Posts by Katharine Moody
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Oh for goodness sake;
New 'wrap around' services policy - fine the parents and send the kids away.
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Hard News: Synthetics: Maybe this mess…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Also: Katharine – ZeroHedge!? Argh!
I hear you :-)... lol.
Also, I hope Trump actually stuns us all and actually listens to the experts. He's the one that established the commission.
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Hard News: A thundering clash of, in reply to izogi,
Well it certainly shows through in the way that we so often talk about child poverty instead of just poverty, even if just to try to make an argument which seems less negotiable.
Yes, that's the deserving/undeserving dichotomy in action for sure. The moral implication of that emphasis on child poverty being that wider society will more likely accept that children are in the 'deserving' poor side (i.e., we can't blame children for having hopeless/'undeserving' parents).
It's one of the key reasons why I favour a UBI going forward - it obliterates that deserving/undeserving type casting. And equally as importantly, it gets rid of the benefit abatement regime - the very thing Metiria was pointing out makes good, caring people desperate and deceptive.
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Hard News: A thundering clash of, in reply to Rob Stowell,
I have every sympathy for her, but still felt a sneaking suspicion the 'moral choice' was laid on a little thick (forced to lie 'to feed my baby' vs 'to pay the rent').
Yes, her use of the 'feed my baby' line made me cringe/uneasy - it focused the issue on DPB recipients; young mothers who have children while not being in a stable relationship.
I feared it would unfortunately serve to reinforce that ancient (but surviving) concept of the 'undeserving poor' from Victorian times;
http://www.experiencewoodhorn.com/part-2-deserving-or-undeserving-poor/
Problem is, society it seems to me today has less empathy, less understanding, less tolerance and more animosity than our Victorian counterparts - and a general view now that all poor are undeserving.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to william blake,
If that Nat’s youthful indiscretions catch up with her I very much doubt that she would resign.
I suspect the full weight of the party’s legal arm will only be on it up to the election and if they remain in power. If they lose the election, she’ll be a casualty of the re-shuffle and as far as this matter goes – she’ll be on her own to actually follow through on the defamation threats.
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LOL- a blue supporter on another site has accused Paddy Gower of having an orgasm on live TV;
Ah, well, game on. Wonder what kind of note in an envelope he'll be getting in the Parliamentary foyer tomorrow?
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Alfie,
A very good person gone. For all the wrong reasons. Bugger!
I'm speechless. More or less demonstrates in the ugliest of ways, just how good NZ society at large is at the successful persecution of the poor.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Craig Young,
Action Station put up a Facebook post along those lines, pointing out:
Do you know what's robbing the tax payer? Spending nearly $50 million on benefit fraud investigations, uncovering $24 million and only recovering $5 million.
Yet, tax fraud investigations have uncovered $1.2 billion, spent $169.77 million and recovered $362.8 million.Put another way, for every dollar we spend on investigating welfare discrepancies, we get $0.09, and for tax fraud, we get $6.07!
If you were the Minister of Finance or Revenue, where would you focus your efforts?
And linked to this article;