Originally Posted by
elZorro
Could our government do better than it is? that's the question. Craic, if you could put yourself for just one instant in the shoes of a school leaver with just NCEA 1 or 2 looking for a job in Auckland, what do think of their chances? Should they be happy enough with the dole, and wait for the economic upturn that is always just around the corner? Meanwhile the voters from the right are ridiculing them for being lazy. Drop 40,000 broad-based manufacturing jobs from the economy while the population rises, and see what happens. These and many other people who don't own property - they are not seeing the benefits of any real estate boom - it just makes their position seem all the more hopeless.