Posted by alexandra_k on August 20, 2018, at 18:25:51
In reply to Re: balance of power » alexandra_k, posted by beckett2 on August 19, 2018, at 18:13:23
> As I mentioned, I think as NZ as a paradise, but then I read about the high youth suicide rates, and I can compare this to more rural areas where there is a lack of social services. So I try to reconcile these.
We have lack of social services in our urban centres, too.
We post security guards outside Work and Income etc to decline entry to people who might want to apply for Welfare.
We increasingly have online forms that must be submitted. And the forms are buggy such that they are impossible to complete. You either can't complete the form because there is internal incoherancy built in, or because you are forced to lie (because there is no selectable option that is truthful). Passwords are unnecessarily long and convoluted so re-logging is next to impossible. You need to submit your unnecessarily complicated email to be then sent a text code which is also unnecessarily complicated that needs to be entered (no mistakes) within 2 minutes...
But, sure, we have relatively low numbers of people on welfare... And so on... Sure, sure, sure we do.
People go blind or die on public waiting lists because the DHB didn't hire the staff needed to get through the lists. I don't think they care, particularly, I think they want to scare people into purchasing private health insurance so they can pay personally for all the things that used to be covered publically.
It's just another way of drawing a ring around a group of people and saying: 'Not for you'.
I think every country is the same - aren't they? They draw a ring around an ever-increasing proportion of their population (and an ever-increasing number of people) and they declare that there will not be jobs for them (or there will only be jobs f*ck*ng over their own people for them) and they will not have the funds to purchase health care or education or much of anything else in the market, either.
Segments who simply are not provided with basics such as clean drinking water and adequate sanitation.
There are communities like that in NZ and Australia and the USA and England and so on... Aren't there? Every country likes to keep a certain amount of their people treated as scum. OUtside prisons, I mean. People who haven't done anything wrong. People smart enough to ask for help and fill out forms before they started rendering them impossible... And so on...
> I'm on the pacific coast--very cold water!
Hmm... I can do west and east and south and north... Do you mean north of the west coast? I hear it is pretty up there... Fall. Pretty colours in the fall.
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