What jobs are people supposed to get? Every industry is crying out for workers!
Problem is, as @Rizzah pointed out since the Sickness benefit was abolished we now have cancer patients, schizophrenics, legally blind and every other disability making up part of the Jobseekers benefit numbers, and no way to find out what percentage of the total they are. It does seem like those people are being lumped in with work shy bludgers in the policy rollout, don't you think?
Ah, so are those in the health condition/disability category deemed not ready for work? Are they among the quoted 13 years on welfare?Benefit Fact Sheets - Ministry of Social Development
Benefit fact sheets showing trends in benefit receipt by breaking down benefit sub-categories, gender, age groups, ethnicity, duration, children and incapacity.www.msd.govt.nz
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National are relying on the ignorance of their support base - a finance expert on RNZ yesterday said that they had the numbers before the election and have either a) not read them, b) not understood them, or c) are just making shit up in order to justify slashing public services and penalizing pensioners, beneficiaries and the working man.Interestingly on 25 Jan 2024, Treasury figures affirmed that the National Coalition government "inherited finances in better shape than expected."
But it was noted: The figures do not reflect the effect of any decisions by the new government, which had just just been formed at the end of November.
- The budget deficit for the five months ended November was $2.8 billion, about $1.1b lower than forecast in the half-year financial update (HYEFU).
- Tax revenue was $49.1b, more than half a billion dollars above forecast because of higher provisional and income tax, and tobacco, alcohol, and fuel duties.
- The September quarter labour market statistics showed lower employment levels but that average hourly earnings increased
- Crown revenue was further lifted by an increase in interest earnings by the Reserve Bank.
- Expenses were $300 million below forecast at $56.8b, reflecting marginally lower spending on community housing and welfare payments, which Treasury said was largely a matter of timing.
- Net debt was $83.9b, $1.8b below forecast, and equating to 20.9 percent of the value of the economy, reflecting gains on investments held by the NZ Superannuation Fund and ACC.
Budget deficit lower than forecast, Treasury figures show
The new government inherited finances in better shape than expected, according to latest Treasury figures.www.rnz.co.nz
Scottish Water has, for statistics purposes, divided Scotland into 4 regions: North, South, East and West. Because the majority of the population live within the central belt (Edinburgh and Glasgow) and are spread between the South and East. Because of the greater density, Scottish Water got more "bang for it's buck" spending money there. In fact, when Scottish Water was first established, they estimated that it would cost twice as much to deliver good services in terms of water quality, water supply and disposal, flood control and waterway improvements to small towns and rural areas as over the urban areas. They have since admitted they got that very wrong.... it costs 60 times the amount to provide the same service to rural and towns as it does to the big cities because the densities are less and the networks for supplying are much greater.
I got four in one sitting before heading to India in the early '90's.... and that felt like 2 too many. Needles don't worry me but, shit, seven's one hell of a lot!!!
Sounds seriousMan, I hope Efeso's alright.....
Green MP Efeso Collins dies after collapsing at Auckland event
The Green MP was taking part in ChildFund Water Run.www.nzherald.co.nz
One News are reporting Efeso has passed away.
You don't think that you can take an idea and tweak it to remove some of the inequalities as you have pointed out?Scottish Water has, for statistics purposes, divided Scotland into 4 regions: North, South, East and West. Because the majority of the population live within the central belt (Edinburgh and Glasgow) and are spread between the South and East. Because of the greater density, Scottish Water got more "bang for it's buck" spending money there. In fact, when Scottish Water was first established, they estimated that it would cost twice as much to deliver good services in terms of water quality, water supply and disposal, flood control and waterway improvements to small towns and rural areas as over the urban areas. They have since admitted they got that very wrong.... it costs 60 times the amount to provide the same service to rural and towns as it does to the big cities because the densities are less and the networks for supplying are much greater.
That means that an upgraded water treatment system with a cost of £50,000,000 to service 300,000 households in Glasgow would cost £3,000,000,000 in rural Scotland to service the same number of houses because a larger number of water treatment plants would need to be upgraded to fix the supply to 300,000 households in small towns and rural communities.
That changed in 2017 when a winter storm quick froze water supply pipes and then rapidly thawed cause 15 major water supply pipe failures in the North and East of Scotland. BUT, because of the money put into the system in the East, there was only two failures there even though the storm had a greater impact there than in the North, where the infrastructure failed because of lack of investment compared to the East. Scottish Water has now pumped more money into the North to not just repair what was damaged but to improve the overall system. That's meant that now, North Scotland has an estimated water leakage from the supply system of 38% while West Scotland, with a comparable population and density but without the investment in the supply system, has a water leakage percentage of 53%.
More money spent has also led to better outcomes in terms of complaints to Scottish Water over the quality of the water supplied and this is also reflected in the testing results conducted by Scottish Water and reported to the Drinking Water Quality Regulator. Take a look at the report below and you'll find that the supply systems that reported issues were in lower population areas that received less funding. In fact, although again the density and population of West and North Scotland are similar, under investment in the infrastructure in West Scotland meant there was twice as many complaints there about water quality and twice as many failed tests than in North Scotland.
One of the ways Scottish Water plans on improving the water quality in the rivers and waterways is called the Improving Urban Waterways Roadmap. It is designed to eliminate throughout the entire country places where both waste and stormwater enter a river or waterway through a single pipe called a combined sewer overflows (CSOs) poluting that watercourse. The Roadmap has identified over 3,600 CSOs that will need to be removed. So far, 276 have had work commenced on them.... only one of those is located in West Scotland (in Mallaig, Highland) and none are in North Scotland. The other 275 are all located in the heavliy populated central belt. Again, this shows Scottish Water prioritising cities over rural and small towns.
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www.scottishwater.co.uk
But, most damning of all that Scottish Water continues to invest more in the major cities than in the rural and small towns is the screenshot below. It shows the number of projects which Scottish Water are currently investing in.... note the lack of investment in the less populated, but more expensive, areas.....
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Lool. I ain’t trying to say too much on that for several reasons. BUT…
Say no more.Lool. I ain’t trying to say too much on that for several reasons. BUT…
It was an open secret especially in country annndddd he was hung out to dry, but only because it needed to be closed up. I mean I wonder where BRS’s old CO is now?
