Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Standard plays down dependency

According to The Standard the Welfare Working Group's Long-term Benefit Dependency; The Issues paper is about creating an "air of crisis" where there is none and as usual "Tory welfare bashing". Their latest post is a selection of quotes. So I thought I would pull out some of my own extracts and tables.

At the end of April 2010, almost 13 percent of the working age population was receiving a benefit. Of the people who were on a benefit at the end of June 2009, more than 170,000 had been on a benefit for most of the past ten years.




This graph should ideally show columns that are decreasing in height from left to right.

The numbers of people that are entering the benefit system at a young age each year (and remaining there) is significant. Each year around 5,700 people enter the benefit system at 16-17 years of age, and a further 4,600 people enter the benefit system on their 18th birthday.




How many of the 4,600 entering the system on their 18th birthday are graduating from their caregiver's benefit?

... among young Māori women in their twenties, around 40% were receiving a benefit.


Here's why;



This is a double whammy. First, according to census data, NZ has the second highest percentage of children living in sole parent households in the developed world and second, nearly half of the parents don't work.

No. There is definitely nothing here that should cause alarm.

(Here is a comment that has just be posted over there; The money paid out on benefits doesn’t just disappear, it’s spent on rent, food, power, phone… All of that money goes straight back into the economy, it’s really a subsidy for the whole of NZ in some kind of trickle down and around process.

Now that's neat. You and I are being subsidised by beneficiaries!)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

100,000 bludging scum on benefits since before Queen Hellen took power.

This is about 4% of the electorate.

Greater than margin of communist victory in the 1999, 2002, 2005 general elections.

The people don't want benefits and don't want communist government. The people didn't vote for that for at least the last 20 years

But MMP, the Maorimander, and the total rort that is bludger voting made all the difference/

Anonymous said...

"All of that money goes straight back into the economy, it’s really a subsidy for the whole of NZ in some kind of trickle down and around process."

That's just a variant on the broken window fallacy, which is now so well and truly debunked, that it's a miracle that some still try and spin arguments around it. (Although even the Judith Collins was caught doing so recently).

Bez

Manolo said...

The comrades at the Sub-Standard are founding members of the Flat Earth society and CANNOT be taken seriously.

A good source for a laugh, yes. A serious blog, no. The sub-Standard is a pinko joke.

Anonymous said...

The comrades at the Sub-Standard are founding members of the Flat Earth society and CANNOT be taken seriously.


You underestimate them. They can and must be taken separately. They supported the Tuhoe terrorists. They supported the Anti-National terrorists. Their policies lead to economic destruction and ruination.

They must be taken seriously and drummed out of the country - probably at the business end of a police shotgun.