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“Nanny State” V.2.0 — courtesy of the NATs — and the spin excusing it!

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« Reply #50 on: May 09, 2012, 11:43:59 pm »




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« Reply #51 on: May 10, 2012, 12:18:47 am »




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guess you be calling for a Poster for your bedroom then are you KTJ ......
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« Reply #52 on: May 12, 2012, 10:53:20 am »

...and we thought Labour was bad when it came to state intervention.

Benefits may be linked to kids' jabs
 By Isaac Davison and Kate Shuttleworth


5:30 AM Saturday May 12, 2012


 
The Government is considering requiring beneficiaries to immunise their children.
 
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett told the Herald: "We see immunisations as important so when you're looking at those kinds of things, you question at what point should a social obligation be part of a requirement to get a benefit.
 
"Ministers have not made a decision on it, but it is certainly something we are discussing."
 
Under any changes, beneficiaries would be able to opt out of immunisation for conscientious reasons. But it would change the social obligation of people on welfare to vaccinate their children.
 
A Welfare Working Group recommended last year that the children of parents receiving a benefit should have to meet minimum health standards, including completion of the immunisation schedule.
 
The confidence and supply agreement between the National Party and the Act Party includes the implementation of this proposal within this parliamentary term.
 
A Ministry of Health briefing paper released under the Official Information Act showed that it was being considered ahead of the next wave of welfare reforms.
 
A spokeswoman for Ms Bennett said encouraging immunisation was on the table but no decision had been made.
 
In October 2010, a select committee made 30 recommendations on how to improve immunisation rates.
 
In March, officials reported to Health Minister Tony Ryall about progress on the final six recommendations.
 
The briefing paper, written in March, said the Ministry of Health would work closely with the Ministry of Social Development over the next three months "to explore further opportunities for incentivising parents and providers to ensure children receive their schedule immunisations".
 
At present, immunisations are not compulsory.
 
While not raised by the Ministry of Health or the minister, the Welfare Working Group suggested that if a beneficiary did not comply with health checks for their children, it would result in their income being managed by a third party or other means, such as a payment card.
 
Co-leader of the Green Party Metiria Turei said the state did not have the right to use financial pressure on parents to force them to immunise their children.
 
" ... This is an extension of the approach to contraception and exactly the sort of slippery slope we have been warning against."
 
Ms Bennett's office would not confirm whether the incentive would be rolled out in the next reform announcement, expected in August.
 
The No Forced Vaccine Group coordinator Katherine Smith said the confidence and supply agreement and the recommendation from the committee were ambiguous and lacked detail. "I think it is an insult to vulnerable people for the Government to consider any legislation that infringes on parents' rights to decide freely whether they want their children to have either or all recommended vaccinations."
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« Reply #53 on: May 12, 2012, 12:02:57 pm »


But wait....that isn't all.

The Nats are practising sexism.

While they are planning nanny state with young women, they are sneaking through leglislation to partially let young men off the hook from their responsibilities when it comes to pregnancies resulting from them screwing around.



When it comes to upholding its founding principle of individual responsibility, however, National appears to have one rule for women and no rules for men.
 
Then again when you are tackling something as politically-charged as welfare reform, it is a lot easier to take the route of least resistance and pander to the public's stereotyping of largely female sole parent beneficiaries than confront the largely male evaders of child support obligations.
 
It is supreme irony that in the same week debate raged over whether National's budgeting of $1 million for doctor's visits for beneficiaries wanting contraception amounted to social engineering or was merely common sense, legislation easing the penalty regime for non-payment of child support was quietly making its passage through Parliament almost unnoticed.



Read all about that in the following column written by John Armstrong (NZ Herald political reporter)....

Welfare rejig carries whiff of hypocrisy


As usual, the Nats filth are up to their hypocrisy tricks yet again! 
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« Reply #54 on: May 29, 2012, 11:19:00 pm »


The latest NANNY STATE from the Nats....




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« Reply #55 on: May 30, 2012, 03:39:46 pm »

The harder they make it to get a licence the more non compliance they will get.

I have my doubts whether Sp2 will ever get her drivers licence. It will be hard for her to learn to drive to start with but the new test with its strict verbal componant requireing the driver to identify hazards to the tester would likely scupper Sp2's chances of passing. That wouldn't be a reflexion of her ability to drive but her ability to communicate.
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