationals competence to run this economy. It only goes further to expose Nationals management of the economy as one constant illusion and a government that continues to lie, manipulate and twist everything to remain in power.

    In short any trust anyone had in the NZ Government should be put on hold.

  6. It’s actually a violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990. Key and his cabinet ministers are human rights abusers and they are not either intellectually or psychologically fit for their positions.

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