tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post2020223632286764857..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Treasury warns MSD about unsustainable spendingLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-87328046840231662362015-07-06T00:34:14.099+12:002015-07-06T00:34:14.099+12:00Meanwhile, NZ"s minimum wage is one of the hi...Meanwhile, NZ"s minimum wage is one of the highest in the world:<br /><br />http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03364/newPic_878_PNG_3364780b.jpg<br /><br />Rather than increasing minimum wages and benefits we need to be cutting both - hard and fast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-69463912066090957092015-07-05T18:54:04.575+12:002015-07-05T18:54:04.575+12:00The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy...The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty"<br />***Source***<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategyJamienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-72380792115301098962015-07-05T13:28:42.103+12:002015-07-05T13:28:42.103+12:00less patience with government’s strategies for add...<i> less patience with government’s strategies for addressing it</i><br /><br />Hell Yeah. Every nett taxpayer I talk to is completely sick of "government’s strategies for addressing" so-called "poverty.<br /><br />We need to STOP all this mess now. This is isn't "spending", sure isn't "investing", it's just flushing money down the crapper. <br /><br /><br />Greece won't have pensions or a dole or any "government spending" tomorrow. Neither should NZ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com