Labour to spend billions more on welfare

One would have thought Labour might have learned from their last 9 years in power that promising people free money through welfare schemes like Working for Families, paid maternity leave and taxpayer funded childcare is unaffordable at the best of times but during the worst economic times since the Great Depression extending all these vote buying schemes is morally, socially and fiscally wrong.

There may have been a ray of light in these policies if they had actually worked for the populace but Working for Families has incentivised staying on the same income and thereby lowering productivity, paid maternity leave and taxpayer funded childcare has drained taxpayer coffers so that those that don't qualify for this welfare are struggling to pay for these things themselves.

These things are not only unaffordable but they don't actually work in the long-term.

If welfare was such a success when introduced into New Zealand in the 1930s under Labour it would have seen itself bow out of existence because it would have cured all the ills politicians said it would.

Instead what we know has happened is that it has fostered crime, relative "poverty", child abuse and murder and made hundreds of thousands of us dependent on their fellow taxpayer.

There are more of us on welfare in New Zealand than at any other time in our history and clearly things are not well in the garden of eden.

You would think then, that politicians, especially those on the left, would learn that doing more of the same that has got us here is the pure definition of insanity.

State welfare doesn't work and we need to recognise that.

For Labour to ignore these facts, especially at a time when our economy could be on the brink of collapse over the next 5 years, just to buy votes for an election win is just suicide for the country as whole.

The money for all this extra spending will come from borrowing from China and increased and new taxes across the board for all workers. There is no other way this can happen.

Billions more in extra spending on non-productive policies and possible difficulties in borrowing more money means this would put the whole country in danger of defaulting sometime in the future.

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National's Welfare "Reform" : Is that it?

The much talked about "welfare reform" from the National Party has turned into a bit of an underwhelming damp squib for me:

"All of those currently on the unemployment and sickness benefits will be put on a new 'Jobseeker Support Benefit,' and required to look for full time work. Single parents with children aged over 14 would go on the same benefit.

Parents on the domestic purposes benefit would instead get 'Sole Parent Support' until their youngest turned 14.

Solo parents would be required to undergo work testing when their child turned one and would be expected to work at least part time when their youngest was five.

The term 'invalids benefit' would also be scrapped and those with permanent, severe disabilities and terminal illnesses would instead receive a "supported living payment."

They would not face work obligations". NZ Herald

Why wouldn't you make solo parents look for work after 12 weeks? People with jobs regularly go back to work to provide for the family and it seems a tad bizarre that solo parents would have the luxury of 5 years looking after little Johnny or Susie at home while the rest of us wage slaves only see our kids in the morning and evenings.

It seems like a good start but incentives really need to be focused on making it harder for Mums to pop out kids on the DPB and easier if one chooses to be honest with others and themselves and work for a living to support themselves and their family.

I wait in hope.

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Chris Hipkins Fails his Constituents

Yes it was a big mistake not going after the scum in Farmer Crescent and evicting them from taxpayer housing after a cool million was spent through the courts but Chris Hipkins, local MP for this trash gets it seriously wrong when he points the finger at Housing NZ for causing havoc in the community:

"A million-dollar bill racked up trying to evict three women from their Lower Hutt homes would have been better spent on new homes or renovations, their local MP says.

"They could have built three new houses for that sort of money," Rimutaka MP Chris Hipkins said.

Despite winning a legal battle spanning five courts and more than two years, Housing New Zealand has pulled the pin on efforts to evict the women from Farmer Cres, Pomare.

The stoush had "torn the guts out" of the community, Mr Hipkins said.

Robyn Winther, Huia Tamaka and Billy Taylor were handed eviction notices after a violent incident involving Mongrel Mob members in Farmer Cres in February 2009. Stuff.co.nz 2 Sept 2011

Chris by implication is really saying trash like Robyn Winther, Huia Tamaka and Billy Taylor should be allowed to waste their days away in taxpayer supported housing and benefits while their partners are out raping, drug dealing, killing and terrorising the neighbourhood.

With logic like that no wonder nobody is listening.

Wake up Chris you are failing the good people in your electorate by standing by this trash.

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