If it were at all possible to make KiwiBuild look like a stellar success then Labour has managed just that with the news that they’ve spent over $50 million to create just FOUR jobs:
The Government has been accused of working at a glacial pace on fixing Maori unemployment as an ongoing $50 million training scheme has created just four new Maori jobs in eight months.
The Maori Trades and Training Fund is a contestable, grant-based initiative from the Covid-19 response and recovery package in Budget 2020.
Proposals must be by-Maori and for Maori, aiming to upskill participants and provide “meaningful opportunities into employment”. The proposals should be able to get up and running quickly to respond to the impact of Covid-19.
So far, $11.4m has been committed to approved projects with $1.8m paid out.
Race-based funding appears to be a spectacular failure, worse even than KiwiBuild, which was a spectacular failure.
It isn’t hard to see why it is a failure. Look at this line up of deadset useless senior Labour Maori MPs:
If brains were dynamite they wouldn’t have enough to blow their collective noses.
Maori voters have Stockholm Syndrome. They just keep voting blindly for a party that literally does nothing for them. In fact, they are so conditioned to voting Labour that it could easily be described as Pavlovian.
The patronising manner in which Labour treats Maori seems to have no consequences.
However, National would be wasting their time and effort even bothering to help those who will not help themselves. Maori keep voting for a party that wants them poor, dumb and useless.
Meanwhile, this government will just keep topping up the trough for projects that enrich the elites providing these courses, with no consequences for the appalling outcomes for the dollars spent.
Hell, it would have been better (and a whole lot more fun) to pile the $50 million up in the middle of Queen Street and use it to warm the homeless.
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