Poster Child For What Is Wrong

So very much is wrong here....

"I couldn't believe it but I sort of had a feeling, though. I used to look at women with twins and think you are so lucky - now I have three sets," she said.

Lucky? No "lucky" is all those good women who medically cannot have children or find it difficult to conceive with a partner, having a child. That is lucky. This woman is just a future DPB breeding machine. Having her first lot 10 years ago at age 21, the next lot 2 years ago at age 29. The only thing this woman is good at is breeding.

Coping with the sets is not easy. She is on a sickness benefit and her partner of nine years, Wiremu Kokiri, is a hands-on dad while he looks for work.

Hmm...."coping" denotes there was no choice in the matter. The first set of children are 10 and she's been with Wiremu for nine. Closing one's legs or the use of contraception is always a choice. Especially when her hyper-fertility has been proven.

The couple are hoping Housing New Zealand will find them a bigger house, but they are not in the top priority queue.

Hoping? This is all this couple will ever do. Hope. Hope that the taxpayer will keep funding their lifestyle. Hope that their kids will be looked after by the State and taxpayers because they sure as hell cannot.

"We are on a low income so we live on the basics. I am on the sickness benefit for my fibromyalgia [muscle and joint pain which leads to weakness in joints]. I have to have cortisone injections but I still get numb fingers and pins and needles. I am on the waiting list to get an operation," she said.

No, you are not on a "low income". You have NO income and it sounds like neither of you have had any income for a long time. Net beneficiaries for life this couple. Any income they have is 100% reliant on the taxpayer.

This is precisely why being a mother cannot be compared to a job in the workforce. This woman now has six children that she is enjoying playing mother to. Giving her the only purpose in her life. An activity that takes up so much energy and stress, yes. Her "fibromyalgia" allows her to be a mother to three sets of twins but she can't get off her arse and get a job. And why would she? Fibromyalgia is basically a condition that doesn't cure itself but a tag given when the medics haven't a clue what's actually wrong with you. I have been diagnosed with it at University, as did many contemporaries of mine who spent hours studying hunched over a desk. It was the "in" diagnosis at the time. The issue being that you have to ignore the diagnosis, harden the fuck up and deal with it. Having six children would hardly help controlling the symptoms if you actually had the condition. The cause of this woman's fibromyalgia may be long hours stuck in one position watching daytime television.

Usually astute tabloid journalist Carolyne Meng-Yee did not ask or investigate the one thing everyone should be asking, how much money is the taxpayer spending on these eight net beneficiaries for life?

So this is:

- sickness benefit
- "partner" who doesn't work
- on a wait list at housing NZ for an even larger house
- on a wait list in the public health system for an operation for a questionable illness
- a high user of the community card and GP system

Any system that allows such a demographic to breed, and then turns around and encourages them to keep having children over a period of a decade that they cannot afford, really deserves the outcome it gets. More welfarism.

The fact of the matter is that this couple are better not to work in the current system. They would have to have an income they will never receive while working to actually "earn" more than they are being given by the taxpayer for popping out more children. Minger claims that the Treena is on a sickness benefit but that contradicts earlier media reports that before the babies were born she was planning to go back to work as a "caregiver". I back Minger's reporting. If this woman is medically unfit to work looking after someone else and be compensated with a sickness benefit then how the hell can she look after six children?

These children are born into welfare. Children with stuff all hope of doing any better than their parents. With the current welfare system there is no other thing for the poor taxpayer to do but chalk up the fact that they will be slaving their guts out to pay for the lives of the SFNS (silly first name syndromed) family from hell:

Sharaz & Shaqiel
Daklan & Darius
Kramer & Kelly

I can't see how the New Zealand taxpayer will ever get a return from this family. The country would be better off writing them a cheque for one's years welfare as a sort of redundancy (non-returnable passage on the passport) and shipping them permanently to a country that can afford to keep them - Australia.

Both Labour and National policies have already written this family off because it makes it nearly impossible with the "carrot" system in place that this family will ever get off welfare. It's time for some "stick" to balance the "hug a benny" policies of the past and try a new approach. Making families like this comply with a policy of affordability in their family planning.