Poor people are terrified having to deal with Housing NZ, WINZ, Ministry of Development, Corrections, Probation, CYFS because those state departments are only seen to punish those desperate enough to need their services, that’s why people go to community groups.
Hillary spoke to an educated electorate, Trump tried to scare an uneducated electorate. The style of the debate demanded actual policy and seeing as Trump doesn’t actually have any policy, it was always going to be a whipping.
It turned into a crucifixion.
The tip line has been running hot as to the real reasons behind Hekia Parata’s sudden decision to stand down from Parliament at the next election.
The bizarre gladiatorial orgy of gross absurdity between Clinton and Trump will damage the American psyche in a way I don’t think it can return from. Either candidate will inherit a White House that is smeared with lies and bitter resentment.
We can build private prisons, but we can’t build houses for the homeless. We can’t build affordable housing but we can build tax havens. We can give away billions in tax cuts but we can’t fund suicide prevent programs properly.
You would think that our out of control prison nation expanding by another 1800 bed private prison or our obscene suicide rates would lead any news site in NZ.
A nation that kills itself with the passion ours does is a damaged culture demanding immediate recognition and action now. The denial is beneath us and those who tragically take their own lives.
Imagine if we took that $1.8billion ‘surplus’ and reinvested it into Suicide prevention?
One of the most interesting things about the last 8 years in NZ has been the dumping of rational and empirical evidence based social policy. We don’t implement policy based on facts now, we implement ideologically extreme brain farts.
So Junior Doctors are on strike because of their insane work loads while at the same time Bill English manufactures a $1.8billion surplus by cutting back on the social infrastructure so the richest amongst us can get tax cuts.
This is our mainstream media at its worst, no wonder the average Kiwi has no bloody idea what is actually going on in their country.