Bribing the homeless to leave, punishing the poor with P – Why we need a Political Revolution
What a cruel joke of a week. Every day that passes, the compassionate society I believe in seems to be mutilated further by a passionless people who through comfort and self profit don’t just don’t give a damn and seem gleeful and no longer needing to pretend they care.
Paula Bennett’s sick offer to move the homeless out of Auckland for $5000 and pay the poor workers of the regions $3000 to move to Auckland just says it all doesn’t it? Apparently exploitable workers are a better investment in Auckland than the homeless.
So where exactly are those poor supposed to go? There are 74 ‘No Go Zones’ in NZ. Move to any of these designated areas and you will lose access to social welfare. How do the homeless know if the region they move to disqualifies them from welfare – or is that a new plan by Paula to lower the number of beneficiaries by simply bribing the poor and disqualifying them when they move to a No Go Zone?
Key tells the Homeless to go to WINZ and that they’ll get help. What he doesn’t add is that ‘help’ is being booked into expensive motels and landed with a $70 000 debt.
We have a housing policy that says if a state house is tested for P and fails the test, those people are banned from Housing NZ homes for a year. Apart from state homes that have actually had a meth cook in them, simply having smoked P in a room won’t have the nightmare health hazards that have been sold to us. So using a positive test for P, which may have been from a previous tenant or guest, to ban people from state homes effectively is a means of creating more homeless.
The bloody housing policy generates homelessness!
60% of beneficiaries on solo parent and job seeker benefits owe WINZ money, half the fucking surplus in this years budget is debt owed by the poor!
The day when the agencies supposed to help the poor end up being loan sharks to them is the day that we need a political revolution to change things.
It is unacceptable that the power of the state be malformed into feudalism. It is unacceptable that public services be so underfunded that privatisation is seen as a solution. It is unacceptable to build surpluses on the backs of the poor and then borrow for billions in tax cuts.
We need a political revolution that demands a Kiwi Socialism, that recognises the role of the Crown, as spelled out in the Treaty, is to protect the rights of all people. We must have a revolution to end NZers sleeping homeless or in their cars or in over-crowded broken homes working with no dignity in a global market of exploitation.
We face challenges unlike any before our species with climate change. To adapt to that we must radically change the current status quo. It is not a matter of ‘if’ a political revolution will occur, it is simply a matter of ‘when’.
Martyn,
The odd thing about this corrupt Govt’ is they have been found to be so grubby and lacking in honesty so many times in the last eight years now the list is over 200 times apparently.
Then they just turn the blame on every other soul and ignore their own dishonesty almost as if they are androids,– are they actually human as I don’t see any sign of humanity in anything now that comes out of their mouths?
It’s as if we are living inside a movie like “the invasion of the body snatchers” or “When the earth stood still”?
Is this really happening, or am I imagining this?
If so do they get sent to a school to act like this without emotions or conscience?
Yes, we need a revolution here all right, all we need is strong MP’s to lead us into the battle, as Greece did, so we have the right to follow a political rally as they did.
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”
― Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority
This is how bureaucrats become murderers. When everyone around you is engaged in the same amoral activities, it’s so much easier to put aside any pricklings of conscience and simply follow the herd. Do as you’re told. Be an obedient worker and ruin the lives of your countrymen with the stroke of a pen.
Well put Cleangreen 🙂 Hear hear to everything you have posted here.
They are all Sociopaths and or Narcissists. I did meet a National MP who wasn’t one but he was dumped even though he had held the Marlborough seat with a good majority before the last election. That’s why they take soulless creeps ex tobacco companies & the like.
Yes and recall at just before the last election 13 older national MP’s were retired off?
This happened at a veil of secrecy until the last minute just before the run up to the election process, suggesting that these 13 National ministers were to concerned to tow the toxic new National Party line anymore?
Perhaps they wouldn’t sign a “new confidentiality clause” to be silent on issues of “National Party Policy”?
I wouldn’t put it past them as they have shown winning at any cost is paramount to them.
I go offline for about 36 hours on the weekend. Come back online and discover John Key is threatening to overthrow the Auckland City Council and sell of its assets, and MPI are employing Sanfords to run the cameras on its ships. This government comes up with a new outrage by the day.
Martyn is it at all possible to get Hone Harawira to become a regular contributor to TDB? I ask this, because he seems to be about the only political leader to have genuine concern for disadvantaged Kiwis.
Hone was deliberately and shamefully shafted by Labour and NZF last election, a deliberate move to prevent him and more of his political party colleagues entering Parliament, giving voice for the less fortunate of the country. Dirty politics at work at its dirtiest, on behalf of NatzKEY!
I’m sure Hone will have something constructive to add to TDB,
giving us regular alternative news readers another socialist perspective, particularly on what the Mana Movement is offering for NZ.
The dispossessed of NZ have never needed a political party leader to champion them so much as they do right now.
The more prominent political socialist voices to speak on behalf of the disadvantaged, the better.
Some websites show Governments can take control of an apparatus to actually cause earthquake’s!!!
Fracking activity using deep well injection is one way, another is the use of a atom reactor or ultra low frequency vibration generator.
http://grist.org/science/we-are-so-good-at-causing-earthquakes-that-the-government-is-starting-to-forecast-them/
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/research/induced/
http://northerntruthseeker.blogspot.co.nz/2010/03/us-government-admits-that-man-made.html
US Government Admits That Man Made Earthquakes Are Possible (!) (Playing Their HAARP?)
“US government’s HAARP project and the implications that the US Government could have been responsible for the recent rash of earthquakes in both Haiti and Chile by using their HAARP array in Alaska, and other arrays situated around the globe”
Perhaps those who lost their lives during the CHCH earthquakes or lost their properties and lives should combine to sue this Government using CHCH as a earthquake test zone project?
Right !… forget about attacking supply side and starve the beast economics – this what we need !!!
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