She's a bit of a heifer - But I think I love Paula Bennett

[Quasievil]

How old are you, Quasi? Take it from me, good fortune does not last forever. What happens if you take a business risk and it doesn't work, and you get cleaned out? What happens if you get cheated by a business partner? Or any of the other circumstances that cause people to fall on hard times? Or get old? Or sick?

45 and I havent been on the welfare yet, I have always found a job when needed and I will do anything if needed, in the last 10 years I have been in corporate management roles, I have been a Yardman for Holcim and a line haul truck driver, now Im a BDM for Mobil.
If I cant get a job, I will exhaust everything first.......years n years ago, when I left the army, I picked blueberries got sick of that and made a killing going door to door cleaning ovens for $20.

If I had to go on the dole I can guarantee it would be a leg up for a short term until I found something.

[Tank]

45 and I havent been on the welfare yet, I have always found a job when needed and I will do anything if needed, in the last 10 years I have been in corporate management roles, I have been a Yardman for Holcim and a line haul truck driver, now Im a BDM for Mobil.
If I cant get a job, I will exhaust everything first.......years n years ago, when I left the army, I picked blueberries got sick of that and made a killing going door to door cleaning ovens for $20.

If I had to go on the dole I can guarantee it would be a leg up for a short term until I found something.

Thats the attitude Quasi - if only more were like that.

[frogfeaturesFZR]

Agree completely Mr Smith. However the criteria for Invalids has become rather more 'robust' of late. And a good thing too. No policy can be 100% right for all people, and all circumstances, best we can hope for to get as close to that ideal as we can. I think these moves are a step in the right direction.

[Smifffy]

Agree completely Mr Smith. However the criteria for Invalids has become rather more 'robust' of late. And a good thing too. No policy can be 100% right for all people, and all circumstances, best we can hope for to get as close to that ideal as we can. I think these moves are a step in the right direction.

Can only have happened within the last 6 months.

[mashman]

I can only imagine that right wing female politicians look better with their kit off than left wing female poloticians. As a matter of course.

They called her the Iron Lady.

[frogfeaturesFZR]

Certainly has, and to be honest I'm not sure if all offices maintain the same standards. There is a policy which is supposed to be followed, but I think it's interpreted a little elastically some places ....Every Invalids should be signed off by the MSD Regional Health team, composed of health professionals, unless it's Downs Syndrome etc....However ???

[Tank]

They called her the Iron Lady.

Id tap it - even now.

[pete376403]

To me, these are the real bastards... those that have $$$ to burn and still structure their affairs so that they get more from the govt... our more in fact... greedy greedy greedy fuckers... NO social conscience... granted some of the great unwashed are playing the system... but I would have a guess that they're trying to get more $$$ for food, booze etc... the simple, cheap pleasures in life... these wealthy cunts just want MORE money...

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-sto...r-tax-english/

Bill English lost what little credibility he had when he was exposed as a ripoff merchant, little better than the ones he talks out in this article
- claiming housing allowances for the Wellington house he (alright his "family trust") owned, then trying to get additional cleaning allowances. So he paid it back - but only because he was caught out.

[98tls]

More promises with nothing to back it up methinks,plenty of bludgers in small town NZ as well as the big smokes,thing is that in the hundreds of small towns across NZ reside some of the worst cases of bludging your likely to find,welfare offices are generally staffed by losers that other than welfare offices would have little chance of employment anywhere else and in small towns the hangers on survive by being on good terms with said welfare employee and year in year out easily abuse the system.I a few weeks back atternded the March Hare rally and had the mis-fortune to come across a group of "havent done a days work in years but still have bikes and plenty to chuck across the bar" folk on a bender with there local Welfare computer expert.

[MIXONE]

Id tap it - even now.

And she would still crush your balls.

[Genestho]

I see on 10.30 Nightline news that Paula's proposals apparently breach the bill of rights.

If it's someone's right to say - FTW, I choose not to work but bludge of others who pay taxes - then the bill of rights needs amending.

Hangon, wasn't that in regards to widows benefits? I thought I read this somewhere today... Do you have a link to the news, please good sir?

EDIT: Please carry on you lot

[Forest]

It's all very well picking on the unemployed, but I'd like to see a government take on the real bludgers in our society.

The elderly!

The cost of servicing superannuation is considerably larger than all other social welfare benefits put together.

So why the fuck am I paying for greedy old cunts who no longer want to work?

Oh. That's right. It's because they vote.

[Deano]

Try to keep up. My response was to Quasi's idiotic blathering:

Admittedly I did not follow your argument with Quasi in context - It's hard to keep up when you spend more time in the real world than cyber space. Oh well.

[Deano]

Hangon, wasn't that in regards to widows benefits? I thought I read this somewhere today... Do you have a link to the news, please good sir?

EDIT: Please carry on you lot

It was a headline news bulletin. They didn't specify widows, just that some of the cuts breach the bill of rights.

[Genestho]

It's all very well picking on the unemployed, but I'd like to see a government take on the real bludgers in our society.

The elderly!

The cost of servicing superannuation is considerably larger than all other social welfare benefits put together.

So why the fuck am I paying for greedy old cunts who no longer want to work?

Oh. That's right. It's because they vote.

Er, surely that's a troll??? What about the taxes they've paid?