Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Angela Hart,
As if that nice Mr Key would do such a ....thing.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Suspicious about this. Nice idea but it also proposes more contracting out, more fragmentation and using cheaper professionals via NGOs instead of a strong centralised unionised, professional workforce.
Our Leader spent time in Motueka yesterday...
He said the current Child Youth and Family review could have a "very direct impact on the way that people here work for instance".
But any change would not be around nationalisation of community services, Key said.
Rather it would look at the possibility of rationalising the number of providers in communities.
"Every individual support group is really well meaning and what they are doing is legitimate, but in the end the Government pays the bill and the question is the cost of delivery to us," Key said
The last bit bears repeating...
but in the end the Government pays the bill and the question is the cost of delivery to us
Oh, dear.
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Angela Hart,
ignore the bugger
Good point.
However...
https://openparachute.wordpress.com/2016/02/01/january-16-nz-blogs-sitemeter-ranking/
and what with the other rabid right site having similar popularity...
we may be in the deepest of smelly stuff.
Public opinionwise...
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to mark taslov,
Due to the nature of mental illness, anything Cameron Slater says is subject to the influence of his illness. Yes he puts that tone out there, but at the end of the day it’s a symptom of a greater problem, he is high conflict, clearly he is dealing with a great deal of pain.
Let me see if I have read this right.
Cameron Slater has a mental illness that causes him to attack, with a great deal of savagery, those who are also clearly suffering pain and disablement.
Perhaps, while he receives the treatment he needs ( and I would hazard there be a number of other folk who would willingly give up their demands on the publicly funded health system to ensure treatment in his case is prompt) some kind of gag/muzzle could be employed?
Damage control...because he does has some influence...at the highest of levels.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Sacha,
not transfer or retain existing incompetents.
....got into a random discussion with a random person( who knows another random person) about a MOH:DSS contracted provider that serves a rather large region here in jolly old Godzone.
Three names came up...employees who have exhibited such mind blowing incompetence (and on more than one occasion sheer bloody nastiness) over the past two decades that the lives of some disabled people and their families have been made absolutely and intolerably miserable.
Yet two are still employed in their role... and get this...one has ascended to the stratosphere of the upper echelon.
Bet my last dollar that they will secure new high level roles in your new MOD.
On the other hand...and on a much more positive note (who said I can't be cheery?)
We had reason to engage with another provider recently.
Two decades ago this provider was operating out of an unappealing low market storefront in and industrial area. They did good work. Excellent, in fact. Top blokes...I'll call them Bill and Ted...were true gents with hearts of gold and high skill levels.
About 8 years ago they were forced to join in the larger, modernised, corporatised parent company in the HUGE new purpose built facility....Bill and Ted had bigger premises and administrative support....so you'd think the already good would be better...right?
Nah...rapidly went to shit...and we can't have been the only clients who had issues..because...
Bill's retired...but Ted is back doing what he and Bill were doing twenty years ago from another unappealing store front in an industrial area. And again doing good work in a fashion that makes the process easier for us (although they still have to wriggle through the bureaucratic hoops they are making every effort not to pass that onto to us).
So...lets here it for the giant leap backwards...
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Joe Wylie,
God...feral, or what?
After that, we could all do with a cheery up tune...
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OOOPS!!!
Should have put a double warning on that link....
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I now feel ill
Yeah, well...sorry about that...
When I read that (the Youknowhat blog), I had an epiphany of sorts.
His words...plus the words written by his followers...struck home.
You go out into the world with an obvious disability, or with someone with an obvious disability and you are forced to get used to the stares and the comments.
You are forced to accept that about 70% (yes, we keep a running score) of folk simply can't bring themselves to initiate a conversation with someone in a wheelchair.
Most folk don't mean ill...they are just not comfortable, and struggle to engage...
But I read that...and the comments...and I realised that there are at least some folk out there, in Godzone, who really really believe that shit.
And...we don't know who they are...they could be that guy who walked across the road to avoid speaking with Himself...it could be anyone...we just don't know.
But, what we do know, is that Our Leader is a friend of Youknowhat....
https://fmacskasy.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/key-and-slater.jpg
Accounts for much of the government's recent rabid antithesis towards those less perfect people. -
Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Marc C,
it is a disgrace where we have ended up, a total disgrace.
And the story of Sam Kuha exemplifies this perfectly.
Y'all remember Sam...59 with a significant disability who was declined a food grant from WINZ until he had seen a budget advisor...subsequent advice was that he had insufficient income from WINZ to meet his needs...he knew this already...
Anyway...he went on a hunger strike, and wheeled down to the WINZ office and smashed a couple of windows in frustration....
Received outstanding support from the CCS advocate interviewed in the above article.
When Sam subsequently appeared in court for breaking the WINZ windows, he pleaded guilty and was convicted and discharged. He agreed to pay the $480 repair bill at $10 per week from his benefit...which by the time of his sentencing he could afford because...
Kuha's benefit had increased by 41 per cent because he was now receiving his full entitlement.
At the time, Godzone's favourite cetacean wrote,...and the lazy prick couldn’t be arsed to do a proper one.
This guy has such a sense of entitlement it sickens me. He has a car that he doesn’t drive because it’s not warranted or registered – why doesn’t he sell the bloody thing then?
He owns his own home and the reason he has no money for food is that it goes on his mortgage and insurances! What gives him the right to suck off the taxpayer’s tit and get his house paid for, just because he was unlucky enough to be run over by a car 20 years ago?
What time is that Revolution starting???
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Up Front: Cui bono?, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
If we can find just one Minister
Nevermind Dunne....what about Te Ureroa, Pita and the matriarch Tariana?
Held/hold real potential legislative power over the Natz....and what did they do?
Well...what did they do?
Staying in the Far North (and why not:-))...the Maori Party and Hone Harawira seem to have failed to capture the loyalty of the whanau, but, Kelvin's no bullshit defence of the underdog is capturing hearts and minds.
Labour...if they ever get their heads around how to secure votes... could be onto a real winner there.