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| Auckland Today New Zealand howled in protest. The farmers and growers who produce our food and are the mainstay of our economy have had enough. And not just farmers and food growers. There were tradies and contractors out there on the tractors and in the utes, with their families, all fed up to the back teeth with rules and regulations dreamed up or imposed already by Ardern&Little, Death Dealers to the Nation. |
This Labour Government is conditioning us for Communism. And this Labour Government is dancing to the tune of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (aka Pope Francis) as he sings it in his latest encyclical Fratelli Tutti - aka, irreverently, as Tutti Frutti.
We must all be brothers. We must all be equalised. And the way to make us equal is to make us all poor. That's Bergoglio's dream, as enunciated by the World Economic Forum: "You'll own nothing, and you will be happy".
"The essence of communism is the totalitarian principle of equality: no one can have more than the other since it would produce “alienation.” Thus, the only way for everyone to be equal is for all to be poor: when all are poor, all are equal.
This egalitarianism is the key to understanding Pope Francis’s latest encyclical and the international event “The Economy of Francis” recently held in Rome. The event’s message is that poverty is the means. The goal is egalitarianism."https://www.returntoorder.org/2020/12/the-economy-of-francis-pushes-poverty-and-pulverizes-achievement/?pkg=rtoe1380
And hey, New Zealand is more than halfway down the field. Don't believe Ardern, Little&Co when they tell us the number of beneficiaries is down. Ardern, Little&Co lie in their teeth.
As Don Brash puts it:
"Yesterday, the Minister for Social Development Carmel Sepuloni waxed enthusiastic about the June quarter Benefit Statistics, which showed what she called a “continuing fall in the number of people receiving a Main Benefit”. Well yes, there was a fall between the end of the March quarter and the end of the June quarter but benefit numbers show a pronounced seasonal effect.
The real comparison should have been between the end of the June quarter of 2020 and the end of the recent June quarter. And that comparison would have revealed virtually no change in the number of those on a Main Benefit.
At the end of June 2017, shortly before the Labour-New Zealand First Government came to power, the number of those on Jobseeker Support was 118,776. To June 2021, the number is up a shocking 60%.
It is perhaps not surprising that there was a big increase in the number of those on Jobseeker Support between June 2017 and June 2020 given the impact of the pandemic.
Er, what pandemic? It seems even Mr Brash has been gulled. What he means surely, is the impact of this Government's hijacking of a moderately serious flu epidemic to suit its own evil agenda.
But why has there been no reduction in the number of those on Jobseeker Support between June 2020 and June 2021?
Migration has been slowed to a tiny trickle so New Zealanders are not being kept out of jobs by immigrants – on the contrary, employers in virtually every industry are screaming out for staff, including relatively unskilled staff to pick fruit and serve at tables in restaurants.
Having more than a third of a million adults dependent on a benefit at a time when employers are desperate for staff shows that there is something fundamentally wrong.
The number on Jobseeker Support has increased from 63,027 in June 2017 to 110,790 in June 2021 despite all the Government’s talk about “getting the ‘nephs off the couch” through the Provincial Growth Fund, despite the massive fiscal stimulus, despite the most stimulatory monetary conditions in New Zealand’s history, and despite the best export prices in a generation.
The high number of “unemployed but work ready” suggests that those on the benefit are not worth hiring at the minimum wage. They lack the skills or the work ethic to justify the direct and indirect costs of hiring them. They may not be able to read safety instructions or pallet labels. They may not turn up at the start of the work day, or follow simple instructions.
And the Government has greatly increased the risk to employers of taking on somebody with limited work experience by ending the previous arrangement where employers could end an employment relationship with few questions asked within 90 days if it didn’t work out. The Government now strongly discourages employers from taking on the unemployed.
After the benefit is lost, tax travel and lunch costs are paid, childcare and clothing costs are incurred, there isn’t much advantage in getting a job.
Being in long-term unemployment must be extremely demoralizing. Policy should be focused on radically reducing unemployment, by reducing the cost and risk to employers of taking on more staff.
The high minimum wage and inability to end an employment relationship are obstacles to reducing unemployment. Singapore and Switzerland – with no statutory minimum wage – have virtually no unemployment. No time limit on the Jobseeker Benefit also reduces the incentive for the unemployed to take a job. Several countries have a lifetime limit for an unemployment benefit.
In my first speech to the Orewa Rotary Club I floated then idea of instead of paying the unemployment benefit weekly or fortnightly, it should be paid daily, in cash, to all the unemployed who turn up at some central location and remained there all day to do whatever the local authority needed doing.
That would create a strong incentive to find more fulfilling work and prevent other jobs being done “under the table”.
https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/benefit-numbers-fall-really?postId=cb9dfa52-f85b-4841-b761-77ea20df7dcd#:~:text=The%20most%20radical,locked%20into%20dependency.
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And then, also presumably in the Robin Hood, Communist tradition of taking from the rich (you, the taxpayer) to give to the poor (Mongrel Mob meth addicts), Ardern, Little&Co will pay a Mongrel Mob-led meth rehabilitation programme $2.5m.
Participants will work on a “community garden” on the property of the president of the gang’s ‘’Notorious’’ chapter.
The garden is on a Waipawa property, home to Sonny Smith and his wife Mahinaarangi Smith, who is a programme facilitator.
"The irony of the insult couldn’t be greater with the Hawkes Bay Mongrel Mob meth rehab programme being funnelled $2.75 million from the Proceeds of Crime Fund – funding that is seized from the very gangs that are peddling meth in the first place," says Darroch Ball, co-leader of Sensible Sentencing Trust.
“In May this year Police seized $2 million in assets, drugs, and firearms, and made six arrests during a major operation in Hawke’s Bay – not surprisingly it was an 18-month investigation targeting senior members of the Mongrel Mob.
"Now the government has decided to give it back to them. It is mind-numbingly, bone-deep stupid.”
“The government has shown just how far out of touch they have become.”
“It’s not a hard concept to figure out that if the gangs weren’t dealing meth in the communities there would be no need for the funding in the first place. The gangs are the dealers.
We have skyrocketing gang numbers, shootings, violence, and gang activity on our streets and no funding for police recruitment. Our police officers are struggling for resources, recruits, and funding – and the government wants to give it to gangs instead."https://thebfd.co.nz/2021/07/12/2-75m-mongrel-mob-funding-mind-numbingly-bone-deep-stupid/
So that will help equalise New Zealanders, won't it? Jorge Mario Bergoglio will be thrilled to bits.
Our Lady of Mt Carmel, on your feast day, pray for us.
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