MEDIAWATCH: The Nation Review – YES CLOWNS – Luxon will privatise welfare! If we’ve finished with Uffindell can we get back to the real issues?
YES CLOWNS – Luxon will privatise welfare!
If we’ve all finished feeling superior to Uffindell and destroying him for something he did when he was 16, could we possibly get back to this extreme privatisation of welfare?
TDB has been warning since Luxon became leader that he was planning to privatise welfare.
He was already singing Bill English’s Social Investment model which spawned Oranga Tamariki when he became leader, he then went to a UK Right Wing Think Tank who specialise in privatising social services to gave a speech and now right when NZ has one of the lowest unemployment rates ever, Luxon targets the weakest group to bully and just puts the boot in.
He is selling the crack of the whip by constantly repeating the use of sanctions to cut welfare.
He’s whining up resentment of young people on welfare despite not being aware the numbers he’s attacking include ill, sick and disabled youth.
He’s threatening welfare sanctions on the disabled, the ill and the sick.
That’s the kind of needless spite masquerading as tough love that get National Party supporters sexually aroused.
They love this shit. The more punitive, the better.
It doesn’t matter if it’s counter productive, in fact the MORE counter productive, the more excited National Party voters get.
Remember the State House Meth scam?
National used false science to breach Housing NZs own regulations to throw State Tenants out on the street. In the middle of a housing crisis, National created a homelessness crisis by throwing hundreds of State Tenants onto the streets for false Meth harm contamination readings.
No one got sacked, no one was punished, fuck it, Paula Bennett who was the Minister responsible gets to play charades on fucking TVNZ now!
For National supporters, when it comes to social policy, all that matters is that someone they hate suffers, regardless of the cost and regardless of the counter productivity of it all.
We-make-people-we-hate-suffer-no-matter-the-cost is actually right wing dogma.
Here’s how it works.
National will take $50million from MSD, give it to 3rd party contractors who will get a bonus by removing people off the list.
The 2 ways those young people get off the list is if they get a job OR they are sanctioned off the list.
You can all see the game being played here.
Taxpayer money to 3rd party contractors who get paid when they find them a job or they are cut off welfare.
National want to drive sick people back to work, that’s how this country will lead into the future???
This sort of bullshit shouldn’t be allowed to fly when there is so much academic research that this draconian welfare approach doesn’t work!
Pretending that bashing young people on welfare is the solution to rebuilding from covid or is a way to combat poverty or inequality or the housing crisis is just such inane bullshit!
Using the excitement of the crack of the whip to smuggle through a vast privatisation of welfare agenda is going to spook the centre all the way back to Jacinda.
National trying to out ACT ACT on welfare privatisation is just too extreme for the electorate.
National will seize upon the outrage against Uffindell and force Sam to resign so that they can virtue signal their own right wing values of zero crime tolerance.
National are attempting to pass a far right welfare privatisation agenda while screaming tough on crime rhetoric, they can’t crack down on disabled young people on welfare and da gangs and da ram raiders if they are allowing basher toffs off lightly.
National will side with the woke Lynch mob and pretend it’s theirs!
Uffindell is toast, he’ll stand down, National will use this as a chance to virtue signal to tell NZ they are being hard on their own so they can be harder on our young people.
The woke feel morally superior, National get to virtue signal their own hard line and then use that to justify the even harder solutions they are pushing.
No one wins out of this cluster fuck of virtue signalling, not Uffindell’s victims, not our collective debate, not the young people about to be thrown off welfare.
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It’s very messy out there and Labour are making welfare beneficiaries an easy yet unjustified target. And many of these issues goes back to the mother of all social problems, HOUSING!
Crime continues its violent front page trend upwards and crime is always linked to the worst of the worst of do nothing losers, aka the stereotypical lazy scheming benny.
The liberal left wring their hands over young criminals not being to blame and that they need that unicorn, wrap around services and anything but consequences. Intimidation and general public decay grouped tightly in areas like Auckland and Rotorua, etc continue to the point where viability of communities as we know them are at risk. The recent council report on Rotorua makes sobering reading. While very localised, Aucklands Queen St is an ugly example.
All this will add up to ordinary people and business owners who go, what the actual fuck is happening, look on as police ineffectually social work and Labours seemingly self made dysfunction ghettos worsen, and send their votes to the Lux who looks like he hears them. Because law and order will be back, backing up this welfare attack and Chippy tweaking the odd law as a diversion won’t wash.
The trend set by Labour, (who have timidly fiddled while Rome burned), that we are seeing in society in the broader area of social decay is going to be very very fertile ground for National.
Hate to think what else is in the privatisation firing line but the sorry mess that is the public health system is looking ripe for the picking!
Was this policy targeting youth on welfare something that, thick as a wad of cash, chainsaw Chris Luxon thought up, while sunning himself on a beach in Hawaii, and contemplating the massive $18,000 tax windfall that he’ll give himself, by reducing the top tax level paid by NZ elite’s? So that those even richer than chainsaw Luxon will expect even larger windfalls? I wonder what the largest windfalls will be from chainsaw Luxon’s, Elite Lotto? It may explain the huge donations that National is currently receiving from the NZ rich lister’s, including a whopping donation from NZ’s richest man, though the word “donation” could be replaced by the phrase “strategic investment in expectation of future returns”. The elite’s know, which side their bread is buttered on.
Was the idea of sanctions cutting off the income of youth, getting the most meager income of anyone in society, something chainsaw Luxon thought up, while counting up all the rent he receives from the 7 houses he owns? And will he subject MP’s who misbehave to the same level of sanctions, which I understand to be 50% reduction on income for a first breach, and then 100% reduction for a second breach? Because this would sure bring MP’s into line quicksmart. Was cutting off the ability of youth living in the most tenuous circumstances, to be able to pay rent, in the middle of winter, something chainsaw Luxon thought up while warming himself in front of the fireplace of one of his mansions? Has chainsaw Luxon ever set foot inside a homeless shelter? Does he even know where the Auckland City Mission is?
This is when desperate youth with no means of support, even from the welfare state, will start appearing in the criminal justice system in greater numbers, and the gaols will once again become the overcrowded University’s for Crime, with double bunking packing them in like sardines. And when these youth offenders are well on the road to becoming hardened criminals, will chainsaw Luxon’s answer be, “hey, surprise surprise, we need to start building more mega gaols”. For chainsaw Luxon will be quick to sign off on each new billion dollar gaol, and get some firm like Serco to run it, but will be far slower to approve any social housing, since National actually got rid off 20,000 social houses, last time they were in. Unless they now count gaol cells as social houses?
Chainsaw Luxon will be happy to splash the cash for new gaols, and the $100K it costs to care for each extra prisoner per year, which will come to billions. Yet chainsaw Luxon is giving a huge tax windfall to the elite’s, which will reduce govt expenditure by an estimated $7 billion per year. This doesn’t add up. What are the govt services chainsaw Luxon is getting ready to chainsaw? Will it be Health and Education, because those 2 areas are only just recovering from being run down, by National last time. Or will chainsaw Luxon, make up the $7 billion, by increasing gst, and acc levies, and medicine charges, and stop contributions to the superfund, like National did the last time. A leopard can’t change its spots.
Why not simply provide the funding to youth who are longterm beneficiaries, to get them a free drivers license, which would go a long way towards helping them into work, Mr chainsaw Luxon, why don’t you think of the obvious, or is the obvious not a vote winner. Is this the NZ that chainsaw Luxon aspires to, a gotcha society, where the welfare safety net, is now the penal system? National’s policies of giving more money to the elite’s, while cutting off money to the most defenseless disadvantaged denigrated in society, is to put it simply, a turd. And you can’t polish a turd, but that’s not going to stop chainsaw Luxon from trying. He’s far from being a good Samaritan, with his real deity being the almighty dollar, and it wouldn’t surprise me should Labour come up with a policy that gave chainsaw a $30K tax windfall instead of just $18K, that he’d follow the money and vote Labour!
So Luxon gives up a job paying $4 million a year so he can perhaps one day be PM and in a position to give himself a tax break of $18000 extra .Does that not seem strange even to someone with such an envy of someone’s success as you.
Absolutely nailed it Julie. Luxflakes outlines a plan for a slave driven economy. Employment? – Prison guard (must love pepper), caterer (must be able to make porridge), data collector (must be able to see screen), employment coach? wtf?
Yes gh he Luxon will privatise everything like in the UK and the USA but something has to be cut to pay for this like his mate John did when we had zero budgets. Zero budgets equals run down health systems and public school and is doing more with less. Hence why we are in the predicament we are in today.
Yes Julie and when he (Luxon) was asked on the Nation, why he was giving tax cuts to 180k earners, he mentioned progressive taxes and people need to spend their own money not Roberston spend it for them. He will need to do better than that to justify his policy. So now Luxon has thrown 2 big pieces of meat at his base, kicking young beneficiaries IN THE GUTS and tax cuts for high income earners.
Sir Lancelot of Uffindel by the bard https://www.newsroom.co.nz/an-ode-for-the-uffindell
what’s the average time on the dole? most people transition through don’t they? just go on the sickness, get a job for a while. get back on it when seasonal work stops? it’s not hard to get around this sort of crap if you’re hardcore about it.
Billid you obviously haven’t needed to be on a benefit
the 90’s for six weeks – the 80’s for a cpl of months – spun a bullshit story about having to move for family – straight on without a stand down
“That’s the kind of needless spite masquerading as tough love that get National Party supporters sexually aroused”
It seems crude but it’s entirely accurate. More than once I have had the misfortune to overhear the conversations of Real Estate Agents at lunch in a Parnell Cafe and they love nothing more than parroting Luxon’s bullshit lines about welfare bludgers.
The leeches are bitching that their victims had the temerity to drop dead.
Tax cuts for those who earn 180k is the same as what Key did and then we had how many zero budgets and how did these zero budgets effect health and education and who did the lack of investment in these areas effect the most. Same old shit from National nothing new not good for our country.
Maybe he thinks he is Jesus Quenny and he can heal them so they wont need MSD.