Some 4300 teenagers could have their Jobseeker benefit cut next year, as the Government restricts the payments to “very low income” families.
But along with a crackdown on unemployed youth, the Government is also providing a $1000 incentive for 18 to 24-year-olds who stay off welfare for more than 12 months.
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Social Development Minister Louise Upston made the policy announcement, expected to save the Government $39 million a year, on Sunday.
“The world doesn’t owe you a living and nor, except in limited circumstances, do taxpayers,” Luxon said.
Chris Luxon is so weak he needs to bash teenagers on benefits to look tough.
The public perception of Luxon is irreparably damaged in terms of strength and control over Seymour or Winston and so he needs to butch it up by bashing anyone weaker than himself.
Attacking teens on welfare while his own domestic policies have destroyed the jobs that those teen would go to is such needless spite and malice on behalf of Luxon, look at the job market…
…many of the industries that young people would seek work in have been decimated b y this Government’s policies yet Luxon insolence to blame unemployed teenagers for the economy he has crashed!
Bashing the dirty filthy bennies is a tried and tested National Party culture war game spat out when the economy sours and National need to blame someone.
Many of these teens on independent welfare are there because there has been an enormous falling out between the teenager and their whanau, so expecting estranged families to provide the paper work to gain access to benefits is a manufactured trick to ensure they are disqualified so National can hold up the falling numbers as some sort of policy win when the truth will be that the policy simply takes those on the edge and pushes them off.
This is not how we should be doing welfare, this is a revenge fantasy to gloss over the Government’s own failures in the economy.
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““The world doesn’t owe you a living and nor, except in limited circumstances, do taxpayers,” Luxon said.”
It sure helps if you’re in a position to change the Brightline Test, though, to make yourself a cool $900,000 TAX FREE.
For sure TV
EXACTLY!!
I am truly disgusted that parasites like Luxflake and Seymour can fail to provide adequate employment and then blame teenagers and put the cost on their parents. These are by definition sociopaths.
All three of the Toxic Triumvirate are sociopaths.
Yet another CoC MP, this time NZs PM! What a tosser. How can 18-19 year olds get JOBS THAT DON’T EXIST! It’s a hopeless situation entirely man-made by this stupid, arrogant, corrupt CoC. Anyone who can’t see this has to be stupid to the point of being senile. $65k is not a lot for a family to live on these days – it is pitiful. And offering $1000 to stay off the benefit for a year is disgusting. Luxon can spend 44x that on one lunch. Luxon why not go back to your bunch of wealthy doners and tell them it hasn’t worked out so you can no longer give them the PERKS you promised, or return the doner money! How in the hell did we end up in this horrible, mess – egos and greed? Open your eyes wide, you are deluding yourself and your mindless enablers. Time for this CoC to go as well – on your bikes!
Apparently, there’s loads of jobs. You just have to move to Dargaville and dig up kumara, then you’ll be wealthy and sorted just like Luxon.
National never found someone beneath them they didn’t feel compelled to punch in the face. It’s never their affluent mates who get the stick. It’s always beneficiaries, the disabled, the working poor… anyone without the resources to defend themselves. And they’ve been doing it for decades.
When I was a mischievous young scamp fresh out of school, I remember getting snotty letters from the then Income Support Service under Obersturmbannfuhrer Shipley, telling me to attend a “voluntary” job readiness seminar or have my dole cut. (And yes, they were just as dismal and ineffective as they sound. Did I learn anything useful? Not a damn thing. Well, other than how utterly wretched job readiness seminars were. I did get a participation certificate though, which was slightly less valuable than a roll of Cottonsoft 2-ply.)
It’s nice to see nothing has changed and National are still keen to wheel out reheated proven failure and call it workable policy, all while kicking the most vulnerable in the crotch. Burn the economy to the ground, throw hundreds of people out of work, then point at young folk and screech, “You filthy idlers need to pull your fingers out and get back to work!” Truly, the party of ideas and solutions.
Patrize please stop presenting the truth about our reality, it is such strong medicine that only the strong in the Left can take it and they are already sickening and weakened. Perhaps you could do it in stages. First, comment mild warning to government that truth is about to be spoken. We too will brace ourselves.
Second and third comments can present facts – second the difficulties in getting a job. The third the steps the government has taken that have reduced the jobs. And how much it costs in transport and possibly special clothing and childcare if parents, and demonstrate with the budget of someone on minimum wage.
Then point out that stats show a large number of Kiwis are doing two even three jobs to get by. Send MPs and advisors some samples of this potion – the dried root of a plant grown in Brazil called ipecacuanha. Used judiciously, within guidelines or laws, it can unfreeze a body that is bound with fetters. So that’s the answer, less fetters and fewer fretters. And strangely enough some States in the USA have found they have similar problems to us. Perhaps it is something in the water, or drones are dropping some anti-panacea from above, or perhaps it is a result of strange economic policies that we have ‘bought into’ from the USA. Over there mass and school shootings are occurring and we need to be wary of letting their bad cess get into our bodies.
(Cabinet meeting)
LUXON: How do we claw back even more welfare spending, any ideas, Brooke I’m looking at you?
BROOKE: How about this. We force parents to support their children long after they are eighteen. In fact, they could support them until they get married. And once married, they should of course be supported by their spouce. And eventually when they get old, they should then be supported by their children. I call it, cradle to the grave, no welfare, when we will turn back the clock to pre Michael Savage days, and make NZ great again, cutting the welfare bill down to zero.
I then propose even more cost savings, by shrinking the govt to the point that we put an A.I.chatbot in charge of running the whole country.
And my coup de grâce cost saving, is to shut down all prisons in NZ, since it costs 150k anually per prisoner, and instead deport anyone incarcerated, to Scott Base, where we can put them to work in a jackboot factory. Starting with our own Tim Jago…
LUXON: I like the sounds of that. You’ve done it again Brooke!
Don’t give them ideas.
Well said
The stupidest thing about all of this is Luxon’s ignorance about jobs. “A job” is often not a job that lasts for a year. For example, he talked about Dargaville employers being desperate for young people but it is seasonal ;there is the harvesting season (now closed) and then the planting season which is about three months’ work. In the Primary Industries he mentioned, most are seasonal work. Work on, laid off. Is being employed as a casual a job? Is being employed under a 90 day fire at will contract a job if you get sacked? And a $1k bonus. I just say pffft.
But [ Aotearoa ] New Zealand doesn’t have governance. This, isn’t governance. The use of words becomes a delicate and exacting exercise when discussing, or reporting on, criminals doing criminal shit while abusing the defenceless and the innocent to cover the dirty, meandering tracks of the urban rich while they call what they do to us ‘politics’ Aye Boys?
A very public, royal commission of inquiry up and into our politics and our primary industry please?
If such an inquiry does eventuate then a word of advice. Put the cat outside, place all sharp objects out of reach then lie down on the lounge floor and have a packet of sedatives and a glass of water on standby.
The purpose of this is not really to save government money. It’ll be a smallish amount anyway – and a fair bit of that saving will go in administration costs and mopping up the downstream damage it causes such as homelessness and mental illness. The Ministry’s policy advisors will surely have told them this – so they will know, even if they are ignoring that advice.
No, the real purpose is to lower wages. Desperate kids needing to bring some cash in? That’s a goldmine for business – downward pressure on the minimum wage, then calls for a youth wage that’s lower still. Something that has a ripple upwards effect and puts downward pressure on the wages of desperate graduates coming out of universities, and so on. Those who have the option will consider the Australian bolthole, many won’t have that option. More hollowing out, more short-termist folly.
I have just read the article on RNZ entitled – Jobseeker changes: ‘Punished for economic crisis they didn’t create’! Are Luxon and Upston that stupid – appears so? We have qualified youth coming out of school end of 2025 and he wants them to work in the SEASONAL KUMARA INDUSTRY in Dargaville – WOW that’s a fabulous option F&#@!!! Patently clear to see Luxon is now totally and desperately insane. FGS, how can anyone still be backing this FOOL? He has nothing going for him whatsoever. Luxon is a blithering, bumbling apology for a PM/man. He has to go NOW, NOW, NOW. He is an embarrassing disgrace. These two thicko’s just refuse to grasp the simple facts, there aren’t any jobs and if you can’t get this, I will say it again, THERE AREN’T ANY JOBS!
Spot on point.
This Govt is a Govt of society wreckers.
Then moan when the effects bite them in the ass.
Poor souls must not get their hands dirty by doing manual labour. A young person in work will find it easier to get another job as future employers will be able to get atrue verbal reference. There is a pride in work what ever the job and the quicker it is learnt the better.
Off you go then Trevor, go get your hands dirty.
Go, shift cities leaving your friends, family and support network behind.
For seasonal employment of a few months.
With an employer who will pay and treat you poorly.
Who will shaft your pay rate at every opportunity and claw back your wages by charging you for everything they can think of, transport, accommodation, oxygen.
And enjoy bunking with a dozen other desperate people.
And be stuck in the middle of nowhere when the work ends and there is nothing else until another seasonal job MAY be offered. For another few months of poorly paid work.
Unless you stuck up for your rights as an employee, because then the “network” will label you as a stirrer.
Go on Trev, man up!
You fuckwits on the right are so fond of cherry picking you’ll do well.
Your reply along with most the comments on this page show why the country fell backward u der a Labour government. Cut the apron strings step out into the real world and learn to succeed despite adversity.
I did grow up in a rural area and did exactly that sort of work from my early teens. So I know what I’m talking about.
Unlike you, you utter prick.
Why not cut the crap and admit you want to introduce indentured servitude.
Go and get your hands dirty first you sanctimonious prick. Go on, lead by example, just not the Luxon “example”.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-bay-today/news/orchardists-reject-luxons-claim-sector-is-crying-out-for-workers/YJMJMNKTXJBTRONNKO3EOMEJJE/
And the truth shall set you free Trevor, stop living in Luxon’s fantasy. Falling backwards is a National policy and the one they have the most success with.
The only way for the country to succeed is to vote in a progressive government like Labour after the diabolical destruction of our economy by the National coalition.
Hey Trevor you mouth breathing thumb sucker.
Did you see any of the coverage of this issue today? Or were you busy sticking your head up your ass?
Even the horticulturalists are saying there is no work.
Looks like Luxon played you for the sucker you are. Luxon likes people like you, the chronically challenged by reality crowd.
Now, why don’t you behave like an adult and apologise for being an ignorant swine only capable of regurgitating talking points.
Yes spoken like someone still living in the 80s. Trevor you’d only be happy if slave labour was introduced and those without a silver spoon in their mouths were working in the coal mines of the UK. “I say old chum can I av some more”
‘The world doesn’t owe you a profit’: PM says 4300 wealth sucking parasites will be taxed fairly next year’.
FIFY Mr Cluxon.
Ghost Rob Muldoon: I have just created 4300 jobs to get 4300 kids off the dole. I don’t want high unemployment on my watch.
Chris Luxon: You’re dream’n. Last one to oz turn the lights out.
Hard not to think back to that photo of Thea Muldoon with the Black Power fullas.
Going from a country where the government, even a right wing one, at least made a show of looking out for everyone, even those who might be inclined to cause a little trouble, and tried to find a decent place for them, to one where the two cheeks of the uniparty ass are trying to put together 51% based solely on shitting on the entirety of the rest of the population.
These people make me so depressed I just had a double helping of ice cream .My GP will be unhappy I did that because Im diabetic.I will tell her to take it up with Luxon .
As has been mentioned before, teenagers are being punished for an unemployment and economic crisis they didn’t create. This is on the National party’s coalition of chaos.
Well Luxon is certainly going though old policies in absolute desperation. No doubt he would be raising the paper boy tax too, were paper boys not largely extinguished by the demise of pint media.
I wonder how long he will try to pretend tis untenable tax cuts can stand – $15 billion was it this year? And same again until he can admit his error.
You know, you squander $15 billion here and $15 billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking serious money.
Oh fuck….Let’s just get rid of the bastards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_election
New Zealand
There have been three snap elections, in 1951, 1984 and 2002.
The 1951 snap election occurred immediately after the 1951 waterfront dispute, in which the National Party government sided with shipping companies against a militant union, while the Labour opposition equivocated and thus annoyed both sides. The government was returned with an increased majority.[28]
The 1984 snap election occurred during a term in which the National Party government had a majority of only one seat. Prime Minister Robert Muldoon lost patience with his less obedient MPs and called an election, announcing it on television while visibly drunk.[29] Muldoon’s government subsequently lost and the Labour Party took power.[30]
The 2002 election. On 12 June 2002 the Labour Party Prime Minister Helen Clark announced that the country would have a general election on 27 July 2002. Clark claimed that an early poll was necessary due to the collapse of her junior coalition partner, the Alliance, but denied it was a snap election. This early election caused considerable comment. Critics claimed that Clark could have continued to govern, and that the early election was called to take advantage of Labour’s strong position in the polls.[31] The National Party was caught unprepared by the election and suffered its worst ever result (20.9% of the party vote), and the government was returned with an increased majority.[32]
Maybe this would be a better idea…
The Reserve Powers
In a very few instances, the Governor-General may exercise a degree of personal discretion, under what are known as the “reserve powers.”
Other reserve powers are to dismiss a Prime Minister, to force a dissolution of Parliament and call new elections, to refuse a Prime Minister’s request for an election, and to refuse assent to legislation.
https://gg.govt.nz/office-governor-general/roles-and-functions-governor-general/constitutional-role/reserve-powers
Honestly, these fuckers have to go. They’re not only useless, time and money wasting arse holes but they’re boring and ugly too.
Lets just get rid of the fuckers. We can do it and we should.
It’s actually sad that this is the caliber of political leadership we have in this country. Petty and irrelevant culture war hot button talking points as policy. How much time and wasted tax payer money was spent to come up with this economically irrelevant policy? This will do nothing to address rising unemployment and ongoing contraction in the private sector.
Picking on a handful of young and potentially vulnerable beneficiaries so that Mike Hosking and Duncan Garner have something to talk about. This is a low point for this government demonstrating how bereft of intellectual and economic heft they really are. How trivial, petty and cruel can you get. This is disgusting policy every way you look at it.
This is also picking on their parents. People in the 18 to 24 year old age bracket, especially those of the male variety, need quite a bit of feeding. No doubt the RWNJs would sneer “don’t breed ’em if you can’t feed ’em” but it’s a bit late to say that when the children are full-grown, isn’t it?
Yes and how did the parent know 18 years ago these shit heads would destroy the economy and NZ .
At 18 you are legally responsible for yourself. WTF does this government get off asking their parents to support their 18+ offspring?
Tying 18+ people to their parents financially risks causing resentment on both sides. Oh well, if they are cross with each other maybe they will forget to be cross with Luxflakes?
It’s a trap! This takes effect after the next election so Labour, if they take the bait, can campaign against it, meaning National can point at them for caring more about lazy budgets, than hardworking citizens, knowing those affected by this are unlikely to vote for National and National voters love a good beneficiaries kicking almost as much as the love a tax cut.
Laziness did I hear on Radionz news?
FFS – I met Upston once – thick as 2 planks of wood and as blind to the real world as a limpet
There are new nursing graduates in this age group who can’t get nursing jobs will they be expected to go up north and dig kumera ??????
Luxon BULLIES young Kiwis for not doing the jobs that HE HAS DESTROYED!
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2025/10/06/chris-luxon-so-weak-he-has-to-bash-teenage-beneficiaries-and-pretend-thats-tough-love/
If they are going to do introduce this policy, then they need to mean tests the pension oh! they can’t do that winstone might have a hernia.
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