On The Crackdown On The Beneficiary Poor
For the past 50 years, the centre-right has been using beneficiaries as a political punching bag. This was (slightly) more forgivable during the Muldoon era, when unemployment in New Zealand was still something of a post war novelty, and could readily be blamed on the handful of people on the welfare rolls. Not now. We are living through an economic slowdown engineered by the Reserve Bank to crush household spending, which – perversely – the RB blamed for inflation. As a result, unemployment is at a three-year high and rising, helped along by the government’s deliberately trashing the jobs of thousands of public servants.
13 Aug 13:39 · SCOOP