"eating out Helen" did I hear you say? Oh no, typo, sorry.Originally Posted by Fairlie
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"eating out Helen" did I hear you say? Oh no, typo, sorry.
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this morning,had the father on programme explaining why ambulance not called,phone disconnected,had to use elderly neighbours phone,the contractor sounds like he was given the don't accept sob story from customer,as he was taken to see the women in her dining room,they were to pay bill on the thursday.best part was when through interpretor who is to blame here,he replied power company.excuse me the power co wasn't overdue with payment.end of story there.mind you they had no idea they could use govt agencies,samoan pride,samoan stubborness was problem,he has no probs explaining the predicament on nationwide tv,so pride doesn't appear to be issue.sad but true plight on society,the way the govt pretended to care,bullshit extreme.
Hello officer put it on my tab
Don't steal the government hates competition.
Psyclepath
Interpretor? Can someone get him to come back? I understand the individual words, but together they don't seem to mean anything....
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
The Loose Goose
Oh, so deserving of bling! I wonder if who we can blame for this?
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Loud and Uncouth
The person who chose to ignore the English teacher at his school I'd say....spelling not too bad - but oh my, the punctuation, the lack of caps., the grammar......Oh, so deserving of bling! I wonder if who we can blame for this?
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Gahhh! Thud.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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Quite right, it takes only a few seconds of extra effort to at least make a post understood with ease and this was such an important topic.
Come warm yourself by the fire
Then explain the 2 cars in the drive and the 3 cellphones in the household.
Power co. ONLY cut off power when the bill is 90 days overdue......and they tell you at least 4 times that they are going to do so.
The only sad part here is the fact that it made the news
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Loud and Uncouth
Hey, quit crowding the issue with so many facts - it's ruining the whole media pumped story...i
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The Loose Goose
This has just been posted on a journalism forum I belong to and I think it pretty much says it all:
"Now the police have decided not to press charges against anyone concerning the Muliaga power case, more of the truth has come out. And weren't we all taken for a ride! Not just Helen Clark, but to some extent, me as well.
Tucked away in the inside pages of the Weekend Herald, was this little story, far away from the screaming front-page headlines of the earlier narrative. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/...ectid=10446059 So the family had had their power cut off several times before without any fatal consequences. So obviously that oxygen machine wasn't as vital as we were originally led to believe. And the son did nothing to help, like call an ambulance for hours, when he was able to. I recall a blog reported that the Muliagas were actually claiming $277 a week in government benefits, so it seems Working for Families was not too complicated, as I had wondered.
Thus, the Muliagas were not ignorant peasants with poor English, but rather a reasonably educated family who could cope with the rigours of our welfare system, queries from WINZ and the IRD. In receipt of all this taxpayer upport, I would say they were somewhat negligent in not paying their bills. I would also say that since they were educated enough to claim so much welfare, they were also educated enough to converse to the police in English too. After all, they had been in New Zealand six years, long enough to learn English, unless the government's edcuation system had failed them too.
Now the dust is settling for the Coroner's Inquest, I feel that the media needs to look at how it covered the story. Was it too easy to take the Sheehan-fed line of evil corporate v poor and innocent family? Was the media too slow in noting the government's role in this, particulalrly when Helen Clark became involved. It did eventually, noting that Mercury is an SOE where the government appoints the board and sets the financial targets. You might not have known Mercury was state-owned judging by some tv coverage. Was the media being too PC and culturally sensitive in its coverage, not wishing to pry much into the Muliaga's role in this. Or the support they gave their church or what they might have got in return. Michael Laws last week commented as much in the SST.
And bearing all this in mind, don't we now need to examine how the PM dealt with this drama now the truth is known. Now, we see a case of a woman whose overeating led her to die. And at such a fortuitous time that a state-funded, thus taxpayer-owned power company felt so guilt-ridden they stumped up $10,000.
As those sweet old dears sitting for a bus say in the 4 Square advert :"How very convenient.""
Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!
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The constant bleating about the 'facts' in this case is such a crock....there was only one important fact - the woman was going to die because she damaged her heart by being too fat. But will any newspaper actually publish that as being the pertinent fact? Doubt it. Not PC eh...
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Wherever I may roam
Your dead friggan right there Beemer.I think this whole story stunk from the beginning and I cant beleive how much the media pumped this story up.
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Paved roads are just another example of wasted tax payer dollars.
Wherever you go, there you are
Dumb arguement, working people have cars and cellphones.
So you would, if you lost all or part of your income due illness, sell your car or other family members cars and cellphones to pay the power bill? Or are you trying to imply that these people were bludgers that had cars and cellphones in lieu of paying their power bill?
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Tornado Alley
Kinda funny how so many of us on here saw right through it all, yet the PM couldn't??? Her Political football just got kicked to touch, finally... perhaps???? (I live in hope...)
The Loose Goose
I'm not into politics and unfortunately don't think much changes no matter who is in power, but I bloody hope this has harmed Helen Clark in the eyes of decent NZers who do pay their bills. I got paid about $300 on Saturday for some work I did last June - yes, 12 months ago! Because I accept payment on publication, there was nothing I could do about the fact they held the story over for 12 months. However all the bills I had to pay in the past 12 months got paid, it's not like I used that as an excuse to avoid paying!
Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!
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