As we righteously poured scorn onto Luxon’s cruelty for attacking disabled young people on welfare comes the news that over 5 years, Labour’s own Government have punished 4000 disabled people on welfare…
Govt sanctions sick jobseekers for failing to prepare for work
The Labour Government has cut the benefits of around 4000 sick, injured of disabled jobseekers in the last five years because they weren’t preparing to return to work fast enough.
…Why you scream in rage, why is Labour just as vile as National when it comes to abusing people on welfare?.
Why has Labour and Carmel Sepeloni betrayed us so badly in treating people like shit?
It’s because the true power is the despicably cruel MSD. You need to understand in NZ poliutcs that the MP is merely a puppet to make you feel that your will is being represented when really it’s a masquerade of democracy run by the neoliberal cultural agendas of the Ministries and you voting provides the mask of legitimacy.
We sanction and punish people on welfare because MSD is a cruel and obtuse department built to be as difficult to get money out of as possible, where the threat of sanction drives vulnerable people into desperation and suicide, that’s the design of the process so that beneficiaries are always in a state of terror and panic.
Labour have done nothing to rid MSD of its toxic culture, fuck MPs being bullied as a distraction, what about the way the State bullies the sick and the vulnerable?
If only we had a Green Party that weren’t completely fucking compromised and hopeless to attack the bureaucracy and Labour for this disgraceful policy!
The State is the biggest abuser of peoples rights in this country.
Labour’s kindness is neo-kindness, it’s the performance of kindness with none of the actual kindness.
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Amazing. Wonder what the queen of kindness thinks of this !
If that is all you have to say Brom then go back to Facebook.
The MPs do not want to know really, plus they realise that there is a big appetite among voters for the ongoing “war on the poor”. But that does not mean the MPs and others do not know about the punitive, sadistic MSD culture–why else was a more generous second tier “COVID Benefit” deployed? so that middle class people would not have to experience the true degradation of dealing with WINZ/MSD case managers and security guards at the door.
Carmel Sepuloni has been well and truly captured by her Ministry. I was involved with the Combined Beneficiaries Union and Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre in the 80s and 90s, and nothing has changed in 2022 to that culture, from DSW to WINZ to MSD. They were filth and remain so. Unfortunately that includes PSA members whose organisation should know better and act, but of course the PSA tops are part of the top level state sector culture too.
How many disabled people faced sanctions? The number includes sick and injured beneficiaries. Maybe some sick people can get better over time, and the injured can heal too?
Everyone is a “Jobseeker” now CC, even if like a friend of mine they are in a wheel chair with one foot amputated! I am not joking. My mate shifted from Auckland to Whangārei with family and asked if everything was ok with his Henderson case manager–yes all cool was the answer.
But when he shifted his benefit was cut off, and he was called in for a meeting to rattle his cage, he was pretty upset that day. He is on regular dialysis and in no way suitable for regular work. He knits hats with his one good hand and a rig, for his Church shop and overviews people’s accounts on an unpaid basis.
We got one of his brothers, a big ex tow truck driver, appointed as his advocate with WINZ for any future dealings.
Shame to hear about your friend’s ordeal, Tiger. I don’t doubt that people can fall foul of the system, it’s just that a lot of us don’t have the anecdotal experiences to know this.
I guess what I was referring to was the emptiness of the linked article. I can see the posturing by the commentators in the article, but no detail to decide whether it’s a case of “dodgy beneficiaries” or “a heartless system”.
Going back in time 1995 I was on a benefit while looking after my wife with cancer. One day my case manager was away when I reported in . Well they gave me another lady that was an ex staff member of mine . She went through my file and pointed out I was being underpaid by thousands of dollars due to extra top up I was entitled to but not informed about . It would seem nothing has improved .
Labour’s kindness is neo-kindness, it’s the performance of kindness with none of the actual kindness.
It’s time to bring that ‘Clayton’s’ word back again – it was used a lot and then has dropped away, but the faux behaviour it was used to describe never has.
When our governments looking after the citizens they represent appropriately and fairly and equitably show they fai,l not caring, Omar Khayam lines go well. The moving finger has gone up in the air and passed beyond us.
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit,
can cancel half a line of it. Omar Khayyam
Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise,
Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise;
Pass, therefore, not today in vain,
For it will never come again. Omar Khayyam
and a couple other:
I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. Albert Einstein
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. John C. Maxwell USA
Clergyman 1947 https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/john-c-maxwell-quotes
Labour have become publicity hounds and like National seem to go for the latest ‘flavour’ to fund, rather than based on need.
Anybody disabled should be the first people in the queue to get quality care from our state, not all the identity based woke and right wing funded ventures such as nearly 3 million from proceeds of crime, to the Gang led ‘rehabilitation’.
Gosh, money really does grow on trees in some growth industries like crime and drugs in NZ!
Likewise pretending all the handouts are to help Maori, the majority of Maori seem to have gone backwards in NZ since being ‘helped’ by the woke and neoliberals who love to help themselves first.
Meanwhile in NZ people in malls, churches or beaches can now face some person deciding to go on a killing rampage.
Not sure how so many people can come to NZ to bludge, then commits terror attacks while NZ authorities spend taxpayer money on helping them in every aspect of their lives for years. Many can claim welfare, charity and legal costs from day 1.
Then NZ organisations complain they have all these worker shortages – no wonder when NZ likes to import so many dysfunctional people and have existing services in NZ, bending over backwards for so many people who just got here recently. The mall terrorist quit his student studies one month after arriving in NZ.
Limited showers, no meal prep: ‘Ruthless’ plans to cut disabled care revealed
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/health/plans-to-cut-care-to-disabled-patients-reveal/
“Health bosses planned to limit showers and meals for the disabled, create long wait lists for specialist care, and refuse help for autistic children as part of a desperate cost-saving bid.”
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