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[labellementeuse]

A pinch and a punch for the first of the month...
... and no returns.

Helen Clark is SO CLOSE TO LOSING MY VOTE. If she reacts ONCE MORE to Don Brash and his fucking WASTE OF TIME speeches, I swear I am going directly to Progressive Coalition.\

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[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that if I were amrter, I could make an argument out of the fact that all the examples you just gave were of upper-middle-class (sorry) dole bludgers. Them, okay, that bothers me. But what I see to be the stereotype of the dole bludger is the poorer, probably Polynesian, usually male guy who is too lazy to go to work- and that one really bothers me, because I just don't think that there are all that many people whose pride would allow them to do that.

Ooh, you don't agree with Brash? Dude!

Er, got a less biased source, btw??

Even if you didn't...
"unemployment and emergency benefits, -19%
sickness benefit, +62%
invalid's benefit, +149%
domestic purposes benefit, +41%
superannuation, +15%"

Hey, those are GOOD benefits. I think it is our social responsibility to take care of the sick and elderly, frankly, just as some of us will one day need to be taken care of. You'll note the expenditure that dropped was unemployment...

Also. "[spending last year was]$1.634 billion - an amount almost identical to the dole bill of 1993."
So 1.639B in 1993, 1.634 in 2003- but not only has the actual monetary value spent dropped, it has done so despite inflation. Yet later on in the article the author complains

"Yes, welfare spending on unemployment has dropped significantly but growth in every other area has meant overall spending continues to climb. "

Um, they just PROVED that it has not. *headthunk*