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I hate NZ. I got a measly 2% payrise in April and a 10% rent increase yesterday that kicks in right after Xmas. Merry fucking Christmas to all the scum sucking landlords everywhere. I hope you all die a miserable death.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/478468/court-rules-man-must-keep-paying-stepdaughter-s-24-000-school-fees-despite-splitting-from-her-mother
Gosh life is unfair to the hedonistic wealthy.
Now I remember an unfair thing from about Jenny Shipley’s reign. A sole mother and her male friend tried living together to see if they could team up happily and permanently as a couple. They didn’t feel that it would work after a few months and split. But the welfare authorities had tagged her as living in a relationship akin to marriage, and decided to permanently classify her as wife and him husband. When she applied to send her daughter to university the PTB declared him a parent responsible for the child and liable for the fees , and demanded his financial information. before university entry would be considered.
That was a case deserving question of fairness more than the above. It is also an example of the state interfering in family formation and stability, and that punitive attitude diminishes life for women trying to manage ther lives, and find a suitable partner to build a good, stable lasting relationship.i
and another way that the state is interfering in the formation of people’s lives. This time in the school system of education which is a major part to entry into society as an individual citizen supporting themself in a job and able to mix with his or her peers as am equal.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/478452/horrible-experience-parents-angry-over-no-resolution-as-school-excludes-autistic-son-from-classes
Parents Leon and Haylee McDonald said they were frustrated the Education Ministry was unable to order Woodville School to let the boy resume classes.
They told RNZ their son attended the school for two half-days in October before the school said he could no longer attend because he twice ran out of the school on to a road.
The McDonalds said the school told them their son could not return until a secure fence was completed, which might not happen until February.
They said the boy had a teacher aide, funded by the Education Ministry for 28.5 hours a week, which was almost the entire school day, and the school had plenty of time and help to prepare for their son’s arrival.
This fantastic idea of one size fits all isn’t working; it is not good for disabled children to be pushed full-time into ordinary schools so they can be integrated into society. The service to general society is diminished, and the special needs child has diminished conditions also which expensive individual teachers are expected to meet.
The state has decided not to provide individual help to children with disabilities and push them onto ordinary schools as a cheaper option and has to itself learn to do more with less. It is a social experiment and coping with this and the difficult environment alreay pervading is proving too difficult. The education system is already trying to cope with children whose lifestyles are full of poverty of all sorts, and they are already struggling.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2211/S00221/rare-kiwi-threatened-by-illegal-pig-release.htm
I think that most thinking people except me have already realised that there is a large group of males in NZ who are hardly socialised even civilised. They like getting out in the garden-sheds- on-wheels or humvee type vehicles, and I think Mitsibushi were even showing tv ads of them driving up rivers and so destroying the water system for fishand spreading weeds. They can be shocked that people are critical of a shooter who kills a person at one of the huts cleaning their teeth outside at night – I thought she was a deer. No concern even though there was a law or rule against shooting in that area. Feral against feral?
Now releasing pigs no doubt for hunting.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK2211/S00221/rare-kiwi-threatened-by-illegal-pig-release.htm
Why I despise The Standard, it’s run by a neolib and he disallows my voice there. Roge Douglas was disproved many a day ago. It’s un-understandable. It amounts to disproval of their and Labour’s legitimacy. And you Left small businesses won’t stick up for me and social democracy. What do we have but the union of the people? Of course your small businesses can go on without that or any central reality.