ACT bash drug addicts and mentally ill – this isn’t a welfare policy, it’s a right wing revenge fantasy!

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Martyn Bradbury
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NZ election 2023 live: ACT announces welfare policy, targets drug addicts and mentally ill

The ACT Party has released its welfare policy today, which calls for benefits to be taken off people who can’t work due to drug addiction or mental illness and aren’t seeking support.

ACT are slipping in the Polls, so they do what the Right does best – bash the dirty filthy bennies!

Targeting drug addicts and the mentally ill is so on brand for ACTs petty fascism, what the play is privatisation of welfare.

Private welfare companies will be brought in to take contracts and they get bonuses from either transitioning the mentally ill and drug addicts into work or cut them off welfare altogether for breaking some bullshit rule they invent.

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This is welfare privatisation using drug addicts and the mentally ill as the punching bag.

Once established they will come after solo parents, the unemployed and the disabled with the same cruelty.

This is where we are in the election cycle right now, beating up on drug addicts and the mentally ill.

This is what we is, this is what we are.

This isn’t a welfare policy, it’s a fucking right wing revenge fantasy.

If National and ACT really get in to do cruel shit like this, we will be a lesser, nastier more spiteful nation.

 

 

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31 COMMENTS

  1. Problem is far greater – NZ has become the place to go for criminals, drug smugglers and money launderers – part of this is that there is government money coming in each week, to keep their addictions going and part of it is that NZ government and justices and immigration seems to think these crimes are small and meaningless.

    NZ needs to stop our growing drug community, at source by going after the drug smugglers and the money launderers that keep criminal gangs including drug dealers going and keep new crims and their workforce out of NZ.

    NZ is sending the opposite message with people laundering millions of dollars in illegal money here, once caught and convicted, practically zero consequences.

    I’d hate to be a police officer on this case and find out that the people convicted get a slap on the wrist in their luxury abodes here in NZ, while Kiwi taxpayers on low wages living pay their court, police and justice costs. Justice sucks in NZ.

    Operation Martinez: Auckland money launderers walk free from court after $123m in cash deposits
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/operation-martinez-auckland-money-launderers-walk-free-from-court-after-123m-in-cash-deposits/ZXZG4SNILFFSXLP4SWX7ZE6XNE/

    Could that immigration don’t care about criminal convictions for new residents, and a cat can be a reference for new arrivals be part of the problem?
    Shambles of our visa regime: Immigration staff reveal their truth
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/immigration/132853434/shambles-of-our-visa-regime-immigration-staff-reveal-their-truth

    New recruitment campaign for immigration although I suspect it has already gone viral,

    Are you a criminal, mentally ill or have major health issues and want new pastures for others who work honestly, to support your lifestyle? Will no other country have you and you need a quick escape from past problems?

    Come to NZ!!!!! We want your bum on our seat and your problems to be paid for from our citizens and growing government debts!!!!

  3. I was thinking that New Zealand should introduce these types of policies against politicians and public servants, people like Seymour who for decades have drawn down the largest dole benefits in the country while producing nothing for society. These lazy hypocrites are actually a detriment to communities, attacking the very people they want to serve so badly, with their grandiose speeches, hollow promises and fantasies about spending everyone else’s taxes. Someone talking this rubbish about the most vulnerable should be in psych care, not running for office.

  4. Seymour Butt is not a particularly nice person a nephew of Roger the Rat and Dick Prebble.

    He is Ideologically Driven and has No Real World Experience IMHO.

  6. Ask the people of the Hokianga about the PEP scheme that was implemented in the 1980s. You were either on the scheme or you didn’t get the dole. People that had never worked got sone dignity and a reason to get out of bed and the community thrived. Yes it was inefficient, yes it was beneficiary bashing. It worked though.

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