The Government’s latest draconian welfare reforms will cruelly punish Māori the most.
Māori are 15% of the population yet are 36% of all main benefit recipients.
In the Jobseeker benefit Māori represent 39% of recipients, compared to 36% for New Zealand Europeans and for the Sole Parent benefit, Māori account for 48% of recipients, significantly higher than the 29% for New Zealand Europeans.
This all means that the negative punishments built into the Amendments To Social Security Act passed through Parliament will hammer Māori hardest.
The Bill is an abusive piece of legislation specifically designed to make getting welfare far harder while making it easier to punish those needing help.
The punishments are extreme and purposely bureaucratic in the hope that those needing help are either denied or punished.
The ‘Money Management’ scheme takes 50% of welfare payments and forces them onto a card that will make it impossible for them to pay rent and will lead to a dramatic spike in homelessness.
What seems even crueller is that any one punished with a ‘Money Management’ sanction or ‘Community Work Experience’ sanction won’t be eligible for emergency housing or special needs grants.
This won’t help anyone on welfare, it will punish them and it will punish Māori disproportionately.
Everything this Government does seems to harm Māori most and when you consider the sheer scale of anti-Māori and ant-Treaty legislation that this Government is attempting to pass, you really must ask if this is the most anti-Māori Government for at least a century.
To quote from a Stuff article on this nonsense end of last year.
> Under questioning, deputy chief executive Simon MacPherson said case mangers could exercise discretion and choose not to enact sanctions if it could lead to, for instance, homelessness or undue consequences.
Totally meaningless, unless, for example, a genuinely left-wing party promised to investigate any MSD case managers who actually implemented such sanctions and make them unemployed.
> The advice, seen by Stuff, warned the branded payment cards… could be “easily circumvented”. Those using them could buy goods to sell, the advice said.
To ACT’s ghetto merchant voters, this is a positive aspect.
As a non-Maori my observation would be that @ Maori are the only collective to be able to very quickly and ably form a resistance to unhinged neoliberalism which could be justifiably labeled fascism. Neoliberal fascism is polite, clean, well nurtured and evil. Neoliberalism is a disease we were given by a splinter group off the national party headed up by a labour traitor, roger douglas, and now that we all have it we must be kept sick and unable to resist to be exploited in an enduring way. @ Maori could gather together where as we non Maori can’t, couldn’t or wouldn’t to resist.
Instead, @ Maori are subjected to polite fascism which includes racism and poverty to make sure they, Maori, can never gather together the resources necessary to resist the tyranny of debt most of us now live under. ‘Welfare reforms are a means of control. Maori are rendered impoverished then are placed ‘under control’ by poverty.
Generally writing: Farmers = money added to Maori = unity would = a sunrise stampede to the toilet for the useless riche.
While Luxon ” I’m sorted ” makes untaxed capital gains. Those on the breadline get persecuted more to bolster this miserable greed society that we have!
‘ Under questioning, deputy chief executive Simon MacPherson said case managers could exercise discretion and choose not to enact sanctions if it could lead to, for instance, homelessness or undue consequences.’
Well true as that is old boy it does not lead to promotions or advancement.
I mean it would be like a person working for Inland Revenue deciding that although a slumlord with nine houses did not have to pay a lot of tax he bloody well SHOULD and making the bastard pay an extra $7000.00 or so.
IRD superiors would take a dim view of this breach of protocol.
Or someone in the Immigration Department deciding that a wealthy migrant investor is nevertheless an exploiter of his own people and should not be allowed entry( as well as a hefty kick up the arse).
Immigration bosses not happy- instant permanent vacation handed out.
Of course, other countries do this differently. As our friend, Mark, will know, in China local government officials get to decide what the rules are on the spot and administer fees and fines.
For example; in Tianjin I rode in a taxi that struck a pedestrian that suddenly walked out into the street. Fortunately nobody was killed or even seriously injured but the female pedestrian claimed her heart was a aflutter and she needed large amounts of compensation.
Traffic Police told the driver to give her three hundred yuan because he had not stopped in time to prevent hitting someone who walked out without looking.
I had to pay three thousand yuan because – well I was sitting in a taxi and I had told the driver where to go so it was presumably my fault as well ( also foreign bastards have to be taught a lesson for the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion and Korean War).
Mind you – not sure my three thousand yuan travelled any further than the pockets of four Tianjin traffic police.
Cheers to all.
Maori seem to be ALWAYS affected, no matter the law/policy passed.
They will ALWAYS be badly affected as they are at the bottom of the stat list.
They don’t have to be, over generations they have not helped themselves and never arisen to their potential.
Bad life choices keep them down…drugs/alcohol, education is not important and have a terrible diet which leads into bad health, and of course the gangs always there when real employment proves too hard or too much hassle.
Yes coloniser, land thief and bigot im right
Are there any stats on the number of Maori that have a net worth of over $1million ,or who earn over 250k per year or own their own company or have obtained a degree at university .Also could you please inform me what % of the 15% these very successful people is .Then inform me as to what % of white folk have acheived as well .Thank you in advance for that information .
Give back their land and dignity and they will make you look like the second rate turd you are
Nope GW
Even with land back, they are a dying breed/culture/language…..not unlike the Panda Bear, were it not for the generosity of the Chinese government in keeping it from extinction (breeding programs), but the panda is blissfully unaware.
Maori are the same….billions poured into maori language and still a pitiful amount speak it fluently.
Let it die a natural death, or IWI stump up the $$$s to keep it afloat, not NZ non-maori taxpayers.
Racist mongrels like you need to be culled
Yep, Im right, a racist.
Land lord rebates, let it die a natural death, or the Coc stump up the $$$s to keep it afloat, not NZ taxpayers.
yes let the smelter die along with methanex,just two companies kept alive by my taxes .
If we did not separate everything by race people here would not be so casual .Because at the end of every statistic we have a section that hilites how poorly Maori have done .If we removed that last section people would be upset that 10% of kiwis were being fucked over .But we add that last bit on and the rest shrug their shoulders and say ,oh well its only the lazy Maoris that are affected .
Best post ever.
funnily enough maori bludging, blackmail, extortion and corruption hurts NZ the most.
@ trumpet. Yeah, you’re hilarious you dumb cunt.
For the rest of you who are in the company of your own mind, if you don’t know who this guy was, sadly, then check him out.
Gore Vidal.
https://beamafilm.com/watch/gore-vidal-the-united-states-of-amnesia
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism.
WARNING! You’ll need a library card.
@ trumpet. Yeah, you’re hilarious you dumb cunt.
For the rest of you who are in the company of your own mind, if you don’t know who this guy was, sadly, then check him out.
Gore Vidal.
https://beamafilm.com/watch/gore-vidal-the-united-states-of-amnesia
No twentieth-century figure has had a more profound effect on the worlds of literature, film, politics, historical debate, and the culture wars than Gore Vidal. Anchored by intimate one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining portrait of the last lion of the age of American liberalism.
WARNING! You’ll need a library card.
Any evidence dumb trumpet?
so all the white collar crime and tax avoidance by white people is ok .40% OF COMPANIES HAVE NOT PAID TAX THIS YEAR OR gst .pROPERTY DEVELOPERS HAVE JUST BEEN CAUGHT DEFRAUDING NZ TO THE TUNE OF 153 MILLION IN THE LAST 9 MONTH IN THIS FINACIAL YEAR .
yOU ARE WHATS WRONG WITH NZ YO SHIT HEAD
iF YOU ARE AN ANIMAL ,BROWN .OR A WOMAN you have no value in NZ UNDER THIS GOVERNMENT .Add to that ACTS hate for children ,the elderly and infirm ,and working people that leaves a very small number who are seen as valuable
yes let the smelter die along with methanex,just two companies kept alive by my taxes .
In the Maori capital of NZ, Kihipini ( Gisborne), 40 % Maori of 30 odd thousand, though the traffic is ‘bally’ awful despite the smallness. In poor suburb Riverdale myself as a pakeha. So warmly welcomed by Maori over the 18 years I’ve been here in this town — no small thing to me.
i think my stats are out of date re Gisbo.
Fucking over Maori, or NZ. The baton was passed to neoliberalism in 1984. The rich can deliver us — a fair enough concept at the time. The unsaid thing was abandoning the neediest. Or Māori, for another round of battering, which produced the crime and gangs the rich-rulers get a 2nd support for from idiots.
What should be done to raise Maori about of welfare dependence?
The benefits were cut by Shipley to unlivable levels in ’91. To please pricky Pakeha reactionaries. Never ever really restored. Because in neoliberalism/ freemarket/ rich rule upsidedownery the neediest come exactly LAST.