Tell Me Why I Don’t Love Fridays – Tara Te Heke
August 15th, 2009 at 9:52 am by Tara te HekeFriday’s aren’t very special when you are on the benefit. I mean you don’t work during the week so for me every day is a Saturday. I’ve got no money spare so I can’t go out and even if I could I’d have to find someone to sit the kiddies. The best we get is watching Sky and grabbing some takeaway or looking on the internet.
I sit at my window glancing down the street watching over mortgaged, over financed people arrive home from work after 7pm and I ask myself, why?
If Fridays are a huge relief then what are they a relief from? Working. If working is so horrible then why do people do so much of it? To buy their over priced homes, to drive in their over priced car so they can send their children to over priced schools in the hope they won’t turn out to be like me.
Then we have low income workers always upset about low pay, but what do they do about it? Join a Union to pay for someone else to go and bargain a higher pay rate so they can afford more debt on more things.
I ask Kiwiblog readers, why? Why do you bother working say more than 9-5pm five days a week. Does it get you anywhere? Does it make you more money than standard hours. Does your employer value your extra contribution? Is your small business making you money and therefore worth the effort, or is it all just a giant waste of time and effort?
If it is and you are disciples to the Friday evening, then why do you do it?
And don’t just answer to pay for people like me. That’s a cop out.
If I wasn’t here you’d be contributing to some other taxpayer funded scheme or whim. Because you are all the same. You all like paying tax else you would vote for parties like ACT that would make me get off my backside, hand me a mentor such as Muriel Bloody Newman and monitor my life like Gestapo.
You feel guilt. You feel as though taxation paid gives you cleansing of that guilt.
It shouldn’t. I watch you arrive home at 7pm on a Friday straight from the office and I keep wondering.
Why?
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August 15th, 2009 at 9:55 am
Tara, you and your posts are becoming increasingly lame. They don’t even have “wind up” value now.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 9:58 am
When a 2 post commenter says that you should listen Tara.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 9:59 am
Tara te Heke goes to market, eh mate.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:00 am
oh come on, it was bloody funny Brain. Especially the squealing from redsterbator.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am
Yep, taras baits a bit stale now
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:04 am
You lost me with “Friday’s aren’t very special when you are on the benefit.”. Next.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:08 am
I dont like mondays tell me why – use your imagination.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Nine more questions but no more answers.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:20 am
“The best we get is watching Sky and grabbing some takeaway or looking on the internet.”
Silly me. I always thought that the benefit was for essentials, not discretionaries.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Yes, I see it so clearly now. I’m glad you’re here to help me. I actually like paying tax. I wish I’d realised it earlier, then I wouldn’t have had to feel so GUILTY. Some of this post had potential – why do people work as much as they do, when is enough money enough. But the bits about tax show how out of touch with real life you are.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Tara, an unsurpassable sleep-inducing posting. Yawn.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:31 am
Some people are just plain workaholics, others hope to set promotion or apply for higher paid jobs. There was an admin type in New York who had a stranglehold on almost all decision making in a company – he thought he was doing a great job for the company but management finally realised he was strangling the company. They forced him to use up his leave and re-delegated his authorities to others. However when he returned, he soon managed to regain his stranglehold. Management then ‘retired’ him giving him an extremely generous departure package. He could not bear the thought of that and threw himself on the subway tracks.
There was also the story of an admin type in one of the NZBC regional radio stations. He was caught falsifying his leave card – claiming to take leave when he was at work. The manager had to take his keys off him when he went on leave to stop him coming back to the office in the evenings.
What stinks in my view is law offices, consultants etc who expect staff to work extra hours when this is charged to clients but goes straight into the partners’ or owners’ pockets. Young peofessionals tend to tolerate this nonsense in the hope of a partnership.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:32 am
Some people live well within their means and have enough left over to do other things they enjoy.
You must know that sterotypes applied to beneficiaries aren’t necessarily fair. Generalisations about workers and business people are just as unfair.
Some people enjoy their work.
Some people resent paying taxes to help people who can’t or won’t help themselves because they earn little, if anything more, from their jobs than they would on a benefit.
Fortunately, most people understand that unless most of us work and pay taxes there would be nothing for health, education and other things we consider necessary including benefits for people who usually can’t, though sometimes won’t, support themselves.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Haha now I’m sure this is a joke.
DPF, can you put this under a humour tag?
This one’s actually pretty funny, I like it. Why work if you can bludge your whole life indeed?
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:34 am
IV2 – How’d that troll bait taste? Patrick reckons it’s stale.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:37 am
But seriously DPF, its not being very nice on your guests. KB has been painful since you’ve been gone- a once-a-day general debate, one or 2 good posts from Jadis, and then your little prank which is Tara
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:45 am
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Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:46 am
agree nickb, Jadis’s posts have been pretty good
Taras like reading Philu – (without the dots)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Haha but the rest have been…. well….
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:52 am
If we assume that this isn’t an extended DPF joke (which I doubt it is), then I think Tara is achieving the opposite of what she’s trying to achieve. I can only assume the intent was to give a view from the other side, and hopefully result in us questioning whether some people on a benefit are genuinely there. Unfortunately, so far Tara has achieved the opposite – displaying as Patrick says all the same pathologies as PhilU – entitlementitis, and lots of poorme-isms.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:57 am
It is utterly repugnant, when beneficiary’s enjoy a higher standard of living than those who pay for said bludgers.
This post encapsulates all that is wrong in this country.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I know this is supposed to be some sort of bait, and really I agree with just about everyone who has posted already, but I _will_ bite, albeit gently.
I work at a job that is more of an avocation, than a vocation. I genuinely enjoy most of the different aspects, which change regularly. The only part I don’t like is admin, usually required by others trying to justify their jobs.
I could not imagine being on the benefit. I would likely go out and do volunteer work, help others, get new education (although I would probably be told I was already overeducated), work at just about anything to do with books, … you name it. I would not sit around watching others go out. Then again, I don’t have children at home anymore, but I would have probably dragged them along. (I sometimes did anyway!
)
Oh, and I do not feel guilty. I worked hard to get where I am. No guilt at all.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:01 am
This woman is an absolute fucking idiot.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:02 am
PaulL – can you really see DPF passing over editorial control of his blog to someone who is charged with re-educating folks on the plight of the welfare dependent? It’s not his style, and given his perfectly legitimate “my blog, my rules” comment a while back I sure can’t see this.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Of the whole post, this is what upsets me most:
So if there was no television, no takeaway store and no internet your life wouldn’t be worth living? Go buy a kite, a ball and racket, go swimming at the subsidised swimming pool, go for a walk, volunteer to take your neighbours dog for a walk (hell they may give you some cash for doing so), invite friends around to play cards, build something, make something, do anything! You may just find that trying some things that seem to have no reward may bring you the very reward you don’t seem to understand. If you didn’t have Sky, you’d have a lot of money to do some amazing things with your children, instead, you squander it on the cycle of lazyness and dependancy.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Simple, because we have standards, we have aspirations for our families, and we don’t plan to bludge our lives away while claiming our own shit choices are someone elses fault.
Do you think we *enjoy* fucking slaving away our lives!
next.
Christ I hope this idiot is a wind-up.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Please remind me what SKY costs?
Who is paying for it, from a nil discretionary income, Winz I suppose?
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
After “Middle Class Witches” I thought something was up. But this post is so inflammatory, ignorant, bigoted and hateful I cannot really believe any normal person could be this fucked up and bitter:
“If Fridays are a huge relief then what are they a relief from? Working. If working is so horrible then why do people do so much of it? To buy their over priced homes, to drive in their over priced car so they can send their children to over priced schools in the hope they won’t turn out to be like me.”
Uh yes Tara (if you are real, which I doubt) if working hard and providing for my kids was the price I would pay to avoid them turning out to be a fucked up bitter bludger (like your fictional character) I would certainly class it as a good investment.
My favourite one is this:
“If I wasn’t here you’d be contributing to some other taxpayer funded scheme or whim. Because you are all the same. You all like paying tax else you would vote for parties like ACT that would make me get off my backside, hand me a mentor such as Muriel Bloody Newman and monitor my life like Gestapo.
You feel guilt. You feel as though taxation paid gives you cleansing of that guilt.
It shouldn’t. I watch you arrive home at 7pm on a Friday straight from the office and I keep wondering.”
Hahahah classic. That seems like DPF humour to me, dont know bout u guys…
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:19 am
At least its better trolling than philu, and funny at that
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I think I have this worked out, “Tara” is actually Phool.
For some reason DPF thought it would be funny to wind up some of his readers.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:28 am
Haha it is a possibility bruv, but could he really write a whole…
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August 15th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Superb parody. The wit is dryer than the Sahara.
For all we know Russell B laid a bet with DPF about winding up the “troll farm” while DPF is on holiday.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 11:55 am
so caricatured..so ‘false’..such a wind-up..so cliched..so obvious..
(but you ‘got me’ in that earlier one..eh..?..)
did you push all the buttons..?
(you should have mentioned the beer/pizza on the lawn again..silly you..!..you left that out..)
..’tara’ is white..and likely male…and is quite possibly dpf himself..
and hilarious how some of you righties ‘believe’ this is a real person..
..and use it as your launching pad for the usual bile..
and just quietly..
..how could this example of a pretending to be a benificiary..
.to just swell the hatred/prejudices that are already there..
..how could this not be despicable behaviour..?
..and it is in no way a ‘jolly jape’..
..but is an example of the worst sort of yellow/gutter-journalism..
..and is a perfect twin to the greens/abortion ‘satire’..(authored by our ‘host’)
..and it is just really sick..and really sad..
..(and really dpf..!..this exercise in benificiary-baiting/bashing will enhance the mana..of you/kiwiblog..?..
..really..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Fuck OFF Philu, You are just a complete twat!
You are dole scum, and of the very worst variety!
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Tara – Perhaps to make yourself more believable to some you should have told us you buy dope with your benefit
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
getstaffed: I see logic something like this.
1. DPF wants a holiday (actually, I suspect the new partner wanted him to have a holiday, and one without blogging)
2. He can’t just shut the blog down, so he decides to get some people to post while he’s gone
3. He looks for people he knows who write well, and who might have something interesting or provocative to say
4. He gets someone to cover politics, someone to do some opinions “from the right” as it were, and someone to do some non-politics stuff. And, someone who’s been complaining about how righties have no idea how the other half lives, he thinks, sure, what the hell, give them a go.
I’ve been visiting here for a while. DPF is a pretty straightup guy. I don’t see him going for an extended prank with someone who flat out lies about who they are. It isn’t his style. I do see him thinking it might be interesting to have an alternate view, I doubt he would have realised how f**d up that view was.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Been tokin before lunch time again Phil?
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
When I get back, I will do everything in my power to get your benefits stopped!
EVERYTHING!
You are symptomatic of so many things that are wrong with the benefits system.
Enjoy your last few weeks of lifestyle. It will end sooner that you think.
Heavens to murgatroyd you might have to even work.
With the amount of time you spend on here and on your own blog, you have given me the perfect audit trail to dob you in.
Wastrel!
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I have a job and work so I can’t afford Sky or takeaways.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Cool. So we now know it’s not somebody from the left writing bigoted, stereotypical posts…. it’s someone from the right pretending to be from the left writing bigoted, stereotypical posts.
If would have been funny if it had been funny.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
gluty..!..yr back..!
(we hardly had time to miss you…darling..)
what’s next..?
one of yr customary threats of physical violence..?
meh..!
phil(whoar.co.nz)
(stand well back everyone..!
..i think glutys’ gonna ‘blow’..)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
“I sit at my window glancing down the street watching over mortgaged, over financed people arrive home from work after 7pm and I ask myself, why?”
She makes a point. The willingness that people burden themselves with debt these days doesn’t make a lot of sense. Is having a bank as your master that much different from having the state as your master? They are both pretty unforgiving. I can understand young people taking on mortgages to provide for their family’s future but I really can’t get my head around fifty year olds taking on thirty year mortgages in order to become slaves to the car badge or over capitalise on renovations. The whole concept of work and reward is freedom and the choice that comes with that; voluntary slaves much like beneficiaries have few choices.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
Just going to make your life different in future.
That will be my quest.
Pity the drugs screwed what must have been a fine brain at one time!
Your smug bastard attitude is repulsive. So as long as you don’t mind having your money cut off. Everything will be fine.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I do vote ACT, and I don’t like paying tax.
You Tara are a robber of my life and liberty, every year I spend about half the year working to fund people like you.
It’s time you got a job and do something useful with your life.
I don’t care if you don’t want a big house, or a flash car, and give all your money away, but a least you would earn it, and not steal my life and liberty away from me.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
“The best we get is watching Sky and grabbing some takeaway or looking on the internet.”
Sounds like my Friday. Except my working week had been so long that I fell asleep watching the news.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
‘It is utterly repugnant, when beneficiary’s enjoy a higher standard of living than those who pay for said bludgers.”
Yes, and even more.
Bludgers of this ilk claim louder and louder for more “entitlements and benefits”. The parasites are ungrateful to the people who pay for their miserable existence.
The pair around here constitute a perfect example of misuse / abuse of welfare benefits.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Tara:
I used to be where you are — on the DPB.
But even then I wouldn’t have written such a ‘poor me, poor me feel sorry for me’ piece as you have done.
It’s a parody, right?
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Even better when the likes of Phool laughs in workers faces!
For having the decency of going to work, and trying to earn an honest crust.
Phool, you are going to have to make the most of your cashflow until it stops, and stop it will!
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Tara te Heke IS real.
The fake is David Farrar.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Why do you bother working say more than 9-5pm five days a week. Does it get you anywhere? YES.
Does it make you more money than standard hours. YES.
Does your employer value your extra contribution? YES.
Is your small business making you money and therefore worth the effort? YES.
O is it all just a giant waste of time and effort? NO.
Tara, aka the prankster, your lamentable questions show how detached you are from reality.
Whatever time you’ve spent on the dole has addled your brain. Get a job, self-esteem and dignity first.
Vote:Only then you will have the moral authority to comment.
August 15th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Tara you seem well qualified for the Green Party…You could fill in your time bone carving or making grass skirts and flax bags though don’t forget your ancestor relieved his boredom by chopping down flagstaffs.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
I wonder if Tara has ever considered that if NZ didn’t have a system that takes care of every man and his dog ( welfare ) those returning home at 7pm could probably be home at 3pm. News flash Tara, the bloody government takes so much of working peoples income they actually have to work twice to three times harder to pay the bills. Please think about this next time you look out of the window and pity the poor workers.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Philu, you really picked on one of the few folks that will change your life.
Not so smug anymore are we?
Hope you have a wonderful time before it all stops.
Can’t be much wrong with you if you spend so much time on here berating the new Government.
Working will be a novelty.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
This post really looks like a provocative set up.
But just in case it’s for real – it just could be – here is a tip.
Drop the Sky and takeaways and put the money into the internet, and build a little business you can work on while the kids are sleeping. Do that, and this time next year you will almost certainly have forgotten what it is like to need a benefit, or for that matter a job.
Just a couple of hours a day is all it should take …
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Busted Blonde qualifies as the ghost writer Tara Te Heke. Ngai Tahu born and bred, right wing by nature. Loves a wind up.
Vote:Likes DPF and not on holiday I don’t think.
And probably doesn’t like Fridays at work either when she could be over at the farm.
August 15th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
I really don’t mind going in to work every day – it’s the 9 hours I have to wait before I can head home again that gets to me.
Actually – I really enjoy my job – strange concept but I’m sure I’m not alone.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
“Why do you bother working say more than 9-5pm five days a week”
Many do it either to raise extra money for their basic needs or something extra they want, or because it is a requirement of the job and it does not pay to be too choosey.
I worked for well over twenty years and was not required to work excessive overtime; not much more than on-call and the occasional weekend.
My motivation was enjoyment of the work for its own sake and a sense of achievement and contribution to society (however indirect). Of course I needed the money like everyone else
I am in a similar situation now to Tara, being out of work, but I can’t wait to get back into it!!
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Having worked a (normal) 14 hour night last night I don’t get the joke.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
On a further note, since I am looking for work, I structure this work search activity around the working week, so in fact I look forward to the weekend too!
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Your posts annoy me in so many ways I can’t be bothered to go through them all.
As a woman at home raising kids also, I have to say you made some really bad choices with your life. Suck it in and move on. Let’s get one thing straight…
Every woman at 19 could have had the opportunity to get pregnant.
Not everyone enjoys work at all times, but it is neccessary for independence, freedom, self esteem etc.
I don’t care how old your kids are, get off your backside and go help yourself for the sake of your kids! The State does not need them following by your example of bitterness towards others who choose to get out and do a decent days work!
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Viking2, I agree. If not her, then similar.
Amazing so many are taking anything she has written here seriously.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Why¿
We are the Borg, prepare to be assimilated.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Tara I warned you on a previous post to quit while you are ahead. Seems you ignored my advice. You, and the many others like you are the reason for the brain drain, why there is an incentive for productive individuals to avoid the next tax bracket, and why those who are able do anything they legally can to minimise thier tax burden.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Tara’s right.
If you actually wanted to do something about this you’d vote ACT.
Instead, you’ll all whine when Bill brings in a Capital Gains Tax, and then vote him back in in 2011.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Why not publish your posts in the MSM and see what kind of reception you get. If you don’t want to be stereotyped, then don’t provide the ammunition.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Why? because we have aspiration, self esteem, determination and independence. And, we’re proud of that.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Lazy bitch. The reason why NZ is fucked. I work 2 jobs one full time and the other part time ..average 60 hours a week. I resent paying 33% tax on my secondary income. I have 2 children . My wife and I do up houses and sell them for a bit of extra cash on the side. We are both 43. We do not sit around watching sky , eating t/aways , drinking piss , screwing the system. We have a plan and soon we are quitting NZ , cashing up and heading to asia to live. Turning our backs on this bludge hole for good. I cant see it getting any better here. Tara and whore a welcome to it.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
starboard, where in Asia? I recommend Thailand or the Philippines. Mind you I am single.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Thailand..my wife is Thai and we have a plot of land at Hua hin
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Enjoy mate, you are making the right decision.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Tara is just a wind up no doubt.
Vote:However Starboard has the right idea,NZ is fucked if you haven’t got dependents the taxman will screw you FOREVER.
As soon as i can sell my business (1-2 years)my wife and I are out of here until we retire back.
We are just bloody sick of supporting all of the lazy.
August 15th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
There’s more than a whif of Cactus Kate in this.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Why the hell did DPF give his WordPress login to Cactus Kate?
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
This is one of those posts where unless the author participates in the ongoing discussion, it is nothing but a troll invitation.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
while Im on my soapbox..I also resent payin taxes year after year after year only to be knocked back by acc when I did an arm injury at work ” pre existing condition..sorry ” yea right..but if I commited a crime and injured myself Id be covered.
Vote:Pay taxes pay taxes..get to retirement age only to find the goal posts been shifted..sorry we’ve increased it to 70…but if you are on the dole/sickness/dpb and you make it to 70..bingo pension…off one benefit and onto another ( that you’ve never contributed to cos you aint paid any taxes cos ya been a bludger all ya life like whore ). Fucks me off…generally a law abiding citizen driving down the street..get pinged for doin 60 in a 50 zone…while some fucktard drivin a subaru wrx screams by with a loud exhaust doin 80 knowing that if he gets nailed he wont have to pay his fines cos the soft cock judge will wipe ‘em…and finally…you can murder a poor woman by drowning her ..call it some wishy washy maori witchcraft name and end up gettin community service…its all got me fucked.
August 15th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Doesn’t matter if Tara is real or not, or if it’s a wind up or not.
Point is I know some people on benefit who have the same attitude.
I regularly get comments from some that they are fed up with the the movies on sky as they’ve seen them all and for what ‘they’ pay for sky there should be a better selection…
by the way, my wife works in a post shop, every week people come in and say they want to draw out some of their ‘wages’ turns out that it is a benefit. Do they think wages is a benefit or vice versa?
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
manolo believes she is ‘real’..
and rose to the bait..
..like a sucker..
and gluty..
take a pill..eh..?
it can’t be good for yr blood-pressure..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Hey starboard if you are not at work then I suggest you stop reading this post and enjoy your rare day off. Most of us would agree with everything you have written. Unfortunately with the current Government you are preaching to a pack of vote concious mongrels.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Indeed Tookinator – one only has to look at Phillip Ure to know that here are beneficiaries out there who have no desire whatsoever to better themselves and become productive members of society.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
philu not all of us resort to chemicals. Some of us work, exercise, eat the right foods, and generally feel good about ourselves.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
yeah murray m..”
i’m just back from yoga..then taking the ‘boy’ to his soccer game..(they won..)
(for breakfast i had my magic porridge…
..and avocado on toast for lunch..
you were saying..?
now i must go and do some aggregating..eh..?
don’t let yr prejudices get in the way of reality..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
and murray m..
i can presume you are a teetotaller/totally sober..?
..a ‘cleanskin’..
otherwise..?
hypocrisy thy name is murray m…
eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Nah not Cactus.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
No philu, I like my beer, never anything stronger passes my lips. The difference is I pay for my pleasures out of my own pocket. You however spend someone else’s money.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Hey philu while we are at it. Has your daughter who runs her own business offered you a job yet? If not, why not? Here lies philu, spent nearly his entire life being nothing but a fucken lazy useless c**t.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
You guys have pretty much given her what she wants: an omission that you can’t justify the fact that you are slaves to a mortgage. I mean I’m not saying this is a bad thing, but none of you have actually answered the question posed by this post: Why do you do what you do? (and sub-question, why do you live how you live?)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
SWT, at 65 it will be good to own your own home considering state pensions are not enough to cover rent. I have a mate that works at WINZ and every week over 65′s who pissed all thier money away come in seeking emergency grants for rent, power, food, piss and pokies. I say fuck the pathetic shits. This is why we spend our working lives being a “slave” to the mortgage.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
“..Murray M (320) Vote: Add rating 1 Subtract rating 0 Says:
August 15th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
No philu, I like my beer, never anything stronger passes my lips..”
oh..!..so you are a bleeding hypocrite then..
..you are fucken alcohol-user..!
how dare you criticise someone who only smokes pot..
..and on fucken ‘sobriety’-grounds..!
would you like me to re-load for you..?
so you can shoot yrself in yr other foot..?
how’s the beer-pot,..?..darling..?
can you balance a pint on it..?
yet..?
(heh-heh..!..)
brilliant..!
“..not all of us resort to chemicals..”
cd you get someone to take you to one side..to explain that alcohol..is strictly..a ‘chemical’..eh..?)
that you ‘like’..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
and i think that’s called a ‘slam-dunk’..
eh darling..?
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Leonidas said “It is utterly repugnant, when beneficiary’s enjoy a higher standard of living than those who pay for said bludgers”.
Now now, that’s no way to speak of the Hon Bill English. Just because he’s on a $250,000 income and owns a mansion is no reason to deny him access to taxpayer funded handouts.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Phil U is right in saying that ‘Tara’ is a total cliche and is perpetuating stereotypes.
I don’t agree that DPF intended that.
I think this caricature was intended to challenge so-called ‘right wing’ collectivist thinking.
But it was so amateur and lacking subtlety it backfired badly.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
murray m’..
you need to read this..
http://whoar.co.nz/2009/marijuana-is-safer-so-why-are-we-driving-people-to-drink/
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
CH3CH2OH ethyl alcohol, legal and under government control. philu it’s always pissed me off that there are tests for drivers under the influence of ETOH, but herb head wankers and methadone “clients” can drive their cars with impunity. Hopefully the times are changing. And please answer my question.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
well muzza m..that’s because pissed drivers are dangerous..
..stoned (on herb) drivers aren’t..
and yr argument has jumped from sobriety-grounds..to who pays for it..?..to ‘it’s illegal!’..
quite the moveable feast..
isn’t it..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
go and inject yaself with round up whore…my shout…
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
And don’t just answer to pay for people like me. That’s a cop out.
oh fuck off you self-indulgent whiner. what are these posts? a lame attempt to gather material to help you finish your sociology degree? if so, here’s a tip, you’d be better off on the dole.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
philu i have displayed a certain amount of intelligence. In your next comment please show us the chemical formula for THC. And also answer the question.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Well we just had to cancel sky because it is a luxury. Still, I have my work, and my health and my family, eh?
Vote:Frankly I don’t give a shit about anything else.
August 15th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
“.philu i have displayed a certain amount of intelligence..”
frankly..that’s a highly debatable claim..
eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
For a while I used to give -ve kama to philuseless then I twigged he is the “original no such thing as bad publicity” so I stopped even pausing to assist in helping him to waste oxygen. Makes for an even faster trip through the comments. As for Tara if its a joke I havn’t seen anything funny, if its a parody it is piss poor and if it is for real then there are many opportunities for her to use her obvious skills around her family unless of course it is a full days effort to produce what we see here. The total lack of feedback indicates to me that the latter may be the case.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
This post makes me appreciate right wing ideologies. For me it only cements the right wing values in my mind, and perhaps even moves my views futher along the continuum.
The self satisfaction of providing for ones own family stems fron the beginnings of civilisation. Can you imagine the survival rates of hunter/gathers who decide not to assist the rest of the tribe? Slim to none I imagine. Try implementing voluntary taxes to support people with attitudes similar to Tara’s. Good luck paying for Sky then Tara…
Having a job not only brings in an income, but is a way of achieving the top two needs in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Some would say having a job is the only way to become truly satisfied with life.
The dole has its place in society, but the thought of people wasting their money on Sky and takeaways while laughing at the very people who pay for this in taxes at the same time as doing their best to provide for families makes me sick. If you want to be satisfied with your life, get a job or perhaps get an education, anything that provides a goal to strive for. You will find your life will be greatly enriched, as well as benefiting the wider society.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Neebone, yours is the silliest comment I’ve seen in a long time.
Yes, the state and the bank are different. Paying your taxes and paying your mortgage are very, very different things. In fact I can’t think of anything that is similar about them, other than regular withdrawals from your bank account.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
The dole has its place in society, but the thought of people wasting their money on Sky and takeaways while laughing at the very people who pay for this in taxes at the same time as doing their best to provide for families makes me sick.
Yes.
Nailed it. I couldn’t figure out what bugged me so much about this post. You got it.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Tara I don’t know if you’re real but I think it is out of line that so much is given to you and so little is returned. Your sense of entitlement is palpable. The money you receive was earned not by you but other productive people. Some of them probably earn less than the income you receive. Some of them don’t have internet or Sky, I suspect.
So I think your attitude is out of line. When you start to contribute you’ll find a more receptive response. Some of us are supremely annoyed by the welfare state and the inequity and perverse outcomes it produces, and you appear to embody much or all of what is so offensive about it.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
psstt..!..ben..!..(said in homer simpson stage-whisper..)..she’s not ‘real’..
eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
…double the dose whore…
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Hey Tara – shut the fuck up.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
You’ve lost my sympathy now Tara. How dare you (if you even exist) preach to us about why we don’t like working. Even though we may not like our employment situations, at least we know that we are trying to contribute to the economy and society. How about you focus on getting yourself out of the muddy predicament you’re in instead of pulling us into it. Make yourself a success story.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Now Tara think how lucky you are … if you get your finger out and use your undoubted brain power you can look forward to a job whereas me and all the pensioners have nothing to look forward to but death, unless you are like some of my freinds who say they will have to live to 120 years to complete all the projects they want to do. As I suggested awhile back, get to know your fellow dole’es, organise your life outside of the basic child care and you too could have the satisfaction of doing something outside or inside the home. You have taken the first step in being willing to write for David, now look for somewhere to put the other foot in front of the first one.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
“..Glutaemus Maximus (2141) Vote: Add rating 7 Subtract rating 0 Says:
August 15th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Even better when the likes of Phool laughs in workers faces!
For having the decency of going to work, and trying to earn an honest crust..”
where did i say/do that..?
i have never said/done that..
could you stop just making shit up..?
oh..!..hang on..!..that’s what made-up-tara said eh..?
bit confused..?..are you..?
just drunk lots of piss..?..have you..?
(stand well clear..incoming sodden-rave..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Tara you need to untie David it won’t do you any good, please Tara let him go.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Tara, you are the best campiagn idea of why people should vote ACT.
A few ads of you bludging of the taxpayer, laughing at those idiots will really win over people to the ACT party.
Not that I don’t wish you every success in life if you applied yourself.
Anybody in this country who wants to roll his or her seleves and works hard will get ahead.
Even Phil smoking pot all day, even he sounds more of a success story than you do at the moment.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
In the words of Andy Warhol
‘All that matters is work’
For me, life without work is misery.
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Mark, that’s why I think it adds some value for Philu to keep commenting here. The likes of Philu’s abuse of the system, and the publicity of likes of Natasha Fuller etc etc are important to keep in the public eye
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
patrick..the vile/odious personal abuse that you and many other righties use as your excuse for dialogue/debate/arguments..
..couldn’t be a more potent example of how act/national/the right..are the ‘nasty’ parties..
keep up the good work..!
..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
and..do you ever make any comments that aren’t just personal attacks on me..?
where would you be without me..eh starr..?
nothing..just a hollow-man..
with nothing to say..
i define you..
..(what there is..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
no Phillip Ure – you “keep up the good work..!”
The more you brag about your drug taking benefit financed lifestyle – the quicker your end will come. Over the last couple of years you’re doing just great
Vote:August 15th, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Tara – what’s your take on middle east politics? Anybody up for a Religious discussion?
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 1:36 am
This article is probably a wind up, but if it isn’t, this is how I would respond:
“Friday’s aren’t very special when you are on the benefit. I mean you don’t work during the week so for me every day is a Saturday. I’ve got no money spare so I can’t go out and even if I could I’d have to find someone to sit the kiddies. The best we get is watching Sky and grabbing some takeaway or looking on the internet.”
“I sit at my window glancing down the street watching over mortgaged, over financed people arrive home from work after 7pm and I ask myself, why?”
To enable people like you to continue to replicate without restraint, Pay your power, phone and internet bills, and pay your sky TV bill, that’s why.
Why else?
Bill
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 2:04 am
Tara, you’re damn lucky there are people like us who work because if we were all like you there’d be no money to pay you!
You don’t have any money to spare to go out on a Friday night? You poor baby… Do you know how many working people are in the same position?? People who also need to look after their kids? I would say most people in New Zealand would stay at home on a Friday night, and I’d say most would want to. May I ask though, what you’re doing with Sky if things are so tight with money? You complain that you can’t afford to go out on a Friday night, but you can afford to pay for Sky TV. Hypocrisy? I work and I don’t have Sky!
Why do people work so much? To be able to earn enough money to support their families. To live! Not everyone wants to rely on someone else and receive a benefit. Some people want to be able to live their lives independently. For some people to even be able to afford to pay for the necessities such as rent, groceries, bills, and kids, they need to work more than a 40 hour week. It’s not just the minority who do it so they can buy things they don’t need. I’ve heard of many women in the exact same position as you working more than a 40 hours week on minimum wage to provide for their kids the best they can. They’re not at home feeling like they’re somehow entitled to a benefit. They have a sense of pride, ambition, and want to get ahead. Tara, you need to realise that life requires hard work, and to be able to live, sometimes people need to work more than 40 hours a week.
Why do I work more than a 40 hour week? Because I’m trying to get ahead in life. I’m not buying things I don’t need like you’d assume I would. I’m saving it so I can buy a house for my family. Is it bad to want the best for my family? I work my butt off for them, and I shouldn’t have to put up with people like, who rely on taxpayers like me, trying to make me feel bad about it. I work my butt off, so yes, I do enjoy Fridays where I get a break and get to spend time with my family.
Where do you get off telling me that I like paying tax? I don’t like paying it! And I can support National and still want you off your benefit. We pay far too much tax in this country for things we don’t need, or for things that should receive funding from elsewhere.
What on earth do I have to feel guilty about? Please tell me what I’ve done. I have done nothing to feel guilty about, so I feel no guilt what so ever. You are where you are today because of you. No me or anyone else. The decisions you’ve made during your life got you to where you are today. I think the deadbeat father of your children should be paying child support to you, I think you should be off your benefit, and I think we should therefore be paying less tax.
Your problem Tara, is that you blame the world for your problems, and therefore have this massive sense of entitlement. You feel like the world owes you. You are where you are today because of you, and only you. And unless your realise that, your life won’t change. Gain a sense personal responsibility.
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 9:23 am
consider yourself ‘wound-up’..eh maxpower..?
you are raiing at a wraith…
at an ugly exercise in race/benificiary-baiting/bashing/yellow-journalism….
..nothing more..
(but..theraputic.?..was it..?..having a bit of a vent..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 9:28 am
You have to remember that WINZ uses those very terms. Benefit days are called Pay Days. Beneficiaries are called Clients. The terminology needs to be changed. Clients generally generate income for a business. WINZ is not a business.
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 9:30 am
DPFs non-comment on any of the Tara bashing seems to me to indicate his participation in a wind-up. Remember that Tara is not Tara’s real name – she admitted that already. Remember she was worried that limosine loads of right wing nutters would descend on her front lawn beer party and offer her a job.
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 9:36 am
y’know..i don’t really think that every person who votes/ed national is a heartless-race/benificiary-bashing bastard..
..or is accurately represented by the rightie-bile evident here..
and i am sure many of them..readers here..
will be disturbed by this tara-exercise..by mr farrar..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 9:41 am
Tara te Heke, Stop bullshitting us with this pseudo deep and meaningful questioning. YOU are the one with the problem. Not the people going to work. We know why we do it and we know why we like Fridays. So do you. If you had worked at the meat works, physically hard and wearying work, you too would have happy-houred with your mates at the end of your week. Your rage at the world is a product of your failure. Nobody else’s.
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 9:46 am
and you really have to ask the next question..
is he so used to manpulating/driving/distorting/colouring/fudging/distracting issues..for political gain..
..that going on that track record..
..he feels his readers are his ‘pawns’..?
..to play with/manipulate as he sees fit..?
..hence..’tara’..
i mean..w..t.f..!
how can that whole exercise not be viewed as the ugliest of/in race/benificiary-abuse/bashing..?
(and..this is the bit that really gobsmacks me..)
how did he not think this through..
and not see this ineviitable outcome..
(‘holy shot-credibility..!..batman..)
he has effectively painted himself into a ‘redbaiter-corner’..
..and all he says must now be viewed through this lense..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Look tara it really is all the welfare that you are stealing off us that is holding you back.
You need to get off the benefit. There is probably plenty of good bridges to sleep under near by where ever it is you like. And seeing as you are brown, you probably have way too many children. With proper rationing, you could feed the rest of your family with one of them, probably making each last 2 weeks (so long as you start with the biggest ones)
Once you start living like this, you will get the proper price signal for your unemployment, and will instantly have the will and ability to get a job. Solved, next!
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Smartest thing Racer has ever posted, even if it owed a bit to Swiftt.
Vote:August 16th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
I work with Bennys all the time who come into my office for advice and they actually agree, Fridays are nowhere as special for them as they are for us. While Tara might be an unintentionally great advertisement for the ACT party, you got to at least cut the lady a bit of slack. When DPF gets back he may have to re-evaluate his decision to hand his blog over to these newbies. Didn’t Farrar say they were people who were not bloggers? Maybe next time bring in some professionals.
Vote:August 17th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I would like to think that most people in jobs think that they are, in a least some small way, making a difference – making the world a slightly better place. The jobs and employers that rate the highest aren’t the ones that pay the most.
My wife rang me at work the other day to say one of my workmates who lives up the street was walking home and why couldn’t I be home at that time too! I very rarely work longer than a 40 hour week but I do make some allowance on my timesheet for the fact that not every hour at work is actually spent doing work.
Vote:August 17th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
This can’t be serious, right?
Personally, I think we can all agree that sometimes people need a hand-up. But it’s getting silly. I think that folk on the dole should no longer get paid cash-money.
Instead give food vouchers (that can’t be redeemed for booze or cigarettes), pay fees straight to schools, money straight to landlords, money straight to phone companies for pre-approved services. Issue specific cheques when kids require clothes or school equipment.
Offer the same to anyone out of work, which means that people who have been working can still get the odd luxury from their savings.
Don’t work? Then you get what you’re given. The dole needs to be there to allow people to live, but needs to be undesirable enough that no one wants to stay there.
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