And how about the partner, not on the DPB, who also failed with contraception, lose the right to vote as well?

Or are all sins forgiven as long as you’re a tax payer?

Keep it in church mate…. I’m an athiest.

One reason you’re a godlicker is because of all the awesome employment opportunities that come along with it?

Oh dear… that’s so bizarre I’m pausing to even think how to go about explaining why that’s wrong….

You don’t look at religion and say…’hey, I’ll do that because I’ll find it easier to get a job’. Far out man!!

If I was interviewing, being an athiest, the **last** fucking thing I’d want would be morons with critical thinking limited to ‘god does everything’. Shit… I wouldn’t give a religious freak a job…. weirdos!!

DPF – “fail” again due to knowingly pushing it as well:

This almost certainly will end once the welfare reforms are fully implemented

Reeeeaaalllllyyyyyyy?

That is outrageous.

Is it, or is it just a convienient way to get the foaming mouths going?

I am getting sick of this. This man who is supposed to have been on the UB for so many years, surely must either be a particularly unqualified, unskilled, mentally or physically disabled person, and/or he lives in a very remote, rural place, where there simply are no jobs for any person like him.

Surely, this person is a total extreme and bizarre case, and I would guess, he should probably rather be on a sickness or invalid’s benefit, because to my knowledge and experience, WINZ staff do put the pressure on unemployed quite relentlessly, and that has been so for many years, yes also before National won the 2008 election and started leading the government.

The vast bulk of unemployed move on and off that benefit rather fast, some may stay on it for justified reasons a bit longer than 6 months or a year, and a minority for a number of years.

Even sickness beneficiaries do in vast majority not stay on those benefits for all that long.

Why is the media always just focusing on abuse, fraud, sensationalistic cases, rather than report on the true state of affairs that beneficiaries live under? This selective reporting raises serious questions about media bias. Maybe the new breed of graduate journos have never experienced life on the dole or in real dire straits, so they do not relate to the “underclass”?

Perhaps publish some more balanced OIA figures on what goes on next time. Also perhaps have a look how supposedly “independent” WINZ’s “designated doctors” are when making fit for work assessments these days. The regime is harsh and becoming more draconian, even while there are insufficient jobs for those that are supposed to look for them.

NZ Herald – “fail” again due to poor journalism.

Actually, in the language of the tangata whenua underclass, the word is “slag”.

As in, “hey bro, is dat your slag?” (translated as, “Excuse me, is that your wife/girlfriend/lover?”)

Half of $21.4m 2012 Gold Card travel fund spent where only a quarter of retirees live.

NZ First leader Winston Peters said the review for Budget 2013 was ominous given the National Government had already overseen changes in 2010 that had eroded the scheme. Photo / Mark Mitchell
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NZ First leader Winston Peters said the review for Budget 2013 was ominous given the National Government had already overseen changes in 2010 that had eroded the scheme. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Half of the $21.4 million spent on SuperGold Card public transport last year was in Auckland, although it is home to only one quarter of the country’s senior citizens.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10862008

yes I have two wives both sexy and young and fuck hard,
I hardly know what to do they get so angry,
I tired most of the time but do not sleep,
you want new wife, tell me. I pay shifting costs.
Wife 2 costs approx $400 per week,
you can see how social welfare is failing us

Q: What does the height of the tallest person in NZ tell us about the general population.
A: Nothing.

What struck me about this story was actually how *little* he has lived on. I’m not a big fan of welfare as a solution to unemployment, but I’m more annoyed at the journalist than the man.

If they want shock and awe then they could have compared this hopeless guy’s welfare bill to the cost of keeping someone in prison, or to David Bain’s legal aid bill, or to RMA costs for a local council footbridge…

Or they could have compared him to the top-10 income earners in NZ.

average $200/week? That’s a lot less than a lot of professionals would charge for an hour’s work.

If you cut my benefit I might have to resort to being exploited by employers who know they’ve got you by the balls, or I could rob your fucking house and likely get away with it seeing as most burglaries go unsolved.

But yeah… thanks taxpayers. I do appreciate not starving to death or having to beg for food or being homeless. Fantastic!!

I’ve just started to learn to bake biscuits and I give most of them away, seeing as only because I was unemployed did I have the time to go from 97kg to now 79-80kg and don’t want to ‘biscuit’ my arse back up there…. and I always tell them that they’re working and I’m not so take some biscuits as a small thank you. I’ve still got some cash saved up so think of it as spending my way towards having to find work faster if that helps you.

I deal with some very ignorant muppet case workers at WINZ… so it’s not quite all beer and skittles… and spent three hours one day arguing with some dribbling twats about the word ‘suitability’. They *did* try to bully me into taking shitarse jobs…. so there you go. That’s a real life story mate…. how’s that? And I didn’t like the dreadful kiwi accent of this woman that grated like nothing else….she’s from the ‘oiy live in chroiystchurch’ class… and has a stupid stupid white rubbish name…. and so there’s no way in hell I was taking any shit from that bitch…

Dear oh dear…. I don’t miss people *that much*. If I did…. I would do more to spend time with them… but I don’t. I can take them or leave them. I’m not dying of lack of human interaction. Most people are miserable fucking pricks and probably so am I and if I am one in a space is enough surely? Far out…

And I read there’s 175 000 people out of work at any one time. When there’s full employment… know what I’m saying? At the moment… someone’s got to be out of work anyway. Yes I realise that line of thinking is abhorrent. But you’ve got to admit… there’s some kind of twisted logic to it.

When you do enough dumbarse braindead moron life-sucking jobs working with ignorant unattractive cretinous fucktards with bad hours, bad bosses, being treated like shit, low wages and shitty work that you hate every second of… well… I’m not ready yet to rejoin my fellow lowlives doing pointless menial humiliating bullshit. But what do I know?

I’m a dropkick because I don’t sleep normally. It’s quite common and I come across plenty of others with similar habits. I used to go to work on 0-4 hours sleep all the time. Every day for a week sometimes. You make mistakes, you can’t think, you get moody…. it’s pure hell waiting to go home…. it feels horrible.

I had to have an early meeting about this idiot I refused to work with… was it 6:45am or 5:45am? Can’t remember. Early. I only got two hours sleep after arguing on the phone the night before and took no food because I thought I wouldn’t be working that day.. I drove with the Tongan on a run that takes 14 hours per day with minimal breaks. I had a very very bad nasty headache by the end of the day and I was crying with about 6kms to go on the way home. I tracked down the e mail address for their big boss to ‘resign’ and I was out of there two days later. Fuckwits. One boss there tried to blackmail me into working with the white idiot. I said I’m not working with him… do whatever you have to. For him it was a bluff to try and get his way. He sort of talked to himself about what the contract was worth to them. Of course, the driver is worth nothing in that regard. I should’ve counter-offered that I’d work with the white loser for $25/ hour or nothing. That’s not the point though…. you don’t want to work with total cunts. I don’t anyway. I don’t buy the whole ‘you have to get along with people, that’s life’ argument either. That works to a point… not spending the day with a retard.

I don’t miss any of that shit let me tell you.

I voted National…. against the stereotypical beneficiary voting pattern…..

Is this worth talking about every time it comes up in the news which is every six months or so?

One thing I’ve thought of… the article is only concerned with continuous years unemployed. There’s also those who are on/off benefits for years and the total time spent unemployed racks up.

Another thing is there’s also sickness beneficiaries who aren’t really terribly sick as it were… they’ve just cynically found a way to receive a sickness benefit and be left alone for job-seeking.

And the DPB… for some brainless morons it’s a life choice and my thinking is similar to Longknives there. A lot of them are scroungy deadhead unemployable muppets that decide to have feral fatherless dumb-bum animal children.

The decline in home ownership will have a future cost.

Sure, no argument with that of and in itself. But mitigating the consequences of one inter generational theft by perpetrating another isn’t going to solve the problem. Just another round of budget homes which will be shabby as all hell like many today from the last time Labour needed to build houses to be popular enough to get elected.

National Super costs far, far more than all the other benefits combined!

Perhaps but… The great Labour party dream was predicated nobody shall have too much and nobody shall have too little (IE Redistribution, socialism, unions, protest and resistance) –

National super has for decades been severe inter-generational theft. Current taxes supporting current retired people. How many decades have we known about the aging baby boomers creating a retirement income funding dilemma? In insurance sales circles 3 ? Dept of stats …. 4 probably ?

The people who have paid their taxes being promised by a government they would be looked after in retirement ( when it was really only to support their own ‘old people’) are now expect that delivered. National super is a political problem… like WFF….

What’s the next generation’s white elephant? – All their savings poured into a worthless leaky state home built on three fifth’s of five eights of a shoe string?

But the big question is when do people stop voting for other peoples money … the answer to that is probably when political parties stop selling it for votes.

Of course most are able to work & should be held to account. The gnashing of teeth of many of the usual KB regulars does seem uncharitable when you consider the vast majority of bene’s end up back in the workforce in some capacity in pretty reasonable time. Gotta keep stroking those middle class social climbers though….a bit of bene bashing is just the ticket for Bunter Bennett, as usual, the hopeless fat turd.

And the left are supposed to be the ones who play the class warfare card?!

DPF: This almost certainly will end once the welfare reforms are fully implemented.

I’m significantly ◠‿◠ younger than you, and even I’m not that naive.

Agreed!
FFS – Two and a half *decades* that useless bloody WINZ has had to grab this lazy prick by his BALLS and march him into a job thinning forests or something.

WINZ are as useless as the beneficiaries that they profess to “help”.

**How bloody hard** is it for WINZ to query their database and find all beneficiaries who’ve been receiving a benefit for more than (say) five years, then march the bastards onto orchards and farms?

Piss-EASY, I’d say. Bennett needs to light a bloody FIRE under the arses of her useless staff who don’t do this *already*. Useless pricks.

Jeez, I moved across the world for a better job so whats wrong with moving to a city?