Posts by Petra
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If only they could just get around that little "minimum wage" inconvenience altogether, we'd all be rich.
There's definitely something quite sick about libertarians. Stuff the elderly and infirm; stuff the young and their mums; screw the workers - they only hold back the generation of wealth for those who deserve it most; family time? get over yourself! ...but we'll totally blame you if your kid screws up because you didn't *discipline* them enough, and it's your own fault that you couldn't afford an English nanny...etc.
They're so mean, and so short sighted (for all their bellyaching about a "better future". Wish they'd sacrifice a couple of generations from their own demographic for a change!)
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It's a little puerile, but I did laugh at this: 20 Worst Names In Political History
Well, OK, it's a lot puerile, but seriously, "Tiny Kox"?I'm only on the first one and I'm laughing!
"Dick Swett. Integrity in Congress" :D
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while working 60+ hour weeks
Including weekends, which is why the kids don't recognise you and the wife is having an affair/wanting a divorce/depressed. (take yer pick).
Job sharing. I'm all for it. If someone is working 60+ hours a week, then employ two people (where possible) instead.
Hmm, I might be a "commie" after all...
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Don Brash disagrees with you, DeepRed (though this of course is no surprise to anyone at all): The best economy, according to the Don, is the one that is structured to keep wealth (and education and health care) where it should rightly be: in the hands of rich white men.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Brashs-bitter-pill-for-New-Zealand-/tabid/419/articleID/184478/Default.aspx
[E]conomic reform could lead to “more health care, better education, [and] a cleaner environment”.
Oh, yeah. How does that work, then?
"It is critical to re-establish the mindset that markets, not governments, create wealth best.”
Wealth for who? ...need I really ask.
Some of the standout reforms he calls for include:Labour market reform should include reducing the minimum wage to 1999 ratios and extending the 90-day probationary period for employees to a year.
“Ambitious” welfare reform should be undertaken to reduce the number of people of working age receiving welfare benefits.
The retirement age should increase “progressively” to lower the future costs of New Zealand Superannuation.
Universal subsidies for doctor’s visits and prescriptions should be abolished and instead be related to income status or health of the individual.
Subsidies for Early Childhood Education introduced since 2005 should be reversed.
Fee caps on University fees should be removed and market-based interest rates reintroduced for student loans.
All Government owned businesses which operate in a market where competition is actual or feasible should be sold.
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund should be wound up and assets used to pay off Government debt.
Mining on sensitive Crown-owned land should be permitted as long as it is supported by cost-benefit analysis.
Restrictions on foreign investment should be loosened.
It's enough to make a beneficiary feel downright violent! -
Just want to say something before I head out the door, now that I've collected myself a bit. (You really opened a bit of a floodgate for me, Jackie - guess I've been brewing for a damned good cry, and your post was a catalyst I found myself unable to deny).
Anyway, aside from the self-pity that I posted earlier, I guess my real point is that if I feel this way, then so do many beneficiaries around the country - in Mangere and beyond. There must be so many who feel disenfranchised, isolated, 'put down', unworthy. They may have lost their sense of self, and wonder, too, where they *fit* in the wider community and in the job market. But this does not mean that they are useless, that they are a burden, that they are bad parents or bad people. They are simply people doing what they can with what they have, and they carry on - even if sometimes they look a bit rough around the edges and carry their heads low. They are real, and they and their children have value.
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Thank you.
I'm going to go for a walk in the forest now. Thank god the forest is there, so close to my door. It's wonderful place to hide and sob in.
Thank you.
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Do something proactive, instead of whining about "Enough is enough". If enough really is enough, then do something about it. Volunteer to work with prisoners, or in a womens' refuge. Give money or time to any number of organisations that work in commmunities to bring awareness. Work with people on budgeting, on parenting skills. Because once you do, you may understand that not everyone on a benefit is a child killer. Or are bad people. Or contribute to the violence statistics.
Yeah, really!
Hurrah, Jackie!
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One being a dearth of jobs for women that paid anything like reasonable wages.
This is still true today, as I've found out this year. (Earlier this year, I had to place my elderly 'aunt' into a home, after she'd be living with me since 2007 due to Alzheimers).
The jobs available to me now are low paying and in the weekend. (I don't mind working occasional weekends, but I have a family I also need to give time to). And weekends nowadays pay the same rate as non-weekend work.
...Man, I'd love a 'proper' job, I'm sick of being poor and isolated. :(
Women hardest hit by recession: http://www.3news.co.nz/Women-hardest-hit-by-rising-unemployment/tabid/421/articleID/115601/Default.aspx
Prior to taking on Lyn, I was doing okay raising my daughter and enjoying contract/part time weekday jobs at reasonable hourly/contract rates. That's dried up.
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that's not so much following as stalking. Because yes. Omnomnomnom.
lol
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The successes of Maggie Thacher wont convince me of a new dawn of gender equality ,she ruined a country
One could argue that that is exactly what makes her a gender equal.