Robbing the Blind man’s’ Contribution Box.
Jeanette Fitzsimons MP NZ.
New Zealand Parliament still asleep as the wide awake MP waves goodbye.
To Quote in part the Valedictory Speech Jeanette Fitzsimons MP
“But the poor have always been an excuse for policies designed mainly to benefit the rich. The central message I came here with 13 years ago is that we need to find better ways of measuring our economic success and that the aim should be a better economy not a bigger one. An economy based on respect for people and for nature, not on dog-eats-dog competitiveness. The futility of our current measures is shown by the Brash report on Closing the Income Gap with Australia. They have bigger houses (so more housework) more cars per person (so higher greenhouse gases), more than one cell phone each, and drink more alcohol (so more drunkenness and violence) and so we must catch up. What a goal to aim for.
Yet I have to say, with great sadness, that the big picture has not changed much. This place, on which we pin such hopes as the pinnacle of democracy, has proved itself incapable of responding to the crisis that threatens to overwhelm us. As an institution it is asleep; often in denial; often preoccupied with trivia. When my grandchildren Jasper and Isabella, here in the gallery today, are struggling to bring up their children in thirty years time amid the storms and instability of a changing climate, with little oil left (and that being unaffordable), what will they think of us at the turn of this Millennium? What will they think of a parliament more preoccupied with its own privileges than with the good of humanity? A parliament that spent far more passion and energy on where Bill English parks his car than on where we will get the oil to run it; or on measures to reduce our climate emissions, the pollution of our waterways, the protection of our unique ecosystems and species from extinction? What will they think of governments who had all the information presented to them, who could not claim not to know, but who chose to do nothing? “
End Quote.
Parliaments National Party on pending Tax reform follows a path that demonstrates the feet of mice, not of men/woman of courage, no Lion as the head, allowing the opportunity of New Zealand across all sectors in the country rise to its feet and lead the world in,conservation, industry, solar, housing, employment.
When a man can own four houses and manipulate the fiscal parameters where he pays no tax an example of how many of the top echelons behave in NZ.
No-body minds one being rich, being rich impoverishing the country’s ordinary people ( middle income families and the low income families) many lining up at the food banks , the lip service to a privileged few, a tax package to sustain their greed is criminal and a disgrace to New Zealand.
To propose 15 % gst. Expressing to those on benefits, an increase in the benefit a rise would match. A classic saying in New Zealand is “ Yeah right” sums it up, as rents,food, power,essentials to the basics of life would as well. Receive one lot of rise in ones benefit and pay 10 fold more to live.
With an MP for Social Development Hon. Paula Bennett whose background is to be admired seems to have a mind set in the back rooms of history: instead of facing the reality of today in her drive for employment… where are the jobs… they are not there. Her constraints promotes a continuing path of a dysfunctional organization telling the front people to comply and tie their hands behind their backs fiscally starving a population of the most poor, vulnerable, special needs and sick.
Not unlike the behaviour of one robbing the blind man’s’ contribution box.
The ordinary New Zealanders at the coal face with pick and shovel of life hard at work whilst Parliament stays tucked up in bed, with the teddy bear and sucking thumbs in their mouth fast asleep.
Domestic violence, crime when people are desperate what is parliaments’ expectation?
Goodbye Jeanette Fitzsimons, we will miss your suitcase of life packed with values and tools at a time New Zealand really requires those values and tools, to forge a sustainable and positive future.
