The Left look at the State as the great leveller of unregulated Capitalism, but what if the State is part the bloody problem in crucifying the poorest and weakest amongst us?
Not being on The AM Show is the second best thing he’s done this week and it’s only Wednesday!
There is widespread consultation going on about the future of Tomorrow’s Schools (among so many other things!). Implemented on 1 October 1988, the model was founded on the neo-liberal concepts of choice, competition and (at various points) a weakening of the relationship between the state and schooling.
The entire policy was hysteria promoted by the National Government when they needed a distraction from privatising state housing, whipped up by a media dependent on property speculation for revenue.
Currently 60% of those released reoffend within 2 years. That is an abysmal failure, the time to move away from this punitive experiment is now.
Just pause and consider the level of state sanctioned cruelty you are seeing here. Beneficiaries who borrow money had that money counted as ‘income’ so MSD could then claim the beneficiary had committed fraud and then started charging them with penalties and interest.
Based on the low threshold of fear that it takes for business confidence to dry up in NZ – things like eclipses, women voting and Maori with PHDs would have to be banned for NZ Business to feel confident.
After getting heavily criticised by the entire news media establishment for deciding to ban Winston for being 3 minutes late to his live cross, The AM Show this morning said they had decided after being so petulant, to magnanimously offer him the slot back.
…it is difficult to know who is the worst public department, what with the Housing NZ meth hysteria, the cruelty of MSD and the counter-productive horror of our prison industry, but it is safe to say that MPIs spinelessness towards primary industries must surely be the most cowardly.
We might have an unmarried Mum with a stay at home Dad First Family, but NZ has not and is not progressing positively.
Here are 8 things NZ should do right now: