Many jobless people seeking work do not register
http://petesplace.blogtown.co.nz/2014/02/02/matt-mccarten-rose-tinted-view-cruel-fairy-tales-discussing-the-reality-of-unemployment-in-nz/
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Matt McCarten's view of unemployment in NZ - rose-tinted fairy tales...
http://petesplace.blogtown.co.nz/2014/02/02/matt-mccarten-rose-tinted-view-cruel-fairy-tales-discussing-the-reality-of-unemployment-in-nz/
Food parcel families made poor choices, said John Key...
Their poor choices were the fact they ate!
http://fmacskasy.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/portrait-of-a-clueless-politician/
http://fmacskasy.wordpress.com/2014/02/02/portrait-of-a-clueless-politician/
Thursday, January 30, 2014
So-called savings in Welfare are just smoke and mirrors...
The growing divergence between the numbers officially unemployed and those getting a benefit are highlighted in Mike Treen’s blog Billions of Dollars Stolen From The Unemployed . Worryingly the evidence around us suggests that a high price is being paid by those who have been excluded from or pushed out of the benefit system, but are not finding work.
When National embarked on a programme of ‘welfare reform’ in 2008 it justified it by raising alarm about the future cost of welfare. It decided to evaluate the success of these reforms, not by whether people’s lives were better, but by contracting a private actuarial firm at great expense to produce actuarial estimates of the future lifetime costs of the welfare system. Success is trumpeted by the Minister because these lifetime costs are apparently falling.
- See more at: http://thedailyblog.co.nz/2014/01/31/so-much-for-the-success-of-welfare-reform/#sthash.8FV29IKZ.dpuf
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Living dead capitalism...
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| It's Capitalism. (Photo credit: eyewashdesign: A. Golden) |
The American socialist, G.S. Evans, calls this “Living Dead Capitalism” – a capitalism no longer capable of addressing contemporary human obligations but which, by super-efficiently funnelling the fruits of its own automatising ingenuity upwards to the dwindling number of real persons directing investment flows, continuously concentrates the “surplus value” of its non-human workforce in fewer and fewer human hands.
Chris Trotter
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
National education policy will not teach hungry kids...
Deal with poverty first. Make sure kiwi children go to school with a full belly and ready to learn. A principal on a $100,000 bonus would not teach hungry children until the cows come home..
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