It started in the early 70's when Britain joined the EEC and the first petrol price shock hit.
It was even ‘cool' to be on the dole, if I can remember back that far. I spent time in New Zealand & Australia collecting money for being unemployed, about a month or two in each case. It didn't make me a better person. These days we have large sectors of our society using welfare to continue to fail, and into the next generation & beyond. We, in effect, pay them for failing. They are monetarily rewarded for doing nothing.
This large, and getting larger, bottom end is dragging New Zealand to its knees. Over 300,000 working aged people are either useless or sick. Struth, there's only 2 million of us that work for money to start with.
Single parent and multi-partner households that can't seem to do much without getting into trouble are costing us all our future. It's time to think up a new strategy. Welfare isn't working!
Graeme Martin, Otumoetai.
3 comments
WHY WELFARE HARMS ALL
Posted on 22-06-2012 17:40 | By YOGI
When voters learn that their vote can be used to dip into the public purse and so benefit ones self personally then that is the end of democracy from within. None of the usual suspect terroists are needed here, just start milking the cow that feeds and suck until it is dry.
NEVER DOES
Posted on 25-06-2012 19:49 | By YOGI
That is actually the idea that money is paid out for "NOT" working, that is a really bad idea as that only encourages many of the same.
FATALLY FLAWED
Posted on 28-06-2012 19:51 | By TERMITE
Only encourages dependance on the state, the after a generation the same happens to teh off spring. The pattern repeats and slowly many citizens become for example "unemployable" so what was it all to achieve? Certainly did not work did it.
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