Aloha Luxon sells the crack of the whip by promising welfare privatization more extreme than ACT
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
Herman Melville
TDB has been warning since Luxon became leader that he was planning to privatise welfare.
He was already singing Bill English’s Social Investment model which spawned Oranga Tamariki when he became leader, he then went to a UK Right Wing Think Tank who specialise in privatising social services to gave a speech and now right when NZ has one of the lowest unemployment rates ever, Luxon targets the weakest group to bully and just puts the boot in.
He is selling the crack of the whip by constantly repeating the use of sanctions to cut welfare.
He’s whining up resentment of young people on welfare despite not being aware the numbers he’s attacking include ill, sick and disabled youth.
He’s threatening welfare sanctions on the disabled, the ill and the sick.
That’s the kind of needless spite masquerading as tough love that get National Party supporters sexually aroused.
They love this shit. The more punitive, the better.
It doesn’t matter if it’s counter productive, in fact the MORE counter productive, the more excited National Party voters get.
Remember the State House Meth scam?
National used false science to breach Housing NZs own regulations to throw State Tenants out on the street. In the middle of a housing crisis, National created a homelessness crisis by throwing hundreds of State Tenants onto the streets for false Meth harm contamination readings.
No one got sacked, no one was punished, fuck it, Paula Bennett who was the Minister responsible gets to play charades on fucking TVNZ now!
For National supporters, when it comes to social policy, all that matters is that someone they hate suffers, regardless of the cost and regardless of the counter productivity of it all.
We-make-people-we-hate-suffer-no-matter-the-cost is actually right wing dogma.
Here’s how it works.
National will take $50million from MSD, give it to 3rd party contractors who will get a bonus by removing people off the list.
The 2 ways those young people get off the list is if they get a job OR they are sanctioned off the list.
You can all see the game being played here.
Taxpayer money to 3rd party contractors who get paid when they find them a job or they are cut off welfare.
National want to drive sick people back to work, that’s how this country will lead into the future???
This sort of bullshit shouldn’t be allowed to fly when there is so much academic research that this draconian welfare approach doesn’t work!
Pretending that bashing young people on welfare is the solution to rebuilding from covid or is a way to combat poverty or inequality or the housing crisis is just such inane bullshit!
Using the excitement of the crack of the whip to smuggle through a vast privatisation of welfare agenda is going to spook the centre all the way back to Jacinda.
National trying to out ACT ACT on welfare privatisation is just too extreme for the electorate.
I think this is a terrible strategic blunder for National, they aren’t seeing how this is a demographic battle they can’t win while giving all those young people a reason to vote against National in 2023.
This was a dumb move by Luxon.
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Pretty bewildering for those who agree with Melville, or know his truth having lived both sides of what he says for any length of time. We’ve got LINO and this crap to choose from. Your fundamentally divisive agenda to choose from. Time for something new.
Privatising welfare? Be that the case, health is definitely going the same way. Prisons definitely and probably child services. Luxons logic, it’s your job to take care of you!
If only Labour weren’t so useless, National wouldn’t stand a shit show!
they tried it with prisons, and it was an absolute failure.
X-ray. Health has been going the same way for a while now. We’re still fairly ok in emergencies, or car smash-ups, but some specific services have been abolished, or no longer exist, or have been flogged off to the now-obsolete PHO’s. Don’t forget that that Saint Bill English wanted to introduce an overnight stay of $50 a night in public hospitals. That would have broken the parents of kiddies with bronchiolitis admitted every winter; the RSV virus has also been overloading neonatal and paediatric wards. The temperature’s beneath zero in my little hallway tonight, and I imagine it’s rather worse for folk sleeping in cars and under bridges. Hard to heat a car or a riverbank. Hard to heat a home with rapacious electricity costs.
All a bit more bullshit from Aloha Loafer Luxon.
He wouldn’t know what a decent days work is.
Yes a dumb move by a dumb wanna be PM. Having worked in the area of Hauora (who are currently already doing this mahi and have done so for a very long time) and NZ has already been there and done that under National this is a giant step back into the past. Also Luxons’ use of words shows he’s not suitable to be our PM s when he say things like powering up, it sounds like he is talking about an airplane not people. And he refers to those on welfare as there will be,’ no free ride’ someone needs to clip his wings or ground his plane so to speak.
The ‘war on the poor’ has not ceased in 40 years–Roger Douglas traitorous 1984 lot swung a wrecking ball through NZ on behalf of capital and then blamed the thousands of sacked manufacturing and infrastructure workers for their own plight while never retraining or looking after any of the discarded.
Helen Clark had her “Jobs Jolt” where beneficiaries were cut off if they moved back to provincial or hapu areas from a city, Ruth Richardson had the MOAB benefit slash–which officials warned her reduced payments to below what was needed for adequate nutrition! but she bloody went ahead anyway, and those cuts have never been proportionally reinstated to this day. So Bomber is correct–natzos really enjoy putting the slipper into dirty filthy bennies.
MSD/WINZ has ruined thousands of working class peoples credit ratings and established huge debts for emergency housing and grants for food and dental–the least we can do in this country surely is feed everyone, but no, not as far as MSD is concerned.
Paula Bennett was mentored by arch neo lib Paula Rebstock, (a women into small Govt. but happy to take $3000 per diem from the NZ taxpayer for consultancy and inquiries), and sent to the USA to study the draconian Wisconsin Model, and she certainly got the message of how to punitively treat NZ beneficiaries.
So Baldrick needs to be slapped down immediately for joining in this trail of shit and punishment on NZ’s vulnerable. The only problem is much of the Labour Caucus probably supports him!
I think they all go to the same “church”, ahem..
A few minutes ago I read about a Chief Executive of Te Pukenga, the failing polytechnic collective, getting paid $700k for peddling his failed business model and running the polytechs into the ground. And young people starting out in life are the problem here? This is the game, people with no power or responsibility or experience or finances are blamed for everything, whereas these entitled chumps in power suits fail time and again and are lauded for their hard work and courage. These executive ‘chiefs’ and their enablers are the kernel of the problem, they are a waste of taxpayer money and worse they try to justify their existence with their ridiculous bureaucratic pantomime while thieving public resources right out in the open, giving the plum jobs and access to their own kind and projecting any incompetence or wrongdoing onto others.
That reminds me Ethan of the failed computer set ups around the country, millions spent and the manager of it all is too big to fail apparently. Anyway the ones I’ve read of may get the bums rush but with a pocketful of readies. I remember one from Dunedin and the word Swan and $6 million? I’ll check on google and see what I come up with…
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/it-costs-fell-after-swann-sacking
8/8/2022 https://www.odt.co.nz/tag/michael-swann – Michael Swann has left prison today a free man, albeit one with a $6 million pecuniary order.
Another facet that you refer to is ‘failed business model’. I feel that some people come with a business model which they sell as a great idea, and they get the job because they have the expertise to instal some new procedure or practice used or trialled overseas.
Then there is that cocksure woman Joane Harrison’ from the UK who diddled a number of central and local government entities here and got jailed for a short time, and brought the Auditor-General into disrepute, then went back to UK and changed her name and I think is back in the spa pool of management again.
While working as a manager for the Ministry of Transport, Harrison defrauded it of more than $700,000 and was sentenced to three years and seven months’ jail in early 2017.18/10/2021
Police lose case to stop fraudster Joanne Harrison keeping …
https://www.stuff.co.nz › national › crime › police-lose-ca…\
Auditor-General resigns over fraud investigation | RNZ News
https://www.rnz.co.nz › news › political › auditor-general..
3/08/2017 — Auditor-General Martin Matthews has resigned due to a critical report into his handling of a major fraud case when he led the Transport Ministry .
‘Harrison’s’ past frauds: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/stuff-circuit/300034751/she-made-our-lives-hell-transport-ministry-fraudster-joanne-harrisons-former-inlaw-says-exposure-long-overdue
Big money spent but not big, good outcomes – just the opposite. So plenty of room to play in if you know how and you’re in management or consultancy.
when these guys all drink the same 20 year old scotch, in the same bars, and know all the “right” people, there is only failing up as an option to life.
Agreed standalone, yet another example of the right wing Key neoliberalism National party having promoted corporate shareholder corruption.
Ethan Woke. Some years ago I worked as a consultant evaluating a specific polytech’s courses. Time after time we found that employers, eg Conservation Dept, deemed certain courses as not meeting their requirements, they wanted higher level tertiary qualifications. Polytech students going into debt via student loans don’t know thus, and whether university courses are now of sufficiently high level I don’t know. Obviously some must be, but globally universities seem to be struggling with their own raison d’etre. What particularly irked me was older mature students, unemployed or semi-employed, trying to upskill at their own expense, and while acquiring valuable knowledge, not necessarily improving their employment prospects.
This wasn’t a dumb move by Luxon. Well, it was dumb because it is patently dumb but out isn’t dumb in that it will get the dumb Nat supporters and right wingers all excited.
All it will need now to get them really orgasmic is to have other dumb person, like Mark Mitchell, to say they’re going to build more prisons to fill with people on welfare who aren’t disabled.
Right wingers all excited…read below.
With Luxon at the helm I can vote National as they can only be an improvement on our current leaders who are taking us nowhere except down . That said I am not impressed by the way he has pushed his young people work scheme as his number one cause. It is important and certainly needs attention but I would have like to hear National were going to move heaven and earth to take 180000 children out of poverty and save the coutry from another 10 years of gang growth / ram raids / teenage pregnancy / drug abuse and a continuous stream of prison growth with its cost and waste of human potential. If I thought this would happen under Labour I would hold my nose and vote for them in but I feel I could not believe any promises they made now .
a very very sad policy
The benefit rules Luxon is complaining about havent changed since the Nats were last in power. Says a lot about the Nats, but even more about Labour.
Luxon’s the fall guy. He’s been paid to be. I’m not sweating. This shit just doesn’t fly with the young voters of age and coming of age. Have you heard NATs latest candidate in Tauranga committed greivious bodily harm, at age 16 to a 13 year old boy? Uffindel. Article us on Stuff. Bullies, the lot of them. They’ll fall off
The Lex Luthor of lies, the Marquis of Avarice, put the boot in, chainsaw Chris Luxon, loves punching down on the more vulnerable, be they the bottomfeeders on minimum wage, or unemployed youth, but now Tauranga anti violence and law and order MP Sam Uffindell, has a literal track record of punching down on the vulnerable, when it turns out he was expelled from school for doing exactly that, beating up a smaller child with wooden club… nice one Sam! Who will the next National candidate be… the beast of Blenheim, or one of the broomstick boys perhaps?
ps – Red have got the cred, while Blue is in the poo.