Welfare reform will not protect the vulnerable children in NZ...

Image via WikipediaImage by Getty Images via @daylifeImage via WikipediaImage by nznationalparty via FlickrImage by nznationalparty via FlickrThe National Party's welfare reform will not improve CYF (Child Youth and Family) and protect our vulnerable children in this country. How many more maimed and dead children will stain the credibility of our nation's leadership.

Nationals welfare reform is all about benefit cuts - reducing money paid out to welfare beneficiaries through the taxes of the privileged and wealthy in NZ, not the interests of the poor of this country. New Zealand has become a mean-spirited society, and our politicians will live to regret it. If National wins this election this month, New Zealand will head for one of the biggest social shake-ups in our country's history, and it will have nothing to do with the so-called welfare reform - it will be about social reaction. That is something I will predict!

As a retiree in this country I'm becoming ashamed of the mean-spiritness that has permeated NZ society  in recent years. A nation is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable members - the young and the aged.

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