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Regrettably NZ’s long term economic outlook isn’t good. I suspect we are in for a gradual decline in overall standard of living and will have limited scope to introduce many of the proposals in the interesting report on child poverty, Nanaia.
see: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/6739607/Crash-course-to-debt-doom
The poster says it all. Unbelievable the growing arrogance of National Ministers in the House! the devious avoidance of properly answering questions just goes to show how quickly they’ve taken to believing their own rhetoric. Helen might have been guilty of nanny state, but the current regime seem to be dragging us into a police state.. its a simple message Labour needs to repeat …National does not care about child poverty!
I remember this being an issue when I was at school (a low decile in Whakatane), that used to run a free breakfasts programme that had pretty good uptake. I was at secondary school roughly in line with the fifth Labour government (97-01 for me), and am pretty sure no one wanted the problem to exist then either!
It is an issue though. I personally donate money to Red Cross to help administer the programme in Auckland. Of course it raises the spectre, is it better for it to be philanthropic (where there is a chance worthy causes lose out because of marketing deficits or emotional pull versus actual need) or covered by central government from tax (where there is much less choice by the ‘donors’ how it’s targeted)?
My daughters attend a decile 5 primary school in Mangere Bridge Auckland, there are several children that they know of that do not get breakfeast, let alone lunch. My girls routinely give them something to eat from their lunch boxes, we put extra in their lunch boxes so they can do this..
This issue is far to complex to fix with a political poster. It’s sad that many kids go hungry, but a universal “throw money at it” fix is not going to fix the core problems.
Pete G, it’s sad that you would rather attack a poster raising awareness of the fact that the government has a horrible record on helping the poor and don’t even try to put up ideas to help.
Of course it makes life so much easier if we can deflect the suffering of others from the eye so that we can continue in our never-ending pursuit of useless trinkets.
Well, either you fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of political posters (they do not fix problems in and of themselves) or you just can’t resist any opportunity to misconstrue something to stick the knife in. I go with the latter.
Self-styled constructive centrist, Pete George.
Well, I suppose Key could go round all these people’s houses slapping them in the face and telling them to give their kids a feed before sending them to school, but it doesn’t sound like a job for the Prime Minister. Is Shearer planning to do that when he’s PM?
Unfortunately this is not a new phenomenon, with some MP’s thinking the reason is for vanity reasons
So many are aware of the issues unfortunately very few, and even less MP’s have any idea of a solution
http://tumeke.blogspot.co.nz/2008/04/horomia-fat-bastard-too-far.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10422940