ACT, National could govern...the stuff of nightmares

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Given the state of our planet I think its rather more than 'having their hearts in the right place' & perhaps more a matter of our survival.

National may well have 'business sense' but it lacks understanding of the day to day struggle people are now coping with & doesn't show even the tiniest inclination to attempt understanding.
A country is not a business & should be well run for the benefit of us all rather than just a small group of the well off.



I see the usual myth is still alive & well - beneficiaries are lazy layabouts who don't want to work'.

Greed is certainly a very damaging  factor; Neo Liberalism is based on it, to the detriment of this & virtually every country which foolishly adopted it.

I said "There are people who need and deserve benefits to survive ..... ". And the fact is that there ARE far too many whose laziness and greed is just taking money away from where it's really needed

Not all beneficiaries are lazy layabouts by any means, but there are plenty who are just taking all they can get and giving nothing back to society. Meanwhile those of us who do pay the taxes that are used to pay for it all are not seeing the societal benefits that we should. If money was freed up across the board within fairer systems where everyone gives what they should and doesn't try to rip everyone off, maybe we could then afford the levels of health etc that we theoretically have paid for. You expect the hard working "rich" - whoever they actually are - to fork out more tax, just so it can be wasted away and not used for the best benefit of society as a whole.

Seriously, how far do you think the money will really go,  paid to "the far too many whose laziness and greed is just taking money away from where it's really needed" ?  

Even if ALL the unemployed in NZ (currently around 102,000) are the lazy yobs you make them out to be, that is probably only 30-40 million...    Not really sure that will be enough to "afford the levels of health etc that we theoretically have paid for."  It's a drop in the bucket...