Another graphic shows that 51% of the children in poverty live in single parent families.
Here's a graph showing the number of single parents families over a similar period.
Again, the subsidisation of single parent families has been a major contributor to the growth in the numbers of children living in poverty.
And the best answer the Children's Commissioner can come up with is more subsidisation.
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"And the best answer the Children's Commissioner can come up with is more subsidisation. "
Crazy, isn't it.
"Gee.... what we've been doing for the last 40 years - shoveling money at those on low incomes - hasn't worked, so let's do **LOTS MORE OF IT!**"
How does the quote go? Something like "stupidity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result."
Scrap the Children' Commission. They have NO answers.
The ONLY answer is to massively take the axe to welfare and get people to be more *responsible* for their own lives.
That's right, thor, the ONLY (ONLY I say) way to ensure poor parents learn not to have children is to punish their children by taking away what safety net there is. And people think libertarians are weird. Why is that?
Judge Holden,
The challenge is how to withdraw the lifestyle subsidy that is welfare (for most beneficiary parents) without hurting their children.
The current government is making some inroads by ensuring rent and essentials are met for very young parents, and cash is minimal.
It's less than I want, but gradualism is the only method acceptable to most of the voting public.
It's less than I want, but gradualism is the only method acceptable to most of the voting public.
Rubbish. Do you really think if after the GFC and Christchurch, Bill English had come out and told the truth: "We're borrowing billion dollars a week and spending it all on welfare. We can't afford to do that any more" that there would have been riots in the streets, the country would have been ungovernable, and two years later Labour would have been back in?
Most Kiwis know welfare is completely unsustainable and needs to be eliminated. Just as most Kiwis would bring back the death penalty, arm the police, and know they need guns at home to keep their families safe.
What we have a politicians greatly afraid of the left, who are capable of generated lots of coverage in the "mainstream media" and shutting down these common sense policies that almost all Kiwis favour.
With the ascendence of Whaleoil as NZ's #1 media outlet - with a greater reach than the Herald and Radio NZ combined - there is real hope the socialist-communist grasp on NZ might end, and NZ return to freedom and capitalism!
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