How dare she blame parents when the housing crisis erodes wages, how dare she blame parents when Kiwis are being forced to live in cars. How dare she blame parents when 41 000 are homeless. How dare she blame parents when there are 300 000 children living in poverty.
With my environmental activist hat on, I welcome this shift. With my blind pedestrian hat on, on the other hand, I greet this trend with apprehension.
If the National Party spent as much energy on redefining language to escape having to acknowledge the poverty their policies create on actually helping the poor, then they would have solved child poverty by now.
…we can blame policy all we like and yes these services are disgracefully underfunded but there are human beings who are committing this torture.
What did Hosking say? Well, he was giving us the benefit of his deep insight and wisdom concerning the recent local government elections. This is what he said:
…Trump needs to win 7 out of every 10 white males to win the election, no US President has ever done that before, but Trump’s deplorable sexual abuse boasting is aimed at that angry white male sense of a loss of privilege.
…the Government would have known that this was about to break and so rushed around to implement a needlessly vile element of the immigration policy and cut migrants off from their families.
This week, the Climate Change Minister, Paula Bennett announced that the government would not listen to rational arguments calling for these fraudulent units to be cancelled and replaced by credits with at least some integrity. The government plans to use the surplus credits to meet our future targets.
…these departments used to be the bastions upon which a liberal progressive democracy were built, under National however they have become torture devises to punish those weak enough to need their sub standard services and they have become staffed by people who wholeheartedly perform this state sponsored cruelty with a certain amount of glee.