Government still hasn’t slashed enough public service jobs – David Seymour
The government has still not slashed enough public service jobs, ACT party leader David Seymour says.
RNZ’s tally shows more than 6000 jobs have already gone, or are set to go – with some ministries yet to reveal how they will meet their savings targets as directed by Public Service Minister Nicola Willis.
I’m not sure fantasising about slashing more public service jobs after 6000 have been cut while the electorate is recoiling in horror at the reality of what allowing ideological stormtroopers from ACT to amputate the State for the sheer glee of it is reading the room very well.
David Seymour attacked ‘Woke Food’ so that no one would notice he was cheapening the free food in schools program to annihilate the 3000 jobs created by making hot food so that he could hand the contract over to one of the bullshit private poverty contractors…
School lunches: Principals disheartened by menu changes, lack of funding for staff
Changed menu ‘disappointing’
Principal of Aorere College in Papatoetoe Lianne Webb said that was not enough for students who relied on lunch as their main or sometimes only meal of the day.
“That is really disappointing because the hot meals are a lot more enjoyable for the students than the sandwich, the sandwich is the least attractive option.”
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…it will be less nutritious food served by a private contractor who gets a sweetheart deal.
Rymans is involved FFS and they are a special kind of evil.
The sweetheart deal David has cut these poverty pirates will also see 10 000 kids at ECE get covered as well, which is fascinating because none of those ECE parents will be getting cheaper early child education fees, he’s just handed an enormous corporate welfare cheque to private education providers and called that a social policy win!
Let’s be clear, Seymour hates feeding kids at school, his libertarian pretensions despise allowing Parents off the hook for feeding their kids, he has been forced into this position because the optics of taking food out of kids mouths while he gives the richest Landlords a $2.9billion tax break is too much for even ZB listeners.
He is downgrading a food system and destabilising it enough to hand the lot over to a private contractors like Rymans.
To gloss over the fact they hadn’t culled the program, ACT felt the need to shit on woke sushi as some sort of petty culture war sick burn on their awfully childish Twitter feed.
Meanwhile, to fund tax cuts for the rich, food banks are being slashed…
2. City Mission warns of halving of food parcels
Auckland City Missioner Helen Robinson took the unusual step on Friday of publicly pleading for the Government not to cut funds for food banks, saying the City Mission would have to slash its annual number of food parcels to 20,000 from 50,000 without the renewal of Covid-era funding.
Here’s the key details (bolding mine):
The government has indicated that in the 2024/25 budget there will be very little funding for provision for food, even after a direct appeal from Auckland City Missioner – Manutaki, Helen Robinson. The only funding that has been confirmed is 3.5% of the Mission’s total spend towards food parcel provision.
Since the onset of COVID, the Mission and other agencies had received support for food, although at a declining rate since 2020.
Now the Mission, and other social agencies, face the prospect of significantly reduced food services resulting in many individuals and families not getting the nourishment they need or deserve.
“Without the support of government, at the Mission we will have to drastically reduce the amount of food we can give families in need from 50,000 food parcels to 20,000 food parcels annually. That is a reduction of over 50% from 1 July of this year,” says Robinson.
“This lack of appropriate Government investment will result in immediate hardship for families already struggling in tough times. We are facing the dire reality of providing 27,000 fewer meals every week for parents and children who will not have enough food to stay physically and mentally well, not enough to go to school or to work, not enough to contribute well to society. It’s a deeply upsetting and concerning prospect.” Auckland City Mission statement
…because we were so angry at Labour, NZ elected a Government without understanding the malice and spite that Government would harvest.
This is what we is now.
This is what we have become.
Motels for homes ,inflation effecting rents and cost of living, wasted money on ego projects all occurred under Labour .The voters were tired of kindness that saw crime go punished and gangscout of control . That is why Labour lost and based on last night’s TV1 poll they continue to lose
Key: live on the street bro, we don’t care.
Adern: let’s put you up in a motel, until we can build you a house
If only Adern had done the second part.
Ardern: we are announcing the launch of a discussion group to come back in six months with proposals on building.
Key: live on the street bro, we don’t care.
Adern: let’s put you up in a motel until National get back in and kicks you back out on the streets, because we need the motels for tourists & don’t have any real solutions.
And what are the current lot doing any differently – yet they poll okay – WTF? The last lot lost because of grudges for the handling of the Covid crisis and the byproducts of this (e.g. inflation) – NOT people living in motels because this happened under Keys watch also. Certainly the incumbants are not short of ego project FFS – e.g. boot camps even though we know they don’t work. So you can take your pathetic argument and shove it!
I have to admit a degree of schadenfreude when it comes to cutting the woke and the fat out of Wellington. These fuckers have been lording over us for the past six years, telling us how to live our lives like the little fascists they are. Now it’s payback time!
Go David!
Does David Seymour have children?
Incels tend not to have kids. Indeed, it would be news if he has ever had a root he did not pay for!
Does van Velden have children?
Remember how the right hated on Helen Clarke for being childless. She was an aunt and did stuff for poor kids.
Act = anti-child
Vast majority of the school lunch providers were private providers, so if the cost goes from $8 to $3, that is a win win. Whether sushi is woke or not is beside the point. Not all children like sandwiches/fruit/sushi/butter chicken etc etc. But we as a country do not have the luxury to fund all variations. That is parents job.
The major issue is we have created 100s & 000s of job in the last couple of years out of the thin air, lot of the times they did not add to any productivity. Money was free flowing which created enormous debt, and enormous wastage. The biggest stupidity was keeping the interest rate low for so long, inflating house prices and making all house owners feel richer, and now all must suffer for decisions made by the reserve bank and the last govt.
Let’s talk about the first part of the headline of this post. Slashing more PS roles.
Historical fact: when NZ had a population of 3.5 million, before 1987, we had 66,000 public servants. That number was halved over the next decade, despite the population growing by half a million.
We now have 5.3 million of us, yet the number of public servants still remains less than 1987 figures.
Is there any wonder no government since 1987 has been able to deliver on election promises? Just who do you think is going to implement policy? Computers? Contractors? Consultants? Yeah right!
Sorry, but like any human enterprise, if you don’t have people to do the work, it doesn’t get done. No amount of wishing, blaming, or whinging will change that fact.
If you want policy delivered, you have to have people, public servants, to do so. If you want infrastructure, you have to have money – taxes – to deliver it.
Solution: set by law a requisite number of public servants proportional to the population. Set realistic tax levels to meet policy desires. It’s not rocket science.
The public servants included telecom, railways & ferry, NZ Post, power supply, bnz, etc etc. Hence, you are comparing apples with oranges.
However, I do agree that govt need to hire more engineers etc, so they don’t have to spend $50m consulting on padestrian bridge.
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