A poverty denial Child Commissioner

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FeedtheKids

Russell Wills isn’t not much of a Children’s Commissioner is he?

I am not a fan of overseas models of fully state-funded school cafeterias. They tend to provide poor food, assume state responsibility for a parent’s role, create dependence, cost a lot of money that could be better spent elsewhere, take up school management time, and provide no role for parents, business or community organisations.

…a Children’s Commissioner who doesn’t seem to be interested in children. 25% of NZs children live in poverty and rather than pick up the challenge MANAs ‘Feed the Kids’ Bill has laid down, we get hard right social mythology that feeding hungry children somehow removes the responsibility from parents and thus generates dependence.

We have to starve the children to save the children.

This is poverty denial, the attempt to downplay the uncomfortable truth of child poverty before the conscience of voters gets pricked.

This debate that Willis professes to want to engage in could occur if the Government allowed the Feed the Kids Bill to go through to select committee. The Government don’t really want that because they aren’t going to want to hear the outcome as it will challenge their ‘blame the parents’ meme.

We need a universal programme in 1 and 2 deciles so that there isn’t any stigma while building the school up as a hub for the community. School gardens would be an extra benefit. Why Willis must continue with the right wing defense lines rather than actually do something about child poverty is beneath the position of Children’s Commissioner.

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Here are a list of organizations who believe Willis is wrong and who support feed the kids…

Anglican Church,
Auckland Action Against Poverty,
Barnardos,
Child Poverty Action Group,
CTU Rūnanga,
Every Child Counts,
IHC,
Methodist Church,
NZ Educational Institute,
NZ Nurses’ Organisation,
NZ Principals’ Federation,
Poverty Action Waikato,
PPTA,
Save the Children,
Te ORA (Te Ohu Rata o Aotearoa): Māori Medical Practitioners’ Association,
Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora (Māori Women’s Welfare League),
Unicef NZ,
Women’s Refuge

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  1. These ideologues, which now included Russell Wills – are nothing but a bunch of vulgar Marxists. Who would have thought when Bakunin and Marx argued over what was better for working people – the rich would have taken their ideas on for themselves. Well good ideas and rich arguments will win in the end.

  2. just wondering if you could provide a link to where you got the list of organisations from? I noticed one that I affiliate with is absent . . .

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