The latest Brain Fart

[mashman]

Young beneficiaries offered incentives

"Young beneficiaries will be offered a monetary incentive to train under changes announced by the Government today.

Many of the changes was announced during the election campaign.

A $10 a week incentive will be paid to young people who continue in training, complete a budgeting course and for teen parents who do a parenting course.

Young people will also have their rent and power paid for them with an allowance and payment card for living expenses.

Widows and women over 50 and living alone will be expected to be available for work along with those on the DPB with children over five."

Awesomeness, here comes the allowance card.

[GingerMidget]

I've got an idea.

DPB? palm the kids off to the grandparents and get a part time job. Even if its shovelling shit.

Been made redundant and can't find work you want? get off your pedestal and find something. doesn't matter if it doesn't pay well enough, its something.

Sickness benefit? if its depression or something like that, make an effort to get better, and find a part time job. Yes I realise its not that easy, speaking from experience of depression, but sitting on your arse all day will make it worse than actually getting out and doing something with yourself. Can't work at all? go volunteer at the spca. Walk some puppies. Its been proven animals are good for stress, and exercise gives you endorphins. endorphins stop me throwing things at people.

They also hype me up and make me talk too much

[mashman]

I've got an idea.

DPB? palm the kids off to the grandparents and get a part time job. Even if its shovelling shit.

Been made redundant and can't find work you want? get off your pedestal and find something. doesn't matter if it doesn't pay well enough, its something.

Sickness benefit? if its depression or something like that, make an effort to get better, and find a part time job. Yes I realise its not that easy, speaking from experience of depression, but sitting on your arse all day will make it worse than actually getting out and doing something with yourself. Can't work at all? go volunteer at the spca. Walk some puppies. Its been proven animals are good for stress, and exercise gives you endorphins. endorphins stop me throwing things at people.

They also hype me up and make me talk too much

Do the grandparents get paid? The kids will listen to the grandparents right?

Is it going to cost more travelling too and from work than you spend in bills that would justify landing your kids on someone that probably really really doesn't want them?

[GingerMidget]

This is why I don't want kids. I don't care enough. I'm sorry.

[mashman]

This is why I don't want kids. I don't care enough. I'm sorry.

... you're not alone.

[mashman]

She has some fair points imho... I can see crime stats going up too... I'm sure there was a thread that touched on that somewhere around here.

Government welfare reforms go ahead... "Those with children over 14 have to be available for full-time work."... old enough to look after themselves, old enough to vote... there's a thread about that too

"Prime Minister John Key said he made no apologies for the changes because the current welfare system was unsustainable.

Mr Key says about 13 per cent of the working age population, 350,000 people supporting 225,000 children, are on some sort of benefit.

"It's costing $20 million a day, $8 billion a year, and I think most New Zealanders would say that's too much," he said."

bwaaaaa ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaa. I'm sure most New Zealanders would

[mashman]

Non-govt providers' key role in reforms "The government will provide funding to work alongside some 14,000 at-risk youth, 3,000 of whom are on a benefit.

A further 11,000 are not in employment or education and are not claiming government support."

bwaaaaa aha ha ha ahaaaaaaaaa... WTF, poking their noses into 11,000 lives where it clearly isn't wanted or needed.

""We're blatantly targeting that 14,000," Ms Bennett said.

"That's how you stop them still being NEET (not in employment, education or trading) at 21, 22."

You vill do vot vee tell you or you vill stay NEET.

[Madness]

$10 a week doesn't even buy half a tinnie these days, does it? Meh.

[Brian d marge]

8 billion,,,,meeeehhh thats a drop in the ocean compared to how much these "Oldies " cost us , sitting around all day , drinking tea using the buses for free

Get a haircut gran , and get a real job

Stephen

[TrentNz]

This is why I don't want kids. I don't care enough. I'm sorry.

Lol



Nothing wrong with kids, its just the way you bring them up that matters

[GingerMidget]

Lol



Nothing wrong with kids, its just the way you bring them up that matters

Please don't breed.

[pete376403]

Do the grandparents get paid?

They can be paid - eg my wife is a registered home care provider with Porse, so she is paid 20 hours a week to look after our grandkids (twins) while our daughter is at work. Doesn't pay much, though, and Kath has the kids for a lot more than the official 20 hours.

[TrentNz]

Please don't breed.

Sooo, how bout it

[mashman]

They can be paid - eg my wife is a registered home care provider with Porse, so she is paid 20 hours a week to look after our grandkids (twins) while our daughter is at work. Doesn't pay much, though, and Kath has the kids for a lot more than the official 20 hours.

Nice. There's a few around here that do Porse, some like it, some don't . Wonder if ya could get paid to look after yer own kids?

[flyingcrocodile46]

355,000 adults (on benifit) plus their 225,000 children (600,000 of them)

That's a shit load of a burden on our taxes.

I can't afford this burden that I had no part in creating.

I welcome reductions in this burden.