It's part of the by Maori, for Maori kaupapa so is run by maraes and iwi for mostly Maori participants. Reinstated, it will be exclusively for Maori. An evaluation of the scheme was generally positive.
To get them into work or upskill them into better work, the spend on each participant was "from $19,116 (excluding wage subsidies) in 2020/21 to $10,510 in 2023/24"
Based on the scheme's numbers to date I would estimate that Labour's budgeting to spend $21,000 on 1,000 participants annually.
How many Maori are unemployed right now? Just under 50,000 are on a Jobseeker-Work Ready benefit and a further 39,000 are on a sole parent benefit. Both of the numbers are the highest of any ethnicity including European.
So aren't these high numbers a good reason to 'invest' more in reducing them?
No. They are a good reason to stop spending billions on benefits which have led to a collapse of work ethic, an indifference (if not disdain) for education and inter-generational dependence on hand-outs.
That's what Labour has to get its head around. This policy is yet another go at putting out a bushfire with a watering can.
But no. Hipkins is openly using this hook to reel in the Maori electorates. Announcing the policy yesterday, he made his play:
Based on the scheme's numbers to date I would estimate that Labour's budgeting to spend $21,000 on 1,000 participants annually.
How many Maori are unemployed right now? Just under 50,000 are on a Jobseeker-Work Ready benefit and a further 39,000 are on a sole parent benefit. Both of the numbers are the highest of any ethnicity including European.
So aren't these high numbers a good reason to 'invest' more in reducing them?
No. They are a good reason to stop spending billions on benefits which have led to a collapse of work ethic, an indifference (if not disdain) for education and inter-generational dependence on hand-outs.
That's what Labour has to get its head around. This policy is yet another go at putting out a bushfire with a watering can.
But no. Hipkins is openly using this hook to reel in the Maori electorates. Announcing the policy yesterday, he made his play:
"Today we launched our Māori campaign..... And we're fighting to win all seven Māori electorates - with strong Māori voices in Parliament, grounded in their communities and fighting for the future their whānau deserve."
Then he blathered on about honouring te tiriti, tikanga Maori being "part of who we are" and wanting his kids to grow up bilingual.
What this signals is Labour's intention to resurrect and press on with a separatist agenda. Buying Maori votes with spending that doesn't make sense from any viewpoint. It doesn't make good economic sense. It puts the cart before the horse, and it is racially based.
Historically, it has been Labour's creation and constant expansion of welfare that has made Maori more prone to unemployment and family breakdown. Apirana Ngata predicted the problem when high family benefits started to flow into East Coast communities. Today thousands of Maori children grow up in workless, fatherless homes and we wonder why its hard to get them into the workforce?
Meanwhile, at every election, Labour promises to solve the problems of its own making. And sadly, many Maori keep believing the promise.
Lindsay Mitchell is a welfare commentator. This article was sourced HERE
4 comments:
The way it works is that the more people you get to be dependant on benefits, the more labour voters there will be. The more public servants you create and the more Pacific Island immigrants you bring into the country, the more Labour voters there will be as well, although recently most public servants have been going Green. Also, the more handouts you give Maori, the more unhappy they will be (because that makes them want more) and traditionally the more likely they will vote Labour. Who cares about the good of the country?
If you think that’s bad, wait til you hear what the property lobby got from Luxon in 2023. Appalling! And billions!
I agree Maori have self destructed in very many ways in promoting the Maori population growth through solo mothers, and having gangs , drugs and alcohol .etc . Generous welfare is also responsible .
However , to get the whole picture we also have had an iniquitous education system that did not encourage work ethic, discipline , morality, intellectual rigor, nor effective teaching methods but instead , play -way , child centered , entertainment-focused . sloppiness and laziness.
. All this has been most devastating to the most vulnerable - low income Maori.
How can you teach trades to any group who are barely literate or numerate , with no work ethic nor self -discipline? Well you can't .I've seen it many times . They don't know about finishing work, doing it conscientiously nor competently nor even applying themselves because schools don't teach that nor the home .It's considered repressive Gaynor
Unless you can quote some more specific facts anon 1150pm, you are just talking hot air. And even if what you say has some substance, what has it got to do with the subject in hand? One is private donated money and the other is splashed taxpayer money.
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