Wouldn’t it be nice if Paula Bennett was as understanding to beneficiaries who get accidentally overpaid?

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Staff member in Paula Bennett’s office loses credit card

The staffer working for Government minister Paula Bennett who misused an office credit card no longer has access to one.

It was revealed last week that one of Bennett’s staff had withdrawn $1200 from a credit card, which was reimbursed when the error was picked up by Ministerial Services during the monthly credit card reconciliation process.

Today Bennett said she was “disappointed” it had happened but the money had been paid back immediately.

Just a mistake, nothing to see here. Wouldn’t it be lovely if Paula could be just as understanding to Beneficiaries who get accidentally overpaid because of the Ministry of Development’s complex rules on when a person is a partner? Wouldn’t it be nice if Paula could be as understanding to those on benefits who get cut off because they can’t get to a pointless budgetary meeting? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Paula could be as compassionate to those who have nothing as she has been to her staff member accidentally splurging on the Department credit card?

Wouldn’t it? Because as it stands, it kinda looks like a nasty double standard doesn’t it?

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  1. Paula Bennett is without empathy,affinity,compassion generosity and plainly lacks the emotions to be a decent and good person. Like her leader just an evil self serving sociopath.

  2. Bloodonherhands Bennett. It is getting to the point with this woman that I am surprised she doesn’t have her own protection staff. She could do with one after the threats I have heard issued towards her. She is a disgusting, appalling, odious thief, cheat and liar. She may as well forget trying to position herself as the next leader of the natz, she doesn’t realise that she has actually just been used by her idolised leader to do his dirty work, no-one will forget the part she has played in this filthy govt.

  3. Some employees are more equal than others.

    Feudal rulers as a matter of course treated their closest servants (or slaves) better than those they didn’t have to interact with on a daily basis.

    These servants were known as the “personal retainers”, or “loyal retainers”. There were a lot of more rude words for these priviledged close loyal servants as well.

  4. Bennett is a grade-A hypocrite with regards to her attacks on beneficiaries. She relied on state support throughout her adult life to enable education and development of her career, once in a position of power removing the Training Initiative Allowance denying others the same opportunities that got her where she is.

    Bennett kicked the ladder away… she kicked the bloody ladder away!
    And still reminds us of her ‘Westie’ background to get street cred with the hobbits.

    A reasonable person would be racked with guilt but not Paula and that takes some serious gall.

    Definition of sociopath: “a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience”

  5. 1000% Bert and Martyn.

    Definition of sociopath: “a person with a psychopathic personality whose behaviour is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience”

    This applies to all of National philosophy & policy also.

  6. Bennett the bumper, with her leopard skin car, she drives up, chases the beneficiaries off the Henderson square, close to the railway line, and forces them to jump over the fence onto the railway tracks, to be hit by a train.

    Another one of those “workless” layabouts, she thinks, another one less in the statistics, the numbers on benefits are dropping, and there are many reasons for this.

    So one of her staff got a bit cheeky with a credit card, I read.

    Oh, it was a working person, they can be forgiven, they are “noble” ones, especially working for Paula ones.

    Same like the mum that forgot her little child in a car on a carpark outside Whanganui hospital, who died in the overheated car. She was a health worker, a worker I stress, NOT a “layabout” pushing up “unhealthy” statistics. She can and must be forgiven, forgetting little ones in cars is a sad phenomenon, it happens to other middle class mothers also, it is a kind of psychological issue.

    Had that been a beneficiary, the story would have headlines at the top of the front pages of papers and websites, screaming about the “useless” and “irresponsible”, “nasty” beneficiary who would leave a small child behind.

    Worker – GOOD
    Beneficiary – EVIL

    That is the value calculation that Paula has fed us during her term as Minister for Social (Under)Development.

    And she was the one, who met Mansel Aylward, that hardline, “mad’ professor from the UK, who believes and teaches that “worklessness” is the root evil of all illness and social problems, get em into work, even if they are sick or disabled, get em off their bums, as work is “therapeutic”.

    https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/bratt-aylward-shifting-your-primary-focus-to-health-and-capacity-june-2013.pdf

    And Dr Bratt the Rat agrees:
    http://www.gpcme.co.nz/pdf/GP%20CME/Friday/C1%201515%20Bratt-Hawker.pdf
    (“Ready Steady Crook” is his presentation, asking are we killing our patients with kindness)

    And here is one to deal with “pushy patients”:
    http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CBwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rgpn.org.nz%2FNetwork%2Fmedia%2Fdocuments%2FConference2011%2FD-Bratt.ppt&ei=QwvrVIy5HIP98QXXqYKoAg&usg=AFQjCNFEdYN_dDW9BAZvZo_cQpC2rFyelg

    He had his “prime time” under Bennett’s rule, when ‘Future Focus’ was brought in, to work test sickness beneficiaries, and to have designated doctors cull some more off benefits. Oh, work will set you free, is the motto now.

    More found on ‘nzsocialjusticeblog2013’ (“bing” or “google” it).

  7. I think it would be just wonderful if paula bennett exploded . That photo shows her to be building up pressures from within. I wouldn’t stand too close to her, she looks as if she’s gonna blow !

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