Posts by Sacha
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Simpering Actoid ninny Deb Coddington argues that if the well-off white folk of Sumner can organise themselves then why have a government response at all.
PPPs are surely the answer, she insists. And the good people of Martinborough raised $7000 with a cake stall, so there - the most important thing is it was voluntary with none of that horrible state compulsion and "crowding out" of the private response.
Why can't governments realise they are not the solution, they are the problem?
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At least John Key continues to rule out a special tax promoted by Greens co-leader Russel Norman on anyone earning more than $48,000.
It's just downright insulting to order New Zealanders to donate. The spontaneous benevolence of Kiwis in the quake's aftermath has been outstanding.
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When the Government commandeers the role of welfare, as it has done in so many aspects of our lives, people shrug their shoulders and cease to give.
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to Steve Barnes,
the big cheese
I don't think he minds what type of cheese; it's the size that does it for him
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Cool tale, sir
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OnPoint: Everything has changed until 2014, in reply to giovanni tiso,
MIA would be a considerable improvement
True
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Russell Brown,
I hadn't spotted it until today either
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Speaking of ambition, Metiria Turei calls out the WWG for their lack of it.
And in the five years between December 2000 and December 2005 the number of people on working age benefits dropped by a whopping 90,000 (or 90% of the Welfare Working Group’s 10 year target) from 392,000 to 302,000. That was without the punitive measures the Welfare Working Group is proposing to introduce – in fact the work-for-dole schemes and work-testing of single parents that had been implemented by the last National-led Government were abolished early in that period.
So much for ambition! The Welfare Working Group doesn’t have any more ambitious target for reduction in beneficiary numbers than would seem likely, given past experience, to occur anyway given reasonably favourable economic conditions and sound economic management.
So why is the Welfare Working Group proposing its beneficiary bash-fest?
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Russell Brown,
Which of course got turned into this thing of wonder
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Russell Brown,
a massive flashback of dancing next to her
Love those moments too
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Hard News: It Began ... in Chicago, in reply to Mike Hollywood,
a chill-out lounge area upstairs, with the quirky band Six Volts
Loved my only visit, though did get swallowed up by those sofas