So, how’d that “Wellbeing Budget” work out for you, New Zealand… oops, ‘Aotearoa’? Are you all feeling the kindness, yet? Is the Gross Domestic Happiness keeping you warm, this winter?
Especially those of you sleeping in your cars?
Former New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters has slammed the NZ government after a shock report revealed the extent of the nation’s cost of living crisis.
Latest figures showed that hundreds of New Zealanders were suffering through a freezing Winter living in their cars with those on the ground describing the conditions as ‘heart-breaking’.
“The latest figures show there are now around five times the number of people living in cars than there were before Labour was in government. How can the ‘be kind’ Labour Party explain that?” Peters, now leader of the New Zealand First party, posted on social media.
Now, to be fair, homelessness is a growing problem in many countries, including Australia. This winter is the first time I’ve been confronted with tent communities springing up under Launceston’s bridges, or people sleeping on the footpath in the CBD.
But Jacinda Ardern is the one who came to government specifically promising to reduce poverty. She’s the one who made a mantra out of “kindness”, and bragged about leading the world with her “Wellbeing Budget”. Jacinda Ardern the former International Union of Socialist Youth leader is the one who sneered that “capitalism has failed us”.
In fact, Jacinda the Junior Socialist is the one who has catastrophically failed New Zealand.
At the end of 2017, NZ Ministry of Social Development records showed 108 Kiwis reported living in cars but latest figures show that number has blown out to 480.
Last month a 72-year-old woman died while living in her car on an Auckland suburban street in freezing conditions.
The New Zealand Herald reported:
She and her vehicle were so well kept that neighbours only realised she was living inside it when they spotted her wiping the car’s windows from the inside because of the condensation that had built up.
The Auckland City Mission, which typically gets about 15 calls a month saying people are sleeping in cars or rough, says that number has now jumped to about 15 calls a week.
The blame sheets directly home to Ardern and her idiotic policies.
The cost of living crisis has especially hit New Zealand hard after it spent over two years pursuing a Covid-19 elimination strategy and harsh lockdowns which divided the nation while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern enjoyed global adoration from the mainstream media.
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The fatuous conceit of Ardern and so many other idiots in power was that they could just “freeze” a national economy at will, flicking it on and off with the switch of the state. While they were doling out “Covid payments” to the dimwits in the laptop class, it looked like a leftist’s UBI wet dream come true.
Then the old truism about other people’s money hit home with a vengeance.
Not that Ardern and co. will admit it.
Associate Housing Minister Marama Davidson said the rise in numbers was partially due to better reporting of the numbers.
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Pay no attention to all those homeless people. If you ignore them, they’ll just go away.