The Greens have put their policies on the table in and you can only admire them for being upfront about them.
But like most politicians they’re full of generalisations, headlines and bluster that are not far removed from a socialist utopia – which in the history of the world has never actually existed.
“We will tax the mega rich” shouted Marama Davidson yesterday so that “everyone in Aotearoa will have what they need to have kai on the table, a safe place to call home and live a good life. We must reduce the outrageous and immoral level of wealth inequality we have in this country.”
Who puts ideas like this in these peoples’ brains?
Has she never heard of this thing called personal responsibility? Has she never encountered ambition? Or looking after yourself in your pathway through life?
The state, with its vast resources and hundred billion dollar income is there to help out in times of need. That’s what Mickey Savage’s Welfare State was about in 1938. It was never, ever intended as a career.
Yet here we are 85 years later with three hundred and forty five thousand people on a main benefit. That is more than one in ten of the working age population.
So what do the Greens want to do? They want to make those who work and accumulate some assets hand over a part of that asset base and probably even more of that income so that those on a benefit will have even less incentive to go to work and get ahead in life.
Frankly the Greens policy is nuts. But then watching the TV coverage of their conference on the news on Sunday night, I couldn’t get over how many of the delegates were wearing masks – still.
Haven’t they heard that the pandemic is officially over and masks don’t really protect you anyway?
Maybe after hearing the stupid anti-progress and lacking-in-ambition Greens social policy, many delegates were just plain embarrassed and wanted to be anonymous in case they were seen in the background on the TV news.
Peter Williams was a writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines. Peter blogs regularly on Peter’s Substack where this article was sourced.
Who puts ideas like this in these peoples’ brains?
Has she never heard of this thing called personal responsibility? Has she never encountered ambition? Or looking after yourself in your pathway through life?
The state, with its vast resources and hundred billion dollar income is there to help out in times of need. That’s what Mickey Savage’s Welfare State was about in 1938. It was never, ever intended as a career.
Yet here we are 85 years later with three hundred and forty five thousand people on a main benefit. That is more than one in ten of the working age population.
So what do the Greens want to do? They want to make those who work and accumulate some assets hand over a part of that asset base and probably even more of that income so that those on a benefit will have even less incentive to go to work and get ahead in life.
Frankly the Greens policy is nuts. But then watching the TV coverage of their conference on the news on Sunday night, I couldn’t get over how many of the delegates were wearing masks – still.
Haven’t they heard that the pandemic is officially over and masks don’t really protect you anyway?
Maybe after hearing the stupid anti-progress and lacking-in-ambition Greens social policy, many delegates were just plain embarrassed and wanted to be anonymous in case they were seen in the background on the TV news.
Peter Williams was a writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines. Peter blogs regularly on Peter’s Substack where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
Utopia is one thing.
Socialism is another.
They are like water and oil, they never mix and one is hard to get rid of once it is one you.
The Greens' total ignorance of Economics is amazing - but they do not care. Marxist slogans are all they really need - in their view.
Their message has great appeal for the lazy and the bludgers.....
D Day is coming fast.
WATERMELONS!! Green on the outside, red on the inside.
Perhaps Marama could consider taking some of the very unequal monies she snags of the taxpayer and donating it to those she pretends to care about.
Michael Bassett has written some excellent articles on the shocking state our welfare system is in and pointed out that Savage would be horrified at what we have now. A strong work ethic in the population is required to make the welfare system sustainable. Sure there are bludgers and inter generational welfare dependence but from my perspective as an educationalist we also need a population well grounded in basic education. To achieve this we need traditional teaching methods with direct instruction, discipline and ethics,and develop work habits in pupils at school, as we used to have before 1950. We now have none of these.
Two out of three students who fail to achieve proficiency in reading will end up on welfare or in prison. Our Ministry of mis-Education entrenched in socialist and sociological ideology insists on blaming social and economical conditions alone for the catastrophic failure we now have in the basics.
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