Spinning Welfare Fraud in week of further cutbacks is clever media management

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The NZ Welfare application is 73pages long…

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ANZ Mortgage application 8pages….

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Herding NZs least financially literate through WINZ and screaming fraud when they work more than their convoluted and complex WINZ equations allow for – in the same week new draconian welfare reforms are announced – is spin doctoring at its most corrupt.

There’s no way NZers will feel sympathy towards our poorer, weaker members of society in the wake of the latest draconian welfare measures if we’re hearing about mass fraud.

The insult to injury is that it’s the very nature of WINZ red tape that generates most of the inadvertent fraud.

We are very easily led by the 24 hour media churn. I sometimes feel that this is more an abbitoir than a functioning democrcy, this is the place were rational thinking comes to get slaughtered.

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Puppet on the right says ‘welfare is bad, punish them’. Puppet on the left says ‘welfare is bad, punish them a little bit’. Heeeeey, the same shadowy corporate oligarchy is holding both puppets! 

Shut up NZ – here’s some X-Factor and Seven Sharp. Go back to sleep.

(Thank you Bill Hicks)

3 COMMENTS

  1. WINZ are judge, jury and executioner when it comes to benefit fraud. Be interesting to know what % of cases even get to court before the accused is forced to pay back.

    • Maree, I’ll be sending an OIA request to Chrester Borrows shortly and will blog it in the next couple of days.

      Borrows is being deceptive in his latest media releases on benefit fraud.

  2. Just letting you know that Frankly Speaking had a similar post a month or two ago highlighting the 70+ pages for an unemployment application and the 7 or so pages for a mortgage application. Probably that’s where someone got the idea from. Anyway, we on the left are great at sharing : ) important info.

    Re: the “fraud issue. I find it appalling that the assumption is beneficiaries are deliberately out to scam the system.

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