Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.
* Average taken from figures from 2008-2009 to 2010-2011 financial years. Source
** Child Poverty Action Group’s estimate of annual cost to provide breakfasts for the poorest 30% of primary and intermediate schools ($18.9 million) Source
So that’s why we are hemorrhaging cash.
They can’t / wont look for themselves because they need scapegoats to blame.
Hungry schoolkids don’t vote and their parents probably won’t vote National, so why bother?
Sack between four and ten consultants and theirs the money!
Not likely Nationals trougher couldn’t afford their luxury lifstylea that would be to hard!
They need to consult us as to what the hell they are doing in government.
I wonder if they even check the consultants credentials.
They wouldn’t know what to check is my guess.
…yep… the amount of time this government spends fixating on welfare would be better spent working on how to increase jobs/opportunities for people.
Closing the disparity on income would be a good start.
Dear Nact,
Stop fixating on the unemployed and start showing us the jobs.
Kicking the unemployed lowers wages (which John Key did promise to do) and increases profits while creating work does the opposite.
DTB
…Perhaps the Nats might actually read the research they just spent $1Million on conducting and start factoring in the true costs of such an approach?
Thats 1/4 of the money kids can is aking for sack more consultants!
mike e
Please note I am referring to money they have already spent.
I’m sure I could do a much better job, and I’d do it for $50k a year
This is the graphic of the year. Well done IF. It puts reality so starkly …