And the legacy of Labour's Maorification woke madness continues.
Going to take a while for the new government to systematically stamp out the madness.
https://nopunchespulled.com/2024/02/...lass-bull****/
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And the legacy of Labour's Maorification woke madness continues.
Going to take a while for the new government to systematically stamp out the madness.
https://nopunchespulled.com/2024/02/...lass-bull****/
Haha...I'ld have to agree with Bob Jones on that one. For G'S' it's just a children's playground!
Remember when Mike Smith chopped down the lone pine tree on top of Managakiekie One Tree Hill, and said 'its just a tree' when people said the tree held special significance to them. Cuts both ways.
(He did late regret it )
Correction.
Don't distort history.
Mike Smith never chopped the tree down.
He attempted to use Colonial technology in the form of a chainsaw, and the Colonial pine tree fought back.
Smith had to admit defeat, and depart the scene, leaving his chainsaw impaled in a defiant Colonial.
Don't give Smith exalted status.
He was humbled.
So child poverty is on the rise, the proposed tax cuts will result in a further reduction in services because (as a number of economists pointed out) the Nat's proposals to fund them were always 'pie in the sky'; there is a huge infrastructure deficit - and you right wing apologists have your (blue) knickers in a twist over a children's playground and want the new government to 'systematically stamp out the (woke maorification) madness'
Your lot had 6 years to attend to these problems davflaws. And despite ballooning debt and higher spending (mostly on everything non-productive), managed to make pretty much everything worse.
The voting public has had their say. Seeing Labour further entrench their position in the universities is deeply worrying, as that is where the useless incompetents that have been given the boot and their media puppets were indocrinated. Robertson will be a disaster for Otago and therefore inflict even more damage on NZ.
Child poverty eh?
So easily fixed.
A simple reprioritisation of the family budget away from drugs booze, fags and gambling, and problem solved.
Why is it even a political issue?
Oh, that's right, to give the left another reason to reach over into the hard working thrifty folks pockets.
If it was labelled as wastage and squandering rather than an emotive term such as child poverty, it wouldn't gain any traction would it?
Unfortunately that may be your experience in Hastings, but can assure you in Auckland there's thousands of families with both exhausted parents working full time -sometimes with 2 jobs, but by the time the rent's taken a huge chunk out of their income, there's not enough left for the basics.
It's really unfortunate, to generalise & frame all these people the way you do.
Many of these people are great parents, they don't drink or smoke or gamble or have holidays, working their guts out, 6 or 7 days a week to try & give their kids a better life than they've got, but more & more are having to turn to food banks.
Unless something is done to fix either our low wage economy, or the cost of renting/housing or a combination of both, its only going to get worse.
This govt is planning on giving tax cuts to landlords, cutting Benefits in real terms & lowering the annual Minimum Wage adjustment below the inflation rate.
All this against official advice.
Anyone can see where that's going.
That is just BULL ****.
If 2 parents are working 2 jobs 6 or 7 days a week, even at minimum wage, there will be enough left for the basics. And some. Unless of course they CHOOSE to live in accommodation that is unaffordable. There are plenty of 3 bedroom homes around for $700 per week. Take home pay is about $1400 a week so that leaves $700. More than enough for the basics.
Kids cost, but on minimum incomes, working for families is very generous.
It because priorities are wrong.