Comments on: It’s going to take more than Jacinda’s kindness to combat inequality in NZ

By: Steve King

Steve King — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 06:18:36 +0000

I think you have hit the nail on the head.
There is possibly a bit of an identity issue within Labour…. and without the PM they are nothing at all, sorry to all the hardworking people but it is true, and everybody knows it.
So Labour have to decide if they are going to be actually “transformational” which would mean them taking on at least one bastion of the neoliberal machine/thing/system/religion. They can’t bring the whole stinking edifice crashing down but they could take on some element of it and actually change something. Which would be a start.
Or they could just be the Claytons National government. Remember the advert?

By: Nick J

Nick J — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 04:11:47 +0000

One very very simple thing could be done. Jacinda should instruct the public service that they are there to serve the public. She should insist benefit rates and rules be published and staff make these easy to access. Those Nzers unfortunate enough to need state support should no longer be made to feel like social lepers.

By: saveNZ

saveNZ — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:02:23 +0000

Not true, “The truth is Jacinda inherited a neoliberal structure that is built to punish the poor and benefit property owners.”

…not true anymore based on statistics that show the poorest growing group is Pakeha families with mortgages and on wages…

From Brian Easton…

“Shortly after, I discovered that measured poverty in the country was dominated by children and their parents. This was a revolutionary finding at the time and it took only four decades for it to become the conventional wisdom. Even today, you will find people who focus their poverty discussions on beneficiaries, ethnic minorities, single-parent households, and those in rental accommodation. The research evidence points to the most common household in poverty is a Pakeha couple with children living in their own house (with a mortgage) and being dependent upon wages.”

https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/invisible-children

Maybe time to change the record a bit with real research from left wing commentators spreading incorrect information who is benefiting from the neoliberal structures and it’s not all property owners….

Home owners seem to be a popular target and the politics of envy is a wonderful thing, to help distract from the .01% neoliberals who are really making the money and behind NZ Rogernomics and neoliberalism.

Don’t push an in/out/divide discourse that keeps Labour Rogernomics going and helps the right and woke lefties who hate everyone but themselves, to keep the spot light off the .01%, most of whom are not tax domiciled in NZ when they make the real money here while the local’s on the take pocket their political donations, say mum and keep their job and bonuses in MSM, treasury and the like and look forward to the sweet post political deals as the local representative on the boards of the neoliberal companies!

By: Rickoshay

Rickoshay — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:45:51 +0000

In order for The few to have much more, the many have to be content with much less, Are you Happy?

By: helen manson

helen manson — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 06:22:53 +0000

The yellow Vests of France have some good ideas that N.Z. should adopt.