A new approach to welfare
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 am by David FarrarThe Frisian villages of Dongeradeel and Dantumadiel have come up with a novel way of cutting spending on welfare payments – encouraging jobless women to find a rich man, the Leeuwarder Courant reports on Tuesday.
The local social service departments are paying for the women to have a make-over in the hope they can hook up with a rich husband to support them, the paper says. If 70 women find a new husband, the council can save €400,000 on welfare payments.
The councils are putting €1,400 into each woman to have her hair done and get help with her image. They will also get their wardrobe updated and tips on social skills and presentation.
I await the announcement of a pilot here, by Paula Bennett!
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:15 am
Did you say that Bennets new approach for her would be???
Vote:That will be fun to watch. Lead by example is always the best course.
Rich MP’s MMMM A couple of wealthy ones there!!!
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:18 am
The subtleties of the English language are revealed in translation.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 10:23 am
That’s right, because women are just reproductive assets who can be bought and sold. Certainly, it can never be the other way around. I hope these women know their place. {/sarcasm}
[DPF: I hope no one thinks I was seriously endorsing the concept]
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 10:31 am
A quick trip to the NZDating messageboards will confirm that such ethos’ are already well entrenched in this country.
It will also scare the bejeesus out of you.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 10:38 am
You can’t instill breeding into the inbred.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 10:45 am
I thought the NZ public had already come out against state sanctioned gold digging?
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 10:53 am
I believe Bennett has published a list of male names and tax details so that woman can be well informed….
Come on Dim-Post, you can pick this idea up and run with it….
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:00 am
Why not set up a State online dating agency for wimmin on welfare.
Why discriminate Why not set one up for men No doubt PhilU could take advantage and find a rich bitch eh Phil
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:04 am
So have I got this right, the state is going to pay woman to encourage them to seek out wealthy partners…. Next week a bonus will be paid to people who breath….
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:05 am
I thought the reason Helen legalized prostitution was to reduce the number of women on the DPB.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:17 am
Just so Johnboy.
But she never paid for a make-over. Have you seen some of the blowsy looking strumpets? Its a wonder anyone wants to shag them, let alone pay for it – must be real hard up.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:20 am
America runs those schemes from time to time, most notably of late called Rock of Love. I can barely stand the advertisements for the show, so never tried watching it. That Dutch Council has ten women signed up for their plan so far. I’m sure a Gay Rights group will soon start calling the scheme discriminatory.
Wasn’t it the Dutch who recently considered sending welfare recipients into prostitution as a valid career path? They’re just so wonderfully progressive. Are any of them sane?
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:22 am
an adonis yrslf there..are ya ..?..don-te-kiwi..?
gotta pic….?
(without you holding yr stomach in…?..eh..?..)
phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:24 am
I await the announcement of a pilot here, by Paula Bennett!
So do I. Seriously.
I mean if government pays for washing machines and tires and absolutely everything else…
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:25 am
Just as well you’re a pretty little Magpie phool you’ll be able to turn an honest buck as a rent boy when Paula’s troops tell you to get a job…..eh?
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:27 am
“Are any of them sane?”
Geert Wilders is.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:30 am
“..America runs those schemes from time to time, most notably of late called Rock of Love. I can barely stand the advertisements for the show, so never tried watching it…”
rock of love…almost sets a new benchmark in deeply ‘watchable’ crap/reality telly-shows..
the contestants are gargoyles…and you get to see them self-immolate…
brilliant television….!
..not least because of the male lead…
..a deeply insecure rock bad-boy/little boy…
..acting out the archetype hetero-male fantasies…
..’tis multi-layered…
and if you watch any of those surf-save/airline/whatever ‘reality-shows…?
..they are the real crap of this genre…’cos they are so terminally boring…
..rock of love….is the real deal..
(nb..rock of love:charm school…is utter crap…and to be avoided…)
…phil(whoar.co.nz
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:30 am
“I mean if government pays for washing machines and tires and absolutely everything else…”
Vote:Slight correction Ben, the government doesn’t pay, the taxpayers pay.
June 23rd, 2010 at 11:32 am
For the first time in your life, Philu, you got it right.
(Thinks, Phil can’t have had his first joint yet)
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:41 am
There ya go Phool, here’s your chance. Bit of makeup and a wig and you might scrub up allright and get yourself a rich husband. Just like prison !
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 1:41 pm
“Just like prison !”
Thanks PIA, I just hit my head laughing my ass off!
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 2:01 pm
We already have this. It’s called Westfield two-double-seven, in Newmarket.
Except that job-free skanks normally get their extreme gold-digging makeovers funded by mummy (usually also a job-free gold-digging skank), rather than nanny state.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 5:32 pm
its no more a new means of welfare than Margret Wilsons Property Relationships Act
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 7:01 pm
Philu you wouldn’t be treated as a total cunt IF YOU WOULD JUST WRITE PROPERLY!!!
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Great idea..
WINZ should have their own World Dating service…
Vote:young and old single mothers……………………….avilable for relationships with rich pricks.
young and old unemployed woman…………………avilable for relationships with rich pricks.
young and old woman on sickness benefits……….avilable for relationships with rich pricks.
June 23rd, 2010 at 10:52 pm
Not so sure about that. Abandoning his disgracefully parasitic lifestyle might be more effective IMO.
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:03 pm
Speaking of a new approach to welfare I see everyone’s favourite beneficiary has been trying to do some street redecoration: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3842460/Mall-protesters-damage-act-misfires
Vote:June 23rd, 2010 at 11:12 pm
I was just hoping the young police woman would do some redecorating of her own… and just taser him in the balls.
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