I think it was a long term plan , it didn't sit well with Labour that John key was the only one to put the basic benefit up in decades ......
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Some families for sure, would have struggled with children out of school - where they may well have been provided with breakfast each day prior to lockdown. When families are already struggling to make ends meet, having extra mouths to feed for even one meal a day, would be significant. Kids at home during the day may well also mean heating needs to be on - parents at home while kids are usually at school, may not put it on just for themselves. Even simple things like more loads of laundry over a week. If you include pensioners in the beneficiary category, they were pretty much confined to home so may well have been buying groceries online or giving family/friends petrol money to shop for them. Again, home all day so more heating needed. I am just guessing here obviously but these would be likely added expenses.
It would have been difficult to target the assistance to only “some” beneficiaries, based on need. Logistically difficult especially given other time pressures right now, so easier to make it an across the board payment to everyone.
Disgusting? More like the truth hurts, doesn’t it?
Fact is that you & Cindy would love to just bask in the glory of containing the virus.
You are not prepared to face the hard facts however that there are going to be deaths and health problems - of the ham-fisted uncaring one-sided support provided by this ‘kind’ government.
We're meant to trust these cynical incompetents!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...ae-controversy
They remove the word marae from the clause and then reinsert it in the definition! Finally the Greens have something (mild) to say.
Labour would have had a 2 year expiry on this law if not pulled up by National.
The comments of the Human Rights Commissioner at the end of the article are downright chilling.
This bit is damning of the government as far as I am concerned. We are not in this all together it seems and I have withdrawn myself from the "we" part of society because of this and will do my best to thwart this government at any opportunity:
“For weeks the Government has known that we would be moving to alert level 2. It has not allowed enough time for careful public democratic consideration of this level 2 legislation. There has been no input from ordinary New Zealanders which is deeply regrettable,” Hunt said.
My exact reply was - Nope but there are far far far better alternatives than spending $1,400 per week!
How about leasing any number of venues now available, equip them with furniture and furnishings and house the homeless there? And make sure they help themselves as well - cooking, taking care of the place etc?
Give a man a fish and he is hungry tomorrow. Teach a man how to fish and he will feed himself into the future.
Yup - now that a businessman had taken his own life, it’s all a bit too inconvenient to discuss the implications of using a ‘hammer to crack a nut’.
There will be much more pain and suffering In the year ahead - thanks to the ham-fisted one sided way Cindy & her incompetents have mishandled the support to the business community, especially the Mom & Dad businesses.
Seriously? You actually believe any of this is about freaking glory? :mad ;:
Keep trying to bait me into responding to your comments about the person who died (He was a human being by the way - not an “occupation.”)
This is one subject I am not going to bite on, so don’t waste your time.
Balance should really put himself on ignore. Nothing is taboo with this guy not even peoples lives, what a cheap nasty shot.Unacceptable on this decent Website.
Why?
I commented about unemployment & joblessness & despair leading to suicides, and the likes of justakiwi simply want to bury their heads in the sand about that reality (let's not talk about it).
Now that it has happened, no one is allowed to mention it?
Exactly how spouse, child and sexual abuse used to happen in the past - relentlessly - until society started talking about it, and doing something to bring the cases down.
Pathetic.