Remember when the New Zealand Government handed out KFC vouchers to encourage people to get vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic? A little taste of the Colonel, all in the name of public health. That got me thinking. If we were happy to bribe people with junk food to take a vaccine, why stop there?
So here’s my proposal.
Let’s offer KFC vouchers to high-risk beneficiaries who make responsible, long-term reproductive choices. Simple as that. If you’re on the benefit and already have more than two kids, it’s time for some tough love and a $100 KFC voucher to go with it.
Men could be quietly approached by friendly outreach workers at WINZ, offered the chance to get a free vasectomy plus a $100 KFC voucher to sweeten the deal. Snip it at the source, save the taxpayer some grief.
For women? Liquorland vouchers in exchange for getting their tubes tied. No pressure, just an incentive to help them make a permanent decision to stop having benefit-funded babies.
Before anyone screams, WINZ already funds vasectomies. I’m just suggesting we boost uptake with a couple of buckets of hot and spicy. We used junk food to promote a mass public health campaign once. We can do it again
Men could be quietly approached by friendly outreach workers at WINZ, offered the chance to get a free vasectomy plus a $100 KFC voucher to sweeten the deal. Snip it at the source, save the taxpayer some grief.
For women? Liquorland vouchers in exchange for getting their tubes tied. No pressure, just an incentive to help them make a permanent decision to stop having benefit-funded babies.
Before anyone screams, WINZ already funds vasectomies. I’m just suggesting we boost uptake with a couple of buckets of hot and spicy. We used junk food to promote a mass public health campaign once. We can do it again
Click image to view - WINZ already funds vasectomies.
This would be 100% voluntary and also very practical. “We’re simply giving people the opportunity to make empowered, calorie-rich decisions,” one might say, ideally while licking chicken grease off their fingers.
Every child born into long-term hardship costs the state tens of thousands in benefits, housing and social services. Every combo deal handed out today could mean tens of thousands saved tomorrow. A small investment for a long-term return.
I wonder if Luxon would give my idea the green light?
Ethical concerns? Spare me. We bribed people with fried chicken to take an experimental vaccine and called it public service. This is no different. It’s family planning with a side of slaw.
Call it brutal, call it tasteless, but if we’re serious about addressing generational welfare dependency, then it’s time for bold, outside-the-box thinking. And a $100 KFC voucher might just be the box to start with.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
13 comments:
I grew up in Denmark. Denmark has a very strong social welfare system, a very generous social welfare system. But .. if you choose (yes these days it is a choice) to become pregnant while receiving a benefit from the state not only are you asked serious questions from officals, there is no guarantee of additional money, there is a long process of being made aware of personal responsibility etc, but family, friends, neighbours will be very unimpressed and will let you know. you are shamed. We need more from our officals of that same approach here !!!!!!!
Haha, matua, this was a great morning giggle.
The interesting thing about what you say is that it's not race based. It's only the left that make your comments race based. The left will immediately gravitate that your comments are racist. They are not. There are all types of races that seem to have far too many of their family sucking from the public tit.
I too could have had 10 kids. I chose not to. It appears to me that if you have anything that resembles a brain and you are on a benefit that you should do a cost benefit analysis and see if having another kid is actually a good idea. However, if you don't have anything that resembles a brain or it's not working due to alcohol or meth consumption then the outcome is unfortunately done and dusted.
Matua, it's actually an iq issue. And man we seem to have a very large percentage of stupid people in this country that think they are entitled to my hard worked generosity. I have never had one benefit parasite come up to me and thank me for supporting them.
THAT is the Best Idea I have read for years! Brilliant thinking. And hits the right folk right where it all happens.... greed, food, sex......
Given the PM's performance and lack of fortitude in dealing with many issues I think he has already taken up the KFC 'challenge/bribe' and got a total orchotomy.
Perhaps the first step involves the advice shown from WINZ. Take all the maybes out of the picture. Just a simple statement:
If you are on a benefit or low income then WINZ will fully fund vasectomies and tubal ligation if requested. Just make it a very simple and easy process.
Then throw in a choice of free options. KFC, maccas, liquor land, even paknsav.
Instead of villainizing beni,s when the whole western worlds birth rate is in the toilet, why not encourage family values again instead of berating folks for breeding or are only rich kids welcome in society these days, try some dating clubs or go bake to dances and events that bring people together, not everyone is a leach on a benefit, in todays mismanaged economy even the workers are dirt poor
Many, many "moons" ago, the NZ Army held a field exercise at Waiouru Base Camp. Part of the exercise was the use of (then) their field military hospital and the associated people (mostly civilian Medical people, with attachment to this Army Unit) along with Army Medical staff and to facilitate the use of this large system, and the people involved (during the exercise), they "offered" to any male the opportunity to have a vasectomy - which was "taken up" by many.
It allowed them to function the surgical side, and post operative care under "field exercise conditions".
Sadly that Mobile Hospital no longer exists, if it did, think how Matua's "theory" could have been put to use, along with the Army's field kitchen team[s].
No overloading our hospitals, for a simple operation and would be very mobile.
You know - "Chop, chop" followed by Kai?? Sorry "snip, snip".
To hell with KFC or any fast-food enticements.
How about the average kiwi just grow up and start taking responsibility.
Friendly outreach at WINZ?!
How about a dose of reality instead
They can either submit to a vasectomy but no more extra benefit.
The other alternative is 'get a job'...we are not monsters after all.
"We bribed people with fried chicken to take an experimental vaccine and called it public service. This is no different. It’s family planning with a side of slaw."
It is less deceptive, but just as evil.
"Call it brutal, call it tasteless, but if we’re serious about addressing generational welfare dependency, then it’s time for bold, outside-the-box thinking."
And when we're all on dependent upon the because the communists took over then the state can tell you whether you can have children or not (or not being the most likely outcome). This is wicked and evil no matter which way you approach it. It doesn't actually address welfare dependency, it simply says some class of the population isn't fit to have any more children.
Not only saving many hundreds of thousands of $s in support, medical, security, and future incarceration costs, it helps save the planet too. It's known as a win win!
Of course, having to name father's and not incentivising additional births would also greatly assist the objective, but that's nowhere near as virtuous, nor as satisfying, as giving away free stuff - especially if it involves instant gratification and a photo op. While much cheaper, the latter policies would take some cajones to implement. So, sadly, it's unlikely the invertebrate mentioned (with the suspected orchotomy), would be up to it.
Anon@4.13, it's neither wicked nor evil, as some just lack the responsibility and ability to successfully bring up offspring in the world - a world with finite resources at that. But you just carry on with your virtuous thinking, while the rest of us fix up and pay for the mess.
Welfare should be a hand up, not a hand out.
China has abandoned its one child policy because it is resulting in population collapse. This is a risk for all Western Nations who have embraced the birth control policies of eugenicists. The ideas behind this policy are no different to forcing fertility reducing vaccines on the children of beneficiaries in order to receive payments.
In the recent past many people lost their jobs for refusing to take shots containing lipid nanoparticles which were known to be toxic and accumulate in the reproductive organs, particularly the ovaries of recipients.
There is nothing protecting the public from mandatory injections and many mechanisms of coercion. Eugenics is rife in our society. It just isn’t labelled as such.
Sound common sense! Only New Zealanders could see this as anything other than an eminently sensible suggestion. It takes my mind back to a tent in the heart of the crowded Chandi Chowk in Old Delhi on a late summer day in 1976 which offered vasectomies in return for a 2 lb tin of milk powder and an alarm clock. There was a queue waiting to make the exchange.
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