tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post8012360696855253731..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: The Glenn InquiryLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-50442631530166628282014-06-17T08:21:21.706+12:002014-06-17T08:21:21.706+12:00As I've said in various places, the Glenn repo...As I've said in various places, the Glenn report was a complete waste of time. <br /><br />Nowhere was there a mention of one of the biggest factors in poverty and child abuse - the perverse incentives that the welfare system gives. It encourages beneficiaries to have children that they can't afford to support. <br /><br />As long as that *fact* is continually dodged then nothing will change. Lindsay (or I) could have saved millions and come up with *real* solutions that had a chance of working. <br /><br />Step 1 - remove all incentives from the welfare system for beneficiaries to have more children. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-5407077120300426612014-06-17T08:14:05.189+12:002014-06-17T08:14:05.189+12:00"Oh and the colonist-blaming conveniently pop..."Oh and the colonist-blaming conveniently pops up."<br /><br />Yep and bollocks it is too. A read of the Musket Wars and Bible and the Treaty records quite clearly the absolute brutality of Maori to other tribes (and even within their own) that horrified early explorers and missionaries. <br /><br />While I can't prove it I feel the child abuse that we see in the headlines (the extreme end) does not appear to be a white middle class worker problem. I'd like to be wrong about that.<br /><br />3:16Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com