for those who don’t know him…farrar is a widely-read rightwing-blogger…
he is also the one who does much of the polling/focus-groups for national..(an ‘insider’..by any measure…)
..and he worked in shipleys’ office when she was prime minister..
and on his blog..has spoken with pride of ..at that time..urging shipley to cut more ..! more…!….during the ‘welfare-reforms’ of that government..
(that which sewed the seeds of the social-whirlwind/underclass pay-out we are now reaping/’earning’…)
..the beginning of this black-campaign from farrar is not unexpected…as bennet is now trying to sell this package…
..and farrar is..if nothing..always in sync…
..the problem for farrar…is that he ‘jumped-the-shark’ on this welfare-issue…some time back..
..when he published on his blog…a post from a ‘guest-columnist’…a (supposed) benificiary/sole-parent…
where this ‘benificiary’ wrote of scenarios of/in her life…
..the most incendiary for his frothing/foaming rightwing readership/audience…being..
of her sitting on her lawn with her other sole-parent mates..drinking beer…waiting for the pizzas to arrive…(the ‘good life’)
..and/while laughing at her neighbours …as they drove off to work…for being such mugs..
..(his ‘bubbly’ audience..reacted to this ‘revelation’ as expected/on cue…)
(and…just to add to the texture/colouring of this exercise…the fake-benificiary was maori….Tara Te Heke was the (eponymous) name chosen…)
this piece of vile/marginalising black-propaganda stands alongside the worst of the yellow-peril/anti-chinese-pamphlets…
..from back in those days of racist-shame…
(..but this is 2010…eh..?..you’d think ‘fomenting’ such hatred/prejudice as this..wd be against the/some law..eh..?..)
..and the ultimate irony in all this..is that farrar is using the same tactics as goebbels did against the jews…
(dissembling/lies/half-truths/’fake-profiles’…all designed to marginalise the targets…
…and all to inflame prejudices/hatreds/political-action against them…)
..yet farrar himself is european-jewish…(go figure..!..eh..?..)..and currently on holiday in austria/vienna…(!)
(quick..!..oxygen..!..i’m coming down with irony-overload..!..)
..farrars’ fake-benificiary was a nadir in the nz blogworld….(and his publishing career..)
…and totally destroyed any impartiality/credibility he may now claim to have on this issue…
..so we can expect nothing more from farrrar..
..except more of the same…
..and funnily enough..the most sense/clarity i have seen/heard on this issue came from rightwinger gareth morgan…(on national radio…)
who (having read the full report..rare amongst commenters on it/other experts..)
…expressed his disdain at how the terms of this inquiry had been orchestrated/fixed by key/national…
..in that the committee were proscribed from examining the two basic facts/components of the whole social welfare issue….
…namely…’is the level of payment sufficient to live on?’..
..and … about the onerous/crippling rates of clawback on any part-time-work monies..
(i.e..everything over $100pw faces ..after tax..an 85% payback to social welfare…
..plus..if a sole-parent lives in a state house…they face the double-whammy of the 85% clawback….plus their rent rising..)
these are some of the main bars on the/any poverty-trap….eh..?
and (‘funnily’..again..)..morgan was in sync with the greens…(!)…
..calling for a basic guaranteed income/livable wage for all…and then take it from there…
..(morgan arguing the obvious benefits/lower-overheads/ease of administration/fairness .. of such a ‘real reform’..)
i have linked you to the start of the campaign from/by farrar…
…and on health/hygiene/’splash’-grounds…
..i wd advise donning full-body protection…
..before entering the fetid-swamp that is kiwiblog..(especially the comments-threads..)
..eh..?..
go to source/story>>>Armstrong on Welfare Reform | Kiwiblog
