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Friday, August 20, 2010

Me vs David P Farrar on Q+A this Sunday, TV One 9am


This Sunday, 9am on TV One Q+A launch Bloggerheads where two bloggers from the NZ Blogosphere square off on one topic, to launch it this Sunday it's me vs David P Farrar from Kiwiblog on the issue of the ACT implosion.

3 Comments:

At 20/8/10 7:48 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Be very careful Martyn. Can you afford the defamation suit?

 
At 20/8/10 8:07 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The chaotic and almost anarchic current crime ridden and murderous breakdown within N.Z represents a clear and a shining example of the neo-liberal paradigm or shift in political philosophy over the so-called entrenched inter-generational welfare debate.

From what was once the social welfare laboratory in terms of universal provision of benefits and student allowances and compulsory super to targetted means testing of student loans and time limits on sickness and invalids benefits and stricter rules for solo mums all of which make harder and contribute to the all encompassing and the fall in terms of social cohesion which is now in a rapid freefall.

This almost historical/hysterical reversal of social-welfare-policy provision means that we must now face up to and contest the basics of rogernomics and ruthanasia the skeletons of which remains the bones we are all chewing currently.

The World BANK and the IMF and the OECD all point to the radical experiment failing international tests of legitimacy.Here we have a notoriously thin democracy with an executive boss over-riding cabinet and caucus decisions and legislation for off the cuff decisions of a CEO type nature rolling over commitments overseas for one example.With our small population trapped by isolation geographically we make a good test tube breeding ground for dysfunction.Neoliberalism is still the dominant paradigm of social provisions.

CITIZENS HAVE BEEN RE-DEFINED AS USER PAYS CONSUMERS ONLY OF PRIMARILY EDUCATION AND VOLUNTARY DONATIONS OR OUT OF ZONE FEES AT STATE SCHOOLS.

THE PUBLIC SECTOR IS CURRENTLY UNDERGOING SIGNIFICANT DOWNSIZING ESPECIALLY IN THE SUPERCITY WITH A REDUCED RATES BASE TO SUBSIDISE PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN TIME FOR THE RUGBY WORLD CUP NEXT YEAR.

 
At 21/8/10 1:24 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

In N.Z a distinctive strand of neo-liberalism has now been entrenched since they first cut the benefit's by up to a quarter for solo mum's in the 1991 never to be reversed ever since decline in child poverty rates and substance abuse and addictions.Nowhere is the sharp decline more evident than in education and social welfare rights to a free education for beneficiaries and their kids.Targetting more social assistance at these groups is just the beginning of a revolutionary change in social welfare provision in the future. A modest safety net will no longer suffice. N.Zers do not want to be free to join the cues of immigrants wanting low paid jobs.We expect something better for our own.People coming here from overseas will just have to take their chances like the rest of us. No one wants to be freed from independence on the dole to enslavement to the bosses.Old welfare entrenchment does not encourage less effort around the house or self reliance on talkback talkin up a storm.Or bloggin.In the eyes of neoliberals it is we the underclass who are solely responsible for with rights so responsibility for juvenile truancy illiteracy and innumeracy alcohol abuse and binge drinking in the early teens.No treatment centres pass the buck and the blame.

 

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