Faux Poverty - The Poverty Junkie

Labour are crying over not being invited to the table for the Ministerial Committee set up to look yet again at why there is "child poverty".

Jacinda "Kim Kardashian" Ardern, a veteran of a short working holiday in a New York soup kitchen because she couldn't get a work permit in the USA as she had no skill they needed in a hurry, dedicated her first press release as Labour Welfare Spokesperson, to crying why she isn't in on the committee.

The simple answer is Tariana Turia is more important than she and her Labour Party mates are. Who had nine years to call a Committee on the subject.

All children are of course poor so right away framing of the debate is wrong. Children do not own anything. It is their parents who are responsible for the child. The parents are the ones having children into poverty. Too many children creates poverty because children are expensive. Having another child when you already have five does not assist an already hopeless situation.

Poverty debates are flawed to start with in New Zealand. And it can be represented as such. If Labour want to start this fight instead of backing workers who earn $91,000 per annum on a sexist Unionised wharf, those of us on the right will fight them. And we will be joined by those non-traditional political parties supportive of the right like the Maori Party who in Whanau Ora, have at least come up with some solution, albeit one that will lead to more welfare fraud. At least they have more thoughts than Labour's = more money, more bureaucrats, bottomless pit with no accountability.

Politicians wishing to score points from wallowing in this concept of faux poverty based on worst case scenarios such as the tragic tale of Blanketman and generalizations based around a no-fault no responsibility welfare state, now have a new name.

Poverty Junkies.

They mainline on tales of poverty, they get off on tales of poverty, they profit on tales of poverty. Quite simply they cannot exist without poverty.