Can we start in Otaki?

Laws is a joke. At least he SHOULD be. But the more I read, the more disgusted I am with the comments in thoughtless support of his latest narcissistic vomit.

But I'm relieved to see people presenting FIRST-HAND FACTS about what it REALLY means to be raised by an 'underclass' family. I was born into the same 'welfare dependent' herd that Mr Laws wants sterilised. But my international career working with a 'class' of people Mr Laws could only hope to mow lawns for, is further living proof of how shallow and WRONG his opinions really are.

All my time overseas as a proud Kiwi, talking up our tolerance and compassion, and I come home to hear this kind of redneck drivel FROM A MAYOR. I'm ashamed of what we've apparently become. More than ever, we sound like a bunch of Aussies caught in the Pauline Hanson era.

Moving beyond the socio-economic limitations forced on you by tiny-minded bigots like Michael Laws, only takes BELIEF.

If Mr Laws really wants to solve the parental abuse issue, he might get better results by using his big mouth to convince kids that the outside world believes in their dreams - and that they should NEVER tolerate the type of abusive oppression he spreads.

Rather than sterilization there are temporary birth shots you can receive. These last for about 3 months and could be a condition of receiving welfare. It is immoral that others should be forced to pay for peoples children when they are already receiving a benefit.

Everyone should just take a breath for a moment and look at this idea with an open mind. I think Michael Laws' idea has merit and that he is very brave to come out with this statement in today's family-focussed society. Yes, children are valuable, blah, blah, blah... we've heard that many times and we are programmed to believe it. The reality is that we (the whole World) are having more babies than the planet can sustain and surely we want quality, not quantity when it comes to use of (limited) resources. Get out of your idealistic, religious worlds and join reality! Children are not a 'miracle', or a 'blessing'. There are too many people on the planet and no amount of environmentally friendly living is going to change that fact. Limit the number of children per person. Parenting licence perhaps? Some people should not be parents, full stop!

Law's idea is one of his most alarming yet. What he is proposing can only increase divisions and will only further stigmatise those people who are already disadvantaged.

You do not need to be a "bleeding heart liberal" to object to this revolting and heinous proposal. Any sense of compassion towards others should be enough to turn one away from the rancour of this type of festering politics.

Michael Laws is a fascist - either that or he is blindly stupid. It is the policy of the financial elite, to hoard wealth and leave just enough scraps on the table to leave the rest of us fighting one another for the spoils, that is the underlying cause behind much of misery we see among the so-called 'underclass'. If we stopped fighting one another for those table scraps, and woke up to the reality that the upperclass are herding us into the fight, then maybe - just maybe, we'd unite against these controlling fascists to bring about change for better for all, not just for the ruling elite. We're all in this together.

Classic Michael Laws. Once again he's catapulted himself into the spotlight, making some outlandish and abhorent statement on the 'underclass'. Whats more shocking are some of the comments on here and the complete idiocy of the New Zealand public to actually agree with him - Whatever your political leaning may be - even posing a thinly veiled reference to eugenics is absolutely disgusting. I'd go as far to say he uses victims of child abuse as a platform to push his own narcisstic agenda.

For Michael Laws to suggest this is an absolutely ridiculous even if this was an initial reaction out of anger. For a man who perpetuates himself as a fair and just leader of a city within a DEMOCRATIC nation to say that some of us are not his equals and should have our natural and fundamental right of having offspring is ludacrous. Also, what is the difference between a brain surgeon and say a cleaner. Both of them benefit society in their own ways, and both are needed in a society. Without either one of them, the functioning of society would go haywire. We are all equals Mr Laws and you better believe it because a nation as great as ours certainly do not need an attitude like yours.

Regardless of how well people do out of less than perfect situations, If it was offered as an option with $10k, what's the harm? In the end it's the individuals choice.

Mr Laws, its about time you move along. Getting sick of your rash comments about children in NZ. If they bug you that much move to Mars so the rest of us dont need to put up with you!