Posts by Sacha
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Taxes
Socialist!
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But why out the other women for not living out of dumpsters?
Because it works, apparently.
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In case no-one already linked to it, here's the feisty Campbell Live piece last night including long-serving beneficiary advocate and MP, Sue Bradford, who raises the Minister's "duty of care".
And another piece of the jigsaw, from yesterday's Question Time:
What was the “lesson” that the Minister referred to on Close Up, on Television New Zealand last night, that the two solo mothers were to have learnt from speaking out on the cuts to the training incentive allowance; was the lesson that the Minister will clobber any pensioner or beneficiary who crosses her, or was the lesson that no private information is now private?
I would say neither of those. They have just taken assumptions that are there. The media can be a pretty vicious thing when one gets into the middle of it, and I suppose those women are seeing that now in quite how it has been. I suppose there is a lesson about what it might actually be like to allow the Labour Party to use a person as a political football.
So no one should be able to have their story repeated (without their involvement) by a political party the Minister dislikes? Surely it takes longer than 9 months to forget how little power most citizens have.
And wouldn't revealing the "full picture" about whether a particular beneficiary could afford to "invest" their own funds to make up for an allowance being cut also require knowing their expenditure, not just their income? I say the Minster just hasn't gone far enough yet.
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But how do I make money out of you being a citizen?
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ODT writes about Bennett breaching privacy, and is against it unlike the Harold and Dom.
In retaliation - there is no more appropriate description - Ms Bennett obtained the totality of the women's benefits, including their child support, from staff in her office and made the information public, without the knowledge of the women concerned.
By law, this information is collected for the purpose of administering benefits, not for entering the lists of political debate.
...It might well be asked whatever has happened to the usual ministerial riposte, that they do not comment on individual cases?
A week ago in Question Time:
It is pretty hard for me to comment on individual circumstances.
Safe to say she got over that.
Seems like there is dirt to dig about one of the two beneficiaries, so maybe the Minister did feel "provoked" after all. Needs more maturity about how she responds, regardless.
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Kerry, wonderful that something good came out that thread.
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With equal and apposite reactionaries..
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you CANNOT LEARN FOOD
Sure you can't eat it remotely. However, this Campbell Live story on creating a sunday roast was both instructive and entertaining - and who knew Hamish Keith had that string to his bow?
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the whole body language thing that is lost online
Not with decent broadband that supports high resolution real-time video rather than just typed text. Maurice Williamson still has a lot to answer for that we are so far behind.
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gung-ho
Ooh, ooh, I learned this one at the pub a couple of weeks ago. It came from Chinese cooperatives - Work Together-Work in Harmony.
And Rewi Alley helped transfer the phrase during WW2 to the US of A where they subsequently munged it until it became Rambo.
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