SOLO-NZ Press Release: John Key's John Cleese Welfare Policy — Plop! "Get That Would You, Deidre?"

August 11, 2008

National's benefits policy just announced by leader Neville Key is another prize example of why liberty-lovers call it the National Socialist Party, says SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.

"The policy gutlessly fails to challenge the cannibalistic premise that the needs of some are a compulsory claim on the earnings of others. Key in fact reaffirms this premise when he says he has a 'personal commitment' to the welfare state. It should be remembered that what he's talking about is not compassion but coercion — for if it be true, as he says, that 'we’re a compassionate and fair people whose instinct is to give a person a helping hand when they need it,' why is it necessary to force people to act on this 'instinct' at the point of a government gun?

"Key notes, correctly, that 'people who receive a benefit are able to do so only because other people are going to work every day, earning a wage, and paying taxes. And, in many cases, these are people who are themselves, especially in the current economic climate, far from well off' — while offering a policy that will carry right on with the injustice of such parasitism!

“Neville is proposing to require Domestic Purposes Benefit recipients to work a minimum of 15 hours a week once their youngest children reach the age of six. A sillier way of guaranteeing that they’ll just go on breeding at taxpayer expense so that there’s always a youngest under six is difficult to imagine. The whole nation will be a gigantic reprise of the famous scene from Monty Python’s Meaning of Life: Plop! 'Get that, would you, Deidre?'

"This particular item of cannibalism, the DPB, has an instructive history. Introduced by the Kirk Socialist Government in 1974, it was claimed initially by just a few hundred leeches. Now the figure is around 100,000. Aside from the taxpayer, the victims here are the children brought into this life solely as meal-tickets and often having the life beaten out of them again by the scum who so bred them without wanting them. National should have nipped this obscenity in the bud when they were re-elected in 1975, but, as always, they lacked the courage.

"Neville Key's plan, and his other proposals for getting beneficiaries into the work force, repairing as they do to ludicrous 'Personal Development and Employment Plans' drawn up by unemployable bureaucrats, amount to a more costly, convoluted version of the status quo. Instead of such toothless temporising, National should simply serve notice that after a certain time, the offending benefits will cease, cannibalism will no longer be a career option, the productive will no longer be taxed to the eyeballs to subsidise it, and charity will be left to the private, uncoerced discretion of the willing," Perigo concludes.

Lindsay Perigo 021 255 8715 editor@freeradical.co.nz

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