Parents need to be held accountable but so do politicians and their agents managing the nation

The government sadly must take a hard line on beneficiaries given so many are just plain lazy in every sense. I grew up in Rotorua and saw the same problems of lazy no hoper parents not looking after their kids re food-clothing-guidance/mentoring-manors-emotional assistance etc.

Now that was from the mid 1960's and since then Maori agencies/Waitangi redress have had billions of dollars poured into them with very little to show for it apart from certain senior Maori now driving around in new flash cars and hanging out at plush offices where nothing really gets done.

Ordinary Maori require jobs- real jobs and not just be given weekly benefits which too many waste on junk food-smokes-booze-gambling-drugs- while their kids suffer...and so the cycle continues.

An elderly friend once said back in the 1930's to his work friends that welfare would turn NZ into a bludger nation and he was correct. NZ is now the 3rd most indebted nation in the OECD and currently borrows $300-400m every week to keep the nation going. This must stop.

But at the same time the government must remove red tape that is stopping new business from operating. I read a story about a Maori lady operating a small fish and chip business using fish she had caught and it was as if she had committed a brutal act- where as all she was trying to do was earn an income.

I saw how hopeless NZ is re government 1st hand re Matakana litigation and last year I spent 3 months researching and filming a documentary about the problems we face as a nation.

Not only do parents need to be held accountable but so do politicians and their agents managing the nation.