Posts by Marc C
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Rob Stowell,
FFS is this real, that is what most think, ahem. this cannot be, that is the reality, most cannot and will not understand this can be done, that is the problem we have. MSM criminals need to be decapitated I fear, to get people learn the truth and their true potential.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
Ghasp, for air and more, the "real world" is something I have been told about endless times, it makes me wonder, oh so wonder, what does it mean or are they living in another world?" I have NO faith no more in BS.
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I can tell Rob and others, you will simply NOT deal with and address the social and economic and other problems this country has had for years, by trying yet more experimenting and stuff like we know.
What this country is lacking is true communities, it may exist in pockets here and there, but here in Auckland there is NO real community in most places, it is a patchwork of a society, where individualism and otherwise separation of sorts are the rule. Our politicians only tell us different things to try and appeal to a positive sounding neighbourhood, which mostly does not exist.
We have had this neoliberalism and what came with it, it has destroyed the social fabric, and turned class against class, suburb against suburb, generation against generation, professionals against ordinary workers and vice versa. The ones on benefits do not even count, are not existing to most, but they are there, an evident failure of a useless and truly failed society.
So there are the challenges, and nobody really likes or dares address it, so we come up with parties and their petty policies, some catering only for their privileged or not so privileged clientele.
You cannot live in and have a divided country, it is nothing else but the biblical BABEL, to be honest, unless you make efforts to bring people together and enlighten and spirit them to work together.
That is where this government has failed abysmally. We have a divided opposition, and unless that opposition gets combined enough to form a joint alternative front and potential government, we will have a continuation of disaster.
That is where action is needed, I say this, because it must be spoken out honestly here. So Labour, Greens, NZ First get your shit together, we here at the bottom had the gutsful of what goes on. You people in Labour don't even seem to care about us, unless we are politically useful ammunition to fire at the government, at times.
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to DexterX,
Yep, but our (mostly commercially sensitive) MSM have already closed the Panama Papers chapter of "news", so we get no more reporting on such topics, I fear.
Business as usual, and Key loves it, it is all going according to plan, fourth term ensured now.
All he has to do is hoodwink enough, pull the wool over most people's eyes, keep immigration going, and after that, once he is ready to retire in Hawaii, it can and will all fall to crap pieces, us picking up the pieces.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Sacha,
Sorry, I just realised you addressed your question to Rob, so let us wait what he has to offer.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Sacha,
Remember this also:
http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/business/qoa/51HansQ_20150917_00000008/8-welfare-reforms%E2%80%94mental-health-and-sole-parent-employmentI am not sure whether more digging was done by Labour or Greens or NZ First, it should have been done, so we need to check with them all.
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Polity: Decrypting “social investment”, in reply to Sacha,
There is some, but I may have to dig it out, I am not the one in control of them, but can get some access. There have been a fair few links offered before, and some of the info received from MSD has been highly questionable or at least ambiguous, not giving up front info. So all I can offer at this very moment is this kind of info:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/mhes-spes-msd-withholds-o-i-a-info-that-may-prove-trials-a-failure-post-nzsjb-final-14-04-2015.pdfhttps://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/msd-o-i-a-request-to-c-e-of-m-s-d-base-benefit-break-down-anon-08-07-15.pdf
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/msd-o-i-a-request-to-c-e-of-msd-bratt-hd-panel-reforms-anon-08-07-15.pdfIt has gone to the Ombudsman, but with Ron Paterson, former HDC a man in charge, we have the impression they leave things lying around and are not keen on addressing issues. He looks after the MSD complaints to the Ombudsman, and I wonder how much he knows and is “friends with” David Bratt.
This stuff I have some access to is compiled by hard working, desperate and poor people, they do not have the means to run a flash website or blog like this here. So one needs to go through what they make available, which means going through this post, there are many links with detailed info:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2015/04/10/mental-health-and-sole-parent-employment-services-msd-withholds-o-i-a-information-that-may-prove-their-trials-a-failure/All the links in those post are totally safe and simply link to loaded PDFs with the evidence needed.
I must check if more can be made available, some stuff on the useless Ombudsmen is supposed to be made public soon, they are part of the problem!
Some woeful Ombudsmen responses, am not sure if this ties up, but worth a read:
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/ombudsman-complaint-msd-failure-to-comply-with-oia-rqst-fr-08-07-15-anon-01-11-2015.pdf -
Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
This was totally predictable, years ago, with John Key and his government setting the perfect investment environment for wealthy "investors" and immigrants to come here, buy into real estate and business, and turn many local residents into nothing else but tenants in their own country.
Once upon a time it was only Maori who felt like being taken over and invaded, now it is wider New Zealand, white, brown, whatever their colour, but it tends to hit the ones at the very bottom first and harder than the rest, as usual.
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Hard News: Crowded houses, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
So Mr Goof is neither here nor there, as usual, and all this may have been a bit of a "slip up" by Phil the Twyford, who may have rushed ahead with some thoughts, he may now regret?
What a shocking situation. Thanks for that link, at least that worked.
Credits to Guyon, he is doing a good job, but that is not hard with Paul Henry on TV3 and the other gigglers on TVNZ in the morning.
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I also wonder whether Labour agrees with this kind of stuff:
http://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.wordpress.com/2014/10/19/nz-finance-minister-bill-english-insults-beneficiaries-with-mansel-aylwards-work-will-set-you-free-approach/Dear Labour, if you want MY vote, and if you do not want nearly 290,000 on benefits to be left by the wayside as potential voters, perhaps you need a thorough RETHINK of your social security policy?
Any consideration that this "investment approach" is the way to go, the purely actuarial approach we get from this government, will be a solid vote loser with your traditional voters, I may guess. Eying up the property owning middle class new millionaires here in Auckland will come with a price, and that means Labour may become obsolete, as it tries to cater for the same and offer similar policies to the Nats.
Phil Twyford gave us a warning signal, I conclude, not a good one, for Auckland.