A fund of $4 million has just been launched to assist young Maori to get their driver's licence so that they are better able to get work or keep out of jail.
Many young people cannot stump up the three-tiered cost of $338.20 to get their licence.
Why is the taxpayer funding yet another programme based on ethnicity and why doesn't our elected government govern for all NZ citizens based on need, not on the squeaky wheel of tribal
Maori elite?
M Anderson, Pyes Pa.
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Mr Bridges
Posted on 16-06-2017 09:40 | By the roofer
Great question. Maybe Mr Bridges could give us a smile and tell us the answer.
Not Racist
Posted on 16-06-2017 13:37 | By waxing
It's based on need so don't jump onto your bandwagon. It has been done before by Work & Income (and their predecessors) in other areas and other groups. It actually seems sensible in areas where there isn't public transport.
@ waxing
Posted on 17-06-2017 07:38 | By Captain Sensible
"need" ??? What about the needs of the non-maori Kiwis? Are you simple enough to think maori have a monopoly on poverty? OMG!!!
Why is it?
Posted on 18-06-2017 14:47 | By crazyhorse
That having a tea spoon full of Maori blood or relating to maori make you completely unable to take responsibility for yourself or stand on your own 2 feet, giving someone something for nothing makes them worth nothing.
Race based obsession by the usual culprits.
Posted on 19-06-2017 12:47 | By R. Bell
There are 27,000 unemployed Maori youth out of a total of 80,000 .They are three times more likely to get work if they have a licence, this funding also promotes birth cert's and passports, all aimed at a sense of responsibility. Gotta be good for the country. Alternative..... more costly policing, more costly legal representation, more costly court time, more costly probation, more costly incarceration running into hundreds of millions. All funded by the taxpayer. Four million is peanuts. If non Maori feel shortchanged, removing this targeted funding is NOT the answer. Get your own. Robin Bell.
@ Captain Sensible & crazyhorse
Posted on 25-06-2017 14:27 | By waxing
Get over your race-based anti-Maori obsessions and, again, get your facts right. The first trial of helping unemployed get licenses was done as far back as 1996 by the then Work & Income equivalent. It was done for all people. It has continued since then for different groups in different places, based on need. As I said, it is entirely sensible in areas lacking public transport and where unemployed have to travel distances to work. Would you prefer that we all carry on simply paying unemployment benefits?
Get over your race-based anti-Maori obsessions
Posted on 26-06-2017 14:58 | By crazyhorse
Waxing and Bell talk as if this public funding of licences for maori is a one off, it's only 4 million dollars, there are maori only initiatives throughout all and everything in NZ, where does it end, Bell is honest in saying it's All funded by the taxpayer, truth is it's just another 4 million tacked on to a list that costs the NZ taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars a year, we are not talking about a long lost tribe from the Amazon here, most of these people have a tiny trace of maori in their blood but it opens up a world of "free" stuff and "privileges" if the system is worked properly and at the moment the National government's racially based system is on full speed ahead, working a treat, if you're maori that is.
@crazyhorse
Posted on 27-06-2017 15:57 | By waxing
Baseless smears again attempting to re-write history to suit your prejudices. Can't win the argument so you move onto a new one. Boring...
SAD BUT TRUE.
Posted on 27-06-2017 16:49 | By crazyhorse
K1W1'S have no choice over who their parents are. Birth is a lottery and that is what makes it so unfair. Two babies born on the same day, in the same town, in the same country, have different rights and privileges simply because of their race " imagined or not". Something needs to change, this is fact not fiction campers and remember you are the racists!!, believe it or not you do not have to apologise for being "white"".
BUT WE NEED MORE, WE WILL HAVE MORE!.
Posted on 27-06-2017 18:19 | By crazyhorse
Maori-only schools, * Special Maori content in the education curriculum, * Maori-only education scholarships, * Maori-only housing projects, * Maori-only health initiatives, * Maori-only welfare initiatives, * Maori-only prisoner programmes, * Maori-only positions on government agencies, * Maori-only consultation rights under the Resource Management Act, * Maori-only co-management of parks, rivers, lakes, and the coastline, * Maori-only ownership rights to the foreshore and seabed,
AND SOME MORE, BUT, STILL NOT ENOUGH
Posted on 27-06-2017 18:21 | By crazyhorse
A special Maori Authority tax rate of 17.5 percent, * A special Maori-only exemption to allow blood relatives to qualify for charitable status, * Maori language funding, * Maori radio and TV, * Maori-only seats on local councils, * Maori-only appointments onto local government committees, * Maori-only local government Statutory Boards, * Maori-only local government advisory committees, * Maori seats in Parliament,
@crazyhorse
Posted on 19-07-2017 13:20 | By waxing
And I could list an equivalent (and longer) list of other ethnic group exclusive scholarships and funding. But you're not protesting about them are you? You're only concerned about New Zealand's indigenous people that you are determined not to recognize in any form whatsoever. You are boring in your obsessions, usually factually incorrect and emotive. But if constantly writing commenting here fills your day and makes you happy, then I am at least pleased for you that something does.
WAXING IS GOING TO GIVE US A LIST
Posted on 19-07-2017 13:42 | By crazyhorse
Waxing has said he will give us a list of other ethnic group exclusive scholarships and funding, great! give us the list.
Waxing
Posted on 20-07-2017 14:56 | By crazyhorse
Waxing said he could list an equivalent (and longer) list of other ethnic group exclusive scholarships and funding all supplied by the K1W1 tax payer, but, no list from waxing??, because, there is none, he is being factually incorrect and emotive.
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