Labour / NZ First Government

[iceman]

I hope you are not aboard the non-existent light train to Mangere and Auckland Airport, flying past all the non-existent Kiwibuild houses ? As soon as the blinkers come off, you´ll realise it was just a bad dream

[QUOTE=Joshuatree;781644]Yeah . Dont try try and try again. What a selfish rotten bunch we have above, wanting to keep the status quo. this govt is improving the life of many .How about you start making donations yourselves. Greedy is the word that comes to mind. Its a happening and you wont stop it. Climb on board this train and contribute to a better NZ or stay behind and be unproductive irrelevant knockers, the choice is yours.

Acknowledge or be blind.

[IMG]

[westerly]

Take off the blinkers - and lets not just talk about the areas where even you must have noticed that Labour policies like Kiwi build (how many houses did they promise?), Justice reform (they jumped as tiger and landed as bed rug), healthcare (less care but exploding costs) or education (quality reduction and cost blow out) are a total disaster.

Jacinda talked during the campaign a lot about child poverty in New Zealand ... and how Labour would make things better for poor children.

More than 2 years down the track - and while there might be now a handful more taxpayer funded and overpaid debating clubs without any clue - absolutely nothing has changed for the children:



https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...in-new-zealand

Unfortunately it is not enough to wish that things get better for everybody ... a government needs also to have the competence to achieve its promises. This is the part where Labour is severely lacking. Nice wishes, lots of talk - but nothing to show for.

"I want to see family incomes dramatically raised by increasing benefits and making the minimum wage a living wage," Becroft said.
"And the Government needs to move much faster at increasing the supply of social housing – building, buying and repurposing – and working closely with community-based housing providers.”

You should be worried, the Childrens Commisioner wants more money spent.

National with it’s emphasis on reducing expenditure and tax achieved nothing of consequence during its 9 years except create long term problems.

westerly

[Joshuatree]

[QUOTE=iceman;781667]I hope you are not aboard the non-existent light train to Mangere and Auckland Airport, flying past all the non-existent Kiwibuild houses ? As soon as the blinkers come off, you´ll realise it was just a bad dream

Yeah . Dont try try and try again. What a selfish rotten bunch we have above, wanting to keep the status quo. this govt is improving the life of many .How about you start making donations yourselves. Greedy is the word that comes to mind. Its a happening and you wont stop it. Climb on board this train and contribute to a better NZ or stay behind and be unproductive irrelevant knockers, the choice is yours.

Acknowledge or be blind.

[IMG]

"Youve gotta accentuate the positive , eliminate the negative, latch on to the affirmative dont mess with mr in-between."

[BlackPeter]

So - how come that the number of children living in households with low income in New Zeland was basically stagnant under National and drastically increased under Labour?

childpoverty NZ.JPG

https://figure.nz/chart/O0Nxquqx4Xla...tdmrZ3ImrxePLO

Just tell me - is this just incompetence or does Labour want to increase the number of poor children (more beneficiaries = more future Labor voters)?

[blackcap]

"I want to see family incomes dramatically raised by increasing benefits and making the minimum wage a living wage," Becroft said.

That is all good and well in theory. But what do you think happens if this is actually put into practice. Do you really think those on benefits and minimum wages will be better off? I doubt it very much. In fact I can quite actually predict that they will be no better off. Maybe initially (like the first half year) but after that it will be status quo. And if you cannot forsee that then you have ideological blinkers on.

[Joshuatree]

Extended Paid parental leave

Set standards for rental homes to ensure they are warm and dry

Winter energy payments for a million people

384,000 families get an average $75 a week extra

Launched Mana in Mahi , will help 1000's of young people into apprenticeships etc

Banned overseas speculators from buying houses in NZ

Cheaper doctors visits for 500,000 plus children and community service card holders

Increased funding for up to 1700 schools so parents dont have to donate it.

Largest ever frontline investment in mental health.

Increasing minimum wage

Lifted something like 74,000 children out of poverty already

This govt is doing it, MUCH MORE to come and it cant happen overnight after the neglect from the uncaring previous do nothing govt.

The cost of renting is a big issue still.

[Balance]

The cost of renting is a big issue still.

Star dust to bull dust.

No amount of PR spin is going to change the bull dust back to star dust again.

Sweet innocent Jacinda blew it when she reneged on capital gains tax, kiwibuild and sexual assaults - and LIED.

[Joshuatree]

Balance is a natural born liar. Our Prime minister hasn't reneged on anything. Spot the difference between fact and lying.

[BlackPeter]

Balance is a natural born liar. Our Prime minister hasn't reneged on anything. Spot the difference between fact and lying.

Oh the irony in this post ...

[Joshuatree]

Can you read and acknowledge the improvements so far in child poverty . Im betting alot more to come now that Robertson is going towards 25%.