Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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I'd been wondering if Ian Wishart was okay . . .
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Well meaning Winz staff and work scheme staff are not mental health professionals, so maybe its a really dumb idea to loose the destination between Unemployed people looking for work, and people who have been assessed by medical actual professionals, as being unwell.
I know someone with severe schizophrenia (invalids benefit) who volunteers as a receptionist at a Christian community centre. She has never had a paid job in her adult life and is basically unemployable, but I suspect a Winz staffer would look at her volunteer work and try and 'manage' her into the workforce, which would go pretty badly for everyone.
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have been trying to explain my 'new future' situation to people and not being able to do it well. now I'm just using your description of my new life as an empowered no longer referred to as an invalid.
My relative in his early 60s with a chronic heart condition would be excited to learn that he, too, is no longer an invalid who can barely walk - but a 'Jobseeker' who needs to be actively managed back into the workforce and transferred to a state work scheme if he fails to do so within six months.
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In the WWGs defence, they do concede that people with terminal illnesses should not be incentivised to re-enter the workforce.
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I hesitate in a serious thread to say this but – ‘Won’t someone please think of the children’?
The children are just the tip of the iceberg. Rebstock wants to transfer all 85,000 people off the invalids benefit, classify them as unemployed and then actively manage them back into the workforce, with financial penalties after six months if they're still jobless. If the penalties don't work then they could be transferred to a government work scheme.
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Our second largest city gets destroyed and John Key's poll ratings are the first thing you think about?
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That 14 weeks has to be a bluff.
I really don't think so - they chose it because its the duration of the paid parental leave. They're economists and they think they're solving the problem of long term benefit dependency by sending signals to influence behaviour.
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Well, to be fair Russell, I don't think Helen Clark . . .
Enter the Craigbot.
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We should remember the nature of this government (and most, to be honest). The report WILL be severe, so as to make the final recommendations "not so bad". Bait and switch, my friends, bait and switch. Try not to get too incandescent too soon.
I think the 14 weeks policy is so clearly insane it will have the opposite effect, and discredit the entire WWG project. If it's an attempt to shift the middle ground then it's doomed to failure.
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Also, marriage equality is a fucking no-brainer.
I have elderly relatives from working class backgrounds, who were life-long Labour voters until civil unions. Now they will never, ever vote for the Labour Party again. I don't think they're unusual for their generation - so when you're as poll-driven as Key then you really don't want to take a strong stand on an issue like that unless you have to.