Parliamentarian Greed and Excuses
The books opened with a public view of the ‘expense account’ of New Zealand parliamentarians.
Ordinary New Zealanders go to work with the expectation the costs of travel, rent, food and clothing and other essentials for life come out of what one earns.
Parliamentarians choose to be elected, choose to step into the job, however equally from the great salary they earn, one would expect that they pay for the rent of any apartment, travel, food and any other expenses. The expenses that are in the National interest are acceptable the rest is a disgrace. With all the travel and staying in hotels etc not much time to do any real work.
Parliamentarians having to pay for items out of what they earn, that would bring them into line of pondering with more thought of choosing essential related causes and work harder to do the job. Also perhaps bring in people with earnest that really can drive New Zealand, lifting the country to become the envy of the world.
When a New Zealander does an honest forty hours a week work on the ‘minimum wage’ earning $13.00 per hour. Rent at $150 per week, power, food, car expenses to get to work, there is nothing left. In fact people border on starvation as wages are so low.
The MP’s and back- benchers have excuse after excuse, on a gravy train for the lazy lack luster government bogged down on petty arguments, irrelevant issues instead of doing the job listening to the people and promoting the health, wealth and betterment of the working environment for all New Zealanders.
Much of the wasted money could lift and fund innovative people on the ground at the coal face, in agriculture, science, and many other fields and wages be lifted that a person can live a reasonable quality of life.
Plus the welfare system needs an overhaul, raise the income for the special needs people, the disabled and those with mental health problems who struggle to achieve just to live. Just to live in the community a reasonable quality of life.
