The political desperation driving National’s counter productive Military Boot Camp nonsense is the real story here.
Despite Labour having a terrible time with posCovid pain and economic anguish, National simply aren’t capitalising on the animosity towards Jacinda and keep floundering because Luxon’s inauthenticity can’t bridge the gap to middle voters.
Luxon has the David Shearer curse, in that you can see him telling you what you want to hear.
The reason National tried to pretend he was in Te Puke and not at his Hawaiian holiday home was because they knew the juxtaposition of Luxon sympathising with the cost of living pain while on holiday in Hawaii would be politically damaging.
People want solutions and answers to their fears and pain during a once in a century pandemic, what they get from Luxon is endless u-turns as his team work out what is most driving the news media.
Military Boot camps are counter productive, National know this, but they also know they can appeal to anger from endless media coverage of ram raids.
It’s ironic in the extreme that these ram raiding kids are the legacy of John Key’s draconian welfare policies, these are the kids kicked out of State Homes using false meth standards, these are the kids who were living in cars, these were the kids whose parents were incarcerated in our private prison industry.
To now compound their damage with even more draconian punishments is the exact stupid knee jerk social policy that we had all hoped we had left behind!
If you think military boot camps are the solution, comrade, you are the problem.
Putting ankle bracelets on 10 year old children is an obscenity, it is not a way to prevent more crime.
These damaged troubled children require well funded facilities and resourcing to over come their damage, forcing them to attend boot camps and ankle bracelets will only ensure they become even angrier and more resentful towards a society that stopped caring about them.
We are a better people than National are trying to sell us.
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White collar criminal s should attend the boot camps as well. Plus our very worst school teachers.
Go to the average local bowling club and see if “military boot camps are counter productive.”
My pick is that today (and yesterday) boot camps would be the flavour of the month. By election time they won’t necessarily be but they would have been another little nail hammered into the hull of the Labour waka.
These damaged troubled young people deserve to look forward to a future of abundance not one of guaranteed scarcity where they will literally be fleeced for basic survival. And give me a break with this clown Luxon doing an improve performance at McDonald’s as if this is a fucking career option for young people to look forward to. It would be laughable if it was not so revoltingly horrifying.
If you had ever been in a position to hirer staff you would know that time spent at McDonald’s is a plus on a CV.They are well trained and taught hygiene. For most it is a great stepping stone but for a few it can lead to a secure and we’ll paid job .They usually promote in house so there is a great oppetunity . The same applies for KFC .
Luxon’s planned boot camp if resourced properly could be a game changer but the problem is after awhile Wellington buracrats get involved and try to make a name for themselves by cutting costs .This is happening at the moment with Maori teachers.
A CV? A CV to go where? A stepping stone, to what a $25.00 block of crappy cheese? Get real, and I am not against young people boot camp or discipline, I worked at 15 selling Kirby vacuums, which by the way is better for everyone than McDonald’s which is bad for the entire worlds health and causes obesity and diabetes. The burgers can be left in a car for three month and not even maggots or mold will go near it! You want to know how much money I made in high school? $200 American dollars a week, and this was in the 1980’s. You want to know why I liked to work all the time, because I made money, and I could plan a future of owning a car, taking trips having lovers and friends – you know doing things and going places…Everything that has been stolen from this generation. And not one joker politician cares about that.
I see Labour as the sealers because they seem to think they know better how to run your life but seem to hate successful people .Whereas National encourage growth
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