Rather than pushing all the invalids beneficiaries onto the sickness benefit why not make them all into C.E.O.s?

The positions are basically idential. It would solve all the countries financial problems, all that wealth being generated!

Most beneficiarie would of course require removal of the empathy centres of their brains.

I am on an Invalids Benefit and certainly not by choice and would give anything to be able to hold down a full time job. Being on sickness or invalids benefit does have a stigma attached to it and is certainly not the lifestyle I want. Also competition for jobs is fierce and I cannot compete with another applicants and an employer will take on a person without problems over one who has problems. Its just logical!

Brilliant ... finally, hearing news of an NZ PM trying to wean people of benefits. Goodness that will be a shock..Im going to have a laugh about it with all the hard working kiwis who got sick of funding that luxury previously...and moved to Aust!

Here's a novel idea...How about coupling the increase in GST with actual reductions in publicly funded expendatures? Don't take tax-payer's money then turn right around and give a portion back in "working for families" for example. Almost 400,000 households receive this benifit. That is immoral. Let us keep more of our hard earned money in the first place and we won't to be dependents!

trevor #12 - This is all aimed at long-term beneficiaries, what does that have people who've gone on the benefit recently ? Try thinking before you comment and you might have a chance of making sense.

Deb #13 - hah back injuries, neighbour has been on sickness benefit for several years but has no trouble operating his boat trailer. Come to think of it, how do you operate a boat with a bad back ?

The crime and suicide rates will go through the roof. I think John will suffer dearly in popularity eventually if he doesn't stop secretly selling off everything to these business friends of his. You can only fool the masses until they SEE the effects.

deborah thompson#13 i have a chonic long term back injury and work part time and i can tell you no passing of any legislation by the government is going to change by back.

I am so sick of hearing people like you spew your garbage.

Government will pour millions of dollars in to the new Whanau Ora policy, which would devolve welfare spending to non-Government agencies

What? Please someone explain how running two agencies are going to help or have I got it wrong and they are going to close winz down and just have this new one?

I'm confused. Can some shed any light on this for me. Don't like to comment on something I don't quite understand.

One of the biggest group of benefit receipients is the Ministers and MPs. J Key has been labelled as a man of talks only who lacks action since he tipepd Helen Clark out in Nov 2008, now he unleashes his bites! Yes, benefits will be culled, government charges will go up, GST and petrol taxes will go up and new and innovative taxes will come our way. Perhaps this is the key path to catching up with Australia!