If you are a hungry, poor or disabled child – National don’t care

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Martyn Bradbury
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With National voting down the ‘Feed the Kids’ Bill last night, their constant denial of child poverty and the shocking stats released today by CPAG that 11 000 disabled children have been thrown off welfare, the reality is that Key’s rock star economy is built for milk powder producers and the wealthy, not the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.

How do those who voted National reconcile such a disgraceful abdication of responsibilities? They shrug, blame the parents and call the bank for their next speculative property mortgage.

The disconnect between the reality of poverty in NZ and the denial those who vote National need to espouse are as far apart as NZ and Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth.

If only 11 000 disabled children losing welfare was as important as announcing new X Factor Judges – this is why we can’t have nice things.

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15 COMMENTS

  1. Martyn I am just speechless. Well no not really as I have taken to swearing, to shouting at the TV news, to crying for the vulnerable, our neighbours and friends. How can a bunch of politicians get their priorities so wrong? I guess this is planned as they are supposed to be intelligent and tell us they know what they are doing. Something is seriously wrong.

    • Studies have been done into this sort of amoral, self-serving behaviour, and it’s all about ‘the group’. If you watch media interviews with Key where he’s flanked by several of his senior MPs, you’ll see them all solemnly nodding along with his every utterance, no matter how callous or patronising. They’re all in this together and that knowledge is a sort of psychological security blanket.

      However, when you see MPs (Nathan Guy or Simon Bridges for instance) singled out for a media flogging, they start to look distinctly uncomfortable and either fob journalists off with a few pat answers in a desperate attempt to escape as quickly as possible (Guy), or they go on a kind of hysterical and barely coherent offensive, which does rather make them appear slightly unhinged (Bridges).

      A man alone will feel the prick of his conscience every now and then, and when you’re purposefully colluding in behaviour you know to be wrong or unjust, unless you have like-minded individuals to prop up and rationalise your despicable antics, I suspect it starts to feel a little… unpleasant.

      In the words of Sting — “Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one.”

    • STUFF THE POLITICIANS says:
      MARCH 19, 2015 AT 1:53 PM
      Please Martyn, take away that bloody awful photo of that arrogant jerk, he makes me vomit.

      I’ll think you’ll find that is the reason the photo is there. This is not the brown-nose-Key-brigade we are writing for? This is not the MSM who have their lips surgically attached like remoras to the neo-liberal asses. This is the Daily Blog.

      Every person here (except IntrinsicValue and a few paid trolls) want John Key and his vile, callous cabal “gone by lunchtime”.

  3. I don’t think we are that far from the central theme running right throughout The Lord of the Rings.

    Seriously.

    We have the 5 eyes spy network= Mordor.

    We have the sell outs who choose to turn the other way = MSM.

    We have the ones who turned, the dark wizards = ABC’s ,…and the combined efforts to destroy Te Tai Tokerua and the IMP and Hone’s seat.

    We have the mindless Orcs = voters for the neo liberals.

    It will take a power to dislodge this malignant ideology from the land.

    We need an Aragorn.

    Desperately.

  4. What a disgusting, shameful cesspit NZ has become, thanks to the US plant John Key and his depraved, corrupt practices, playing out in government!

  5. Interesting, isn’t it that when children go to school hungry, the parents are blamed, and told it’s their responsibility; end of story.

    But not one of those Denialists who parrot that cop-out will use the same blame-gaming for kids who have been sexually abused. They won’t say, “it’s the parent’s responsibility” and leave children in an abusive situation.

    Shows you how Denialists can turn their backs on a vile social problem – if they think they can get away with it.

  7. Would think a person who had made made massive amounts of money would know the true Intrinsic Value of that money – which is nothing at all…Nothing compared with the spiritual enlightenment you would recieve from helping out your fellow countrymen.
    Who does Jokey donate his PM’s salary too again?
    John Key could be on his moral high horse about how great he is if he donated his salary to some families on the benefit – 400 families given $1000 each at chrismas….but alais

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