China begins a fourth and final day of Taiwan war games; US jobs growth above forecasts, which pushes rates up; Luxon proposes 'carrot and stick' to get young unemployed off benefit and into work.
Morning, I would really like to have your answers (or other pertinent commentators) to the Bill English unanswered questions- do you think you’ll have time to do this?
Aug 7, 2022·edited Aug 7, 2022Liked by Bernard Hickey
Hi Bernard,
“Or was it a convenient cover for ramping up sanctions in a way that drove already-poor young people even deeper into poverty?”
I agree that it seems like Luxon is going after low hanging fruit but there is a valid point here. Takeout the Tory Style poor bashing (if that’s what it is?) If these youngsters are perfectly capable of working, why should they be suckling the taxpayers nipple?
If you get the chance could you ask Christopher Luxon what National's policy is on businesses taking the wage benefit (some call it a subsidy) and using it to pay a dividend to shareholders.
I'd like to see a costing of this policy. Since Luxon didn't know that the sickness benefit was rolled into the jobseeker benefit, and since he isn't one to do details, I think a robust scrutiny is required.
With all the talk about labour shortages you have to ask why are these people not working? Are they actually not working or is the devil in the details that many of them are working whatever they can due to sickness & the jobseeker benefit is the top up? What story does raw figures don't tell us?
Regarding young job seekers, it's hypocritical for Luxon to say 'we're ending the free ride' when he is blantantly promoting tax cuts which will give him, a multi millionare, additional income of $20k a year.
Considering there’s a chance National may need Te Pāti Māori to get across the line on election night, how does Luxon see this policy sitting with them? A mountain is already needing to be climbed if Luxon hopes to make bed fellows out of Act and Te Pāti, suuurely he wants to have some olive branch policies.
Nancy Pelosi can go wherever she’s invited just like the Chinese diplomats did and do. They’ve been playing war games there forever. We can’t be supporting global geopolitical fictions and be seen to be supporting all male totalitarian regimes telling us what we can and cant do if we truly value freedom and human rights. Most countries need to focus on their own country and peoples resilience not letting off dangerous money wasting and polluting weapons or anything else destructive anywhere. When will they learn? It’s ALL men doing these things tantruming and overreacting like big ole manbabies and toddlers with extremely dangerous toys. Total hysterics they can’t even handle WORDS let alone anything else and we cant continue to be oppressed ,silenced and controlled by them. “Military silly billies destroy planet and people in their own region” oops ….not a great historic legacy. So stupid.
I would like to know how many people on the job seeker benefit are between the ages of 18 and 25 and are looking for work and do not have health issues which hamper their ability to work. With the job coaches is this a regulated sector or can anyone set themselves up as a job coach. What agency is going to monitor taxpayer money being given to these job coaches. What happens to a person on the job seeker benefit who does not get along with the person they have been allocated. What happens if there is no suitable job coaches in the area you live in.
I haven't read the National policy in detail yet, mostly because the rhetoric makes me want to vomit. But if they really want to get more bodies into the workforce (because the machine needs slaves for it to function..grow, grow, grow at all cost) then perhaps they could look at using sticks to get the dozen odd 50-60 year olds I know to start working, instead of living off their unearned rental income (much of which is paid by government)? Just a thought.
Here’s who’s getting a free ride: the landlords whose rental income is subsidised by the government in the form of the Accommodation Supplement which is paid to their tenants, and thus paid to them. Fascinating who, in society, is allowed a government ‘handout’ and who isn’t.
Is it that people who want to govern us prefer to be ignorant of reality as its too hard? I'd like to read a good analysis of the world of work in NZ. - can anyone suggest one? When i was working in community mental health as ain occupational therapist, the wish for a job loomed large for so many people that we worked with. And trying to achieve that was depressing. Car parks stopped having booths that some people enjoyed working in, and became mechanised. The Clubhouse in Dunedin ran a great programme that helped people develop work skills and begin jobs, but became reduced to a skeleton - part of a skeleton - because it wasn't producing whatever it was that whoever it was wanted. The only sane thing to do was give up.
Morning, I would really like to have your answers (or other pertinent commentators) to the Bill English unanswered questions- do you think you’ll have time to do this?
Hi Bernard,
“Or was it a convenient cover for ramping up sanctions in a way that drove already-poor young people even deeper into poverty?”
I agree that it seems like Luxon is going after low hanging fruit but there is a valid point here. Takeout the Tory Style poor bashing (if that’s what it is?) If these youngsters are perfectly capable of working, why should they be suckling the taxpayers nipple?
Hi Bernard
If you get the chance could you ask Christopher Luxon what National's policy is on businesses taking the wage benefit (some call it a subsidy) and using it to pay a dividend to shareholders.
Should they / must they repay?
I'd like to see a costing of this policy. Since Luxon didn't know that the sickness benefit was rolled into the jobseeker benefit, and since he isn't one to do details, I think a robust scrutiny is required.
With all the talk about labour shortages you have to ask why are these people not working? Are they actually not working or is the devil in the details that many of them are working whatever they can due to sickness & the jobseeker benefit is the top up? What story does raw figures don't tell us?
Regarding young job seekers, it's hypocritical for Luxon to say 'we're ending the free ride' when he is blantantly promoting tax cuts which will give him, a multi millionare, additional income of $20k a year.
Considering there’s a chance National may need Te Pāti Māori to get across the line on election night, how does Luxon see this policy sitting with them? A mountain is already needing to be climbed if Luxon hopes to make bed fellows out of Act and Te Pāti, suuurely he wants to have some olive branch policies.
Nancy Pelosi can go wherever she’s invited just like the Chinese diplomats did and do. They’ve been playing war games there forever. We can’t be supporting global geopolitical fictions and be seen to be supporting all male totalitarian regimes telling us what we can and cant do if we truly value freedom and human rights. Most countries need to focus on their own country and peoples resilience not letting off dangerous money wasting and polluting weapons or anything else destructive anywhere. When will they learn? It’s ALL men doing these things tantruming and overreacting like big ole manbabies and toddlers with extremely dangerous toys. Total hysterics they can’t even handle WORDS let alone anything else and we cant continue to be oppressed ,silenced and controlled by them. “Military silly billies destroy planet and people in their own region” oops ….not a great historic legacy. So stupid.
Hi Bernard.
I would like to know how many people on the job seeker benefit are between the ages of 18 and 25 and are looking for work and do not have health issues which hamper their ability to work. With the job coaches is this a regulated sector or can anyone set themselves up as a job coach. What agency is going to monitor taxpayer money being given to these job coaches. What happens to a person on the job seeker benefit who does not get along with the person they have been allocated. What happens if there is no suitable job coaches in the area you live in.
Cheers
Paul
I haven't read the National policy in detail yet, mostly because the rhetoric makes me want to vomit. But if they really want to get more bodies into the workforce (because the machine needs slaves for it to function..grow, grow, grow at all cost) then perhaps they could look at using sticks to get the dozen odd 50-60 year olds I know to start working, instead of living off their unearned rental income (much of which is paid by government)? Just a thought.
Here’s who’s getting a free ride: the landlords whose rental income is subsidised by the government in the form of the Accommodation Supplement which is paid to their tenants, and thus paid to them. Fascinating who, in society, is allowed a government ‘handout’ and who isn’t.
Is it that people who want to govern us prefer to be ignorant of reality as its too hard? I'd like to read a good analysis of the world of work in NZ. - can anyone suggest one? When i was working in community mental health as ain occupational therapist, the wish for a job loomed large for so many people that we worked with. And trying to achieve that was depressing. Car parks stopped having booths that some people enjoyed working in, and became mechanised. The Clubhouse in Dunedin ran a great programme that helped people develop work skills and begin jobs, but became reduced to a skeleton - part of a skeleton - because it wasn't producing whatever it was that whoever it was wanted. The only sane thing to do was give up.