Just appreciate the cruelty of this Government towards the beneficiaries and the disabled…
All in 5 working days. This isn’t welfare, it’s a punishment system designed to trip beneficiaries up so they can be disqualified from welfare.
Oh and look at this…
…the private corporation who will be wheeled in to cut benefits can direct you to do anything.
All Louise Upston needed after that draconian welfare penalty announcement was a Coat and 101 Dalmatians.
Effectively if you fart, they throw you off welfare.
This is what our social policy has become, a culture war revenge fantasy that is focused around punishment, sanctions and making getting welfare almost impossible, how the fuck does throwing 50 000 beneficiaries off welfare into a rising unemployment rate anything other than social malice?
Intellectually it is total hypocrisy from ACT.
ACT is the freedom and small government party, yet their desire to micromanage what the poor can buy with their welfare is Nanny State on meth!
Micromanaging beneficiaries on what they can and can’t buy?
Why do beneficiaries require mass surveillance while gun owners get a Gun lobbyist to camouflage their interests?
Why is the small government freedom party sitting like a ghoul on the shoulders of the poor?
They now want to punish beneficiaries who have children.
That is what NZ elected, that level of spite is who we are now.
At some stage,Kiwis need to take a hard long look at themselves for the far right climate denying racist beneficiary bashing Government they elected, all because a bitter post-Covid electorate hated Jacinda for having the temerity to save 20 000 lives during a once in a century pandemic.
We have mutated into something very ugly under this new Government while the rich laugh at how easily the angry voters were manipulated into giving them what they want.
“They now want to punish beneficiaries who have children.”
The curent birthrate has dropped from 1.6 to 1.5 births per mother.
The govt should be encouraging anyone it can to have children.
Heh, meanwhile Māori birth rate is at replacement level, and the majority of Māori are under 40, so they will soon be well over the 20% of population mark–how will all the Natzo bashers like that…
Also apparently there are now a million NZers aged 65 plus, so all sitting on National Super and winter heat payments, while unemployed get a vindictive clamp down.
Children born into families on the benefit are likely born I to poverty and will likely stay there and cause another round in years to come. Couples should be encouraged to hold off on family till they have their actions sorted.
Another in the line up of ugly horrid mothers that become ministers then set about destroying the lives of women and children .Start at Richardson and Shipley then Bennett and now Willis ,Upston and Chour .
They have this in the UK – you only receive benefit for up to 2 of your children – “the two child benefit cap” as it’s affectionately known. So far the new UK Labour government have refused to remove the cap.
How many husbands has Upston been through?
the question is how many luckily escaped her wicked clutches .I bet she took them all too the cleaners
Good comment Tiger.
I have been wondering why they don’t make part of all pension and benefit payments in food vouchers like they are going to do with jobseekers.
They could make it to say 80% of whatever you are entitled to and the rest could be put in your account so you can get a couple of litres of petrol or visit the doctor or get a library book.
If they did a deal between Pak n Sav or Seymours lunch company they could probably get cut rates as well and be able to reduce payments even further.
I’m sure Winston or Gerry Brownlee wouldn’t mind going to Pak n Save to get their groceries.
You would have to make it so only the pensioners or beneficiaries could spend the vouchers. Wouldn’t want Seymour being able to use his mothers.
I dont have a pak n slave in my area and we pay extra because we have one supermarket and pay the new regional charges which are about an extra 20%
Shouldn’t the question be how many husbands have been through Upston
heh, you have a way with words Uncle…
not many would have to be fucken desperate .Mind you some people will screw anything that moves
Gordon, I agree that these current and previous ministers, amongst other politicians on the Right, have implemented cruel, socio-economically destructive policies. I presume your descriptive comments refer to their values and personalities. Personal comments about people’s physical characteristics detract from valid observations, and give the Coalition’s supporters opportunities to deflect justified criticism of the policies with personal attacks in response.
Clearly the Government has enacted policies which appeal to supporters’ resentment of minority groups, by targeting and scapegoating Maori, beneficiaries and other vulnerable NZers, and consequently dividing society. Many Government MPs and their supporters present as smug, arrogant, cynical bullies, lacking in empathy, honesty and integrity.
Some MSD/WINZ branches do not allow use of toilets! They have security guards grunting away like bouncers, open plan offices with little privacy, it can be like entering a police station rear entrance.
Case Managers are passive aggressive or openly aggressive and judgemental. Their job is to shame, humiliate and deny you your legal entitlements–and lose previously supplied documents and information…and deny previous conversations and undertakings…
5 Days is ridiculous given the dire straights unemployed can be in with no bus fare, petrol or phone data.
This clampdown by the filthy Govt. backed by too many in the community it seems, is to push people off already miserable levels of welfare into abject poverty so they can adjust the figures to their satisfaction. Surveys have shown that most Natzo voters do not even know a beneficiary–heh, apart from their mates on National Super of course…
We need a new Unemployed Workers Rights Movement because the numbers are only going to rise.
… and yet the polls show voters appear content with the status quo. I guess the old adage, “if it doesn’t affect me I have no interest” is to the fore here … or is it simply as you suggest Martyn … a culture war revenge fantasy that is focused around punishment, sanctions and making getting welfare almost impossible. Probably a little of both, neither of which is indicative of a decent society. Feels more like a slow flush than a hand up!
Bob, if a ministry of works, ministry of forestry, govt owned and managed rail, sea and land transport were reinstated then we would have no unemployment. NZ had it in the past and we can have it again, we just need to ditch this neoliberalism on steroids that treats people like pawns on a monopoly board.
Agree, and return power generation and supply to full public ownership, NZ owned and run coastal shipping would be good too to help get around the crap roads we have at the moment.
I recall a short story from high school called The Lottery by Shirly Jackson – it has stayed with me because it was so shocking and in-explicable. Observing and following politics and economics for over 20 years I now understand this story and it’s pointless horror. Here is the basic plot summary from Wikipedia:
“A contemporary small-town undertaking an annual rite known as “the lottery”. In this small, unnamed village of about 300 residents are in an excited yet nervous mood. Children pile up stones as the adults assemble for the annual event, practiced to ensure a good harvest.
The lottery preparations start the night before, with coal merchant Mr. Summers and postmaster Mr. Graves drawing up a list of all the extended families in town and preparing one paper slip per family. The slips are folded and placed in an age-stained black wooden box which is stored in a safe at Mr. Summers’ office until the lottery is scheduled to begin.
The initial drawing takes place to choose one family. There is a sense of relief in those not chosen and in one case a family member is sent to pass word to their injured father that their family was not picked. Bill Hutchinson draws the only marked slip in the box, and his wife Tessie complains that he was rushed into making his choice. Since their family consists of only one household, the second drawing to choose a household is skipped.
For the final drawing, one slip is placed in the box for each member of the Hutchinson household: Bill, Tessie, and each of their three children. Each of the five draws a slip, and Tessie gets the marked one. The townspeople, including Tessie’s son Davy, pick up the gathered stones and begin throwing them at her as Tessie screams about the unfairness of the lottery.”
Interesting post.
Expect more shotgun killings in WINZ offices (Now ring the cops- I just made an inflammatory statement).
sadly I expect you may be correct .
A Person goes into an Otago Winz office wanting help with getting better accomodation. The person is getting on in years, jobless, homeless, and have a degenerative bone condition. They live in a tent, with no electricity or bathroom, socially isolated, in a riverbed, in the cold Otago winter. The state cannot lift a finger to help them.
The person later returns and goes beserk with a shotgun, and the state cannot act fast enough to incarcerate them, where they will get a warm bed, heating, showers, TV, library books, courses, companionship, medical and pastoral care, and three meals a day?
As a result, the state now employs 1 or 2 or 3 security guards at Winz offices across the country, at a total cost that would far exceed what it would have cost, to have originally helped the person living in the Otago riverbed, but is now incarcerated at an annual cost of 150-200K per prisoner.
All I know is that with such upside down values nowadays, the Winz office shooter, will be released from prison sooner than Mr Dotcom will be freed.
No wonder all the winz staff are at the back sucking down hard on their vapes.
what a bunch of sadistic cucks
To early yet, to get into, the Taupo slasher.
What deal, what responsible deal, we have. What deal our responsible deal, has with your corporate deal, of who educated to say, you, have to produce to be part off our being.
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