Who Gives a Fuck About the Harbour Bridge

A report released today revealed that awful poor parents aren't giving enough money to their children, therefore creating child poverty. South Auckland children aren't bought presents for their birthday, haven't gone over the harbour bridge, and sometimes aren't provided lunch. Obivously this is their parents fault, and we need to change these parents so they start providing a better experience for their kids.

ARGH - really don't listen Linda Clark on this she's at her worst.

The way poor parents were blamed for not providing their kids with the stuff they can't afford was appalling, but there was also a strong current of racism throughout the Linda Clark interview. The principals of local schools were saying it was a problem that South Auckland kids never left their communities to venture into the rest of the world, that the community was self-sufficient. Someone said that you could live your life in South Auckland and believe that New Zealand was a polynesian country, as if this was a problem.

Did anyone ask North Harbour kids if they'd ever been to South Auckland?

Just to be totally clear the cause of child poverty is lack of money in families. The cause of families not having enough money is capitalism. Capitalism is bad, so we should try and end it. In the meantime we should get more money to people - we could start by extending the working for families package to beneficiaries.