tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post5148892511233746169..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Dyson deserves diddly squatLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-81953748062009113492021-06-09T11:29:25.029+12:002021-06-09T11:29:25.029+12:00The race to the bottom, awarding mediocrity while ...The race to the bottom, awarding mediocrity while pursuing egalitarianism. <br />The Slippery Slopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02607796709933068301noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-66314948579044416292021-06-07T15:36:02.600+12:002021-06-07T15:36:02.600+12:00It's a whole different culture between the Lab...It's a whole different culture between the Labour 1960 and the Labour of 2007. One sees work as a solution, the other sees leisure as the solution.<br /><br />Some of the Hansard at the introduction of the Act repealed by Dyson..<br /><br />“One of the tragedies in our community is the plight of that group of people who through<br />infirmity, physical or mental, are unable to take their part in normal employment and who, because of their disabilities, are inclined to regard themselves as useless human beings with no further purpose in life.” – Gotz, ibid<br /><br />“There is no doubt that the main desire of a person who is physically handicapped or intellectually handicapped is to take his place in the community in some way. It can be done, even although the field may be limited.” – King, ibid<br /><br />“They will be able to go along and ask the manager for a job. He may argue, “I don’t know that you would be able to manage because of your disability,” and they will be in a position<br />to say, “Give me an opportunity to prove myself.” They will be paid according to their worth.” – Sim, ibid<br /><br />Ref. http://ahnz.anarkiwi.co.nz/1960-disabled-persons-employment-promotion-act/Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-65014366800007551622021-06-07T12:45:53.244+12:002021-06-07T12:45:53.244+12:00"Official Charities" .Many years ago and..."Official Charities" .Many years ago and on crutches I mistakenly thought a Drivers Mobility card would make my life easier. <br /><br />I arrived at the CCS office in Palmerston North just as they were shutting the front door at midday.<br /><br />I knocked and said I wanted to apply for my free pass. The nice lady gave me the once over and told me to come back after lunch, locked the door and pulled the curtain on my dream of special privileges. <br /><br />Been doing it my own way ever since.<br /><br />Mark Wahlberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17959889940311304180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-38340512605196991592021-06-07T10:52:13.740+12:002021-06-07T10:52:13.740+12:00Juana, I hope your brother has since found employm...Juana, I hope your brother has since found employment elsewhere. The whole exercise was utterly baffling. I was an ACT candidate (2008) and must have been standing in for Muriel Newman at a disability advocacy election meeting where Dyson was on the panel. I challenged the minister about the legislation and she adamantly stated there would be no revisiting the issue. Oddly the audience seemed unresponsive but I was approached by two or three afterwards who thanked and agreed with me. But the problem is so many so-called 'charities' recieve govt-funding, so go along with the 'programme'. The IHC did. I stopped collecting for them or donating.Lindsay Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-2801414417655706372021-06-07T10:29:16.304+12:002021-06-07T10:29:16.304+12:00A Price Floor is a sort of Price Control that abol...A Price Floor is a sort of Price Control that abolishes an entire market sector of people who are willing to buy and sell with each other. Why?<br /><br />The moral reason is that the person making the rule disapproves of the choices made by those people. Having the power to abolish it, they command that the workers may not work and the buyers may not buy. The deal they accept with each other is not acceptable to the third party and they shut it down for 'the good of all'.<br /><br />I used to think this was economic ignorance on the part of people like Dyson and Labour 5.0 but now I've become cynical. Now I think they deliberately eliminated trades like these, jobs likes these, markets like these, on behalf of competitors. When little, competitive, firms are busted that business (and tax revenue) goes to someone else. Cui bono?<br /><br />What did Ruth Dyson do for disabled people anyway? All Wiki has to say is that she made NZ Sign Language 'Official'. But that's awful. The worst thing you can do for a culture is to take away the responsibility for its own perpetuation/mana/autonomy/funding and give it to government bureaucrats. Now, like Maori, it's a language on welfare. <br /><br />Rickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06315796390662297759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-27841806686437121482021-06-07T10:08:15.185+12:002021-06-07T10:08:15.185+12:00I well remember what happened as my brother lost h...I well remember what happened as my brother lost his job sanding wooden toys in a sheltered workshop and making paper in another. Since that time before every election, we always remind him that it was the Labour party that took away his job.<br /><br />I was so angry. I had supported the local IHC by using their team of around 7 to mow my lawns. The men took such pride in their work supported by two supervisors. The lawn mowing operation was shut down because of Helen Clark's government. We told them what would happen but they didn't care. It was a virtue-signalling law that looked good to the ignorant but in reality, hurt the most vulnerable people in our society.Juanahttps://thebfd.co.nz/noreply@blogger.com