welfare

Michael Laws calls out the poverty industry:

 [M]ost New Zealanders are not convinced that New Zealand has a child poverty problem. We have a piss-poor-parenting problem, yes. We don’t have an inadequacy of resources.

Which is where the Children’s Commissioner and the liberal lobbyists have it all wrong. They quote statistics about kids going to school hungry, about inadequate rentals, about hospitalisations and woeful child dental care, as if no argument is required.

Look at those poor kids, they declare. There’s the proof of child poverty.

No, it isn’t. It’s proof that thousands of Kiwi parents are making bad choices about their priorities. And that the welfare and community organisations that are supposed to be supporting them . . . aren’t.

Indeed, it’s a dual failure. The parents aren’t up to their role and the agencies are ineffective with their assistance. And that includes churches and other social agencies that prefer to lobby for more money, rather than use their funding appropriately.  Read more »

Classic case of ferals breeding for business while the children go hungry.  Not due to any shortage of money, but a shortage of humanity, responsibility and any sense of basic parenthood.

More alcohol than food was found in a Lower Hutt house where four children suffered from scabies while their parents and friends drank.

The children, aged four, three, two and seven months, were removed from the house after six days and hospitalised on the advice of a paediatrician.

A 25-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman have now pleaded guilty to four charges of failing to get medical care and adequate food and nutrition for their children.  Read more »

Once again the parties of the left, aided by their plants in the civil service are calling for poor kids to be fed at school.

Every day thousands of Kiwi kids go to school hungry or without lunch.

They are more likely to fail in school, to have poor health and to feel ashamed. Some of our considerable additional investment in children in low- decile schools is wasted because they can’t concentrate on learning. We are all affected by the additional costs of future low productivity and welfare dependency.

The expert advisory group on solutions to child poverty report I released in December last year recommended implementing a targeted food in schools programme to support children to learn and succeed.  Read more »

The left wing doesn’t want people off welfare, they want them indentured like slaves to welfare. But getting off welfare removes the shackles and once off people realise that life is a whole lot better for them.

Jamie le Bas is one such example:

Solo father Jamie le Bas has the odds stacked against him.

The 22-year-old, from Palmerston North, left school at 14 and had his first child at 16, when he went on the dole. He now has four children and cares for the eldest, Jasmine, after her mother, his ex-partner, was diagnosed with post-natal depression.

Under the Government’s last round of welfare reforms, he had to return to work when Jasmine turned 5 years old.

“I was still studying two days, and then four days working,” he said. “It is difficult. You miss them, the kids.”

But Mr le Bas and his daughter have thrived since he re-entered the workforce as a mechanic. He has jumped up several pay grades and improved his literacy.   Read more »

David Shearer declared that he was upset about a guy in the street who was a beneficiary who was up on his roof painting. All hell broke loose across the left and the right of the political spectrum. The left wing demanded that David Shearer stop bashing beneficiaries and the right wing demanded David Shearer produce this hapless beneficiary to prove he wasn’t made up.

I can now reveal that Rufus Paynter does indeed exist…except his real name is Ronald Morgan  Read more »

The Dompost article from Narelle Henson highlights the general despair that many employers face with inadequate applicants for jobs.

Lindsay Mitchell explains why some people can’t get jobs:

Employers occasionally speak out about their difficulty in getting good people. It’s more often a lament heard on talkback radio than read in print but the stories aren’t uncommon. I don’t doubt their veracity and they make me angry, despairing and worried.

These ‘inadequates’ to put it politely will doubtless be passing on their own attitudes and impaired intelligences to their children. I fear that cutting off their benefit incomes won’t motivate them positively. It’ll just turn them into more resentful, more bitter and more desperate characters.  Read more »

Hard not to argue with the logic of Adam Carolla when he mocked Obama’s proposals for an increased minimum wage:

The podcast king blasted the president’s rhetoric on the issue, reminding listeners most minimum wage jobs are meant for employees getting their first taste of economic realities.

Minimum-wage jobs are the ones you’re supposed to have in high school and you’re supposed to pass through them. The idea is — I worked at McDonald’s when I was 16. The whole idea isn’t let’s make Adam Carolla comfortable working at McDonald’s. I was like, ‘I’m getting $2.43 a hour. This place sucks ass. I want out of here as fast as I can possibly do it.’

He also argued people working minimum wage jobs should think twice before starting a family, a subject no politician would ever explore.

And you certainly aren’t supposed to have two fucking kids when you’re making Minimum Wage. It’s not responsible; it’s not responsible to the kids you’re trying to raise; and it’s not responsible to the community they live in because you’re not — you’re not paying your fair share.

He goes even further:

But according to Carolla, the author of “Not Taco Bell Material,” earning a minimum wage with two kids is a sign of bar parenting.

“And jumping down to minimum wage by the way, speaking of that — and this is another part of good parenting — the best parenting of all is not shitting out the kids when you can’t afford the kids,” Carolla said. “Again, all these speeches that all these politicians make, right and left — they discuss the problem. Basically, what they’re discussing is how to take a ship that’s capsized and drain it and get it back up. But they never discuss what capsizes the ship, which is the only fucking discussion they should be having — is ballast-oriented: How did it get capsized? Not how do we un-capsize it.”

From the UK, A warning of the dangers of making benefits a life style choice and incentivising breeding on a benefit.

Until 3 months ago Michael Philpott shared his cramped three-bedroom semi-detached home with his wife, mistress and all 11 children he had with both women. He also fathered five other children from two other women.

Philpott and his wife Mairead and are charged with deliberately starting a fire that killed their remaining six Children after the mistress left taking her children and depriving him of the associated benefit money. The motive being to frame his ex girlfriend to get back custody of the children.

The prosecution opened with: ”He just wanted a house full of kids and the benefit money that brings.”:

A father killed six of his children in a house fire that was part of a ‘plan’ to frame his former mistress, a court heard yesterday.

Michael Philpott, 56, is accused of hatching a plot to set up Lisa Willis, 28, just hours before he was due to contest her application for custody of their five children in court.

Prosecutor Richard Latham QC said: ‘Michael Philpott did not want to work. He just wanted a house full of kids and the benefit money that brings.  Read more »

Whale army challenge. Today’s young people expect at age 25 to be able to afford a house and the Greens want to buy their vote.

They expect

- interest free student loans

- paid parental leave

- taxpayer “rent to buy” homes

- “working” for families

Add in the comments the other bludging welfare ideals now in the heads of these twerps.

You would think that people around the world had looked at the pending financial doom of western democracies mired in locked in welfare wouldn’t you?

Not India, they are hell bent on driving down the same dusty road of welfare:

The Indian government is handing out cash to the poor as part of a phased rollout of a scheme designed to replace some 30 welfare programmes. Initially 200,000 people in 20 districts will receive the money, but the government plans to cover the whole country by the end of 2013.

“Nothing less than magical, and a game changer for governance” is how India is selling the ambitious scheme in which an estimated 90 million households stand to receive around $58bn in cash.

Those living below the poverty line will receive between $542 and $723 a year.

Welfare isn’t magical…it created shackles worse than slavery.

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