On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:30:50 +1300, Rich80105 <
Rich80105@hotmail.com>
wrote:
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024 20:59:35 +1300, Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid>
wrote:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350179555/homeless-woman-breaking-point-living-car-two-dogs?lid=fd0tmwu12i8c&utm_source=editorial%2Bnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Two%2BMinutes%2BOf%2BStuff&utm_content=email%2Blink
A tragic story but one I can match with a different outcome.
A friend of mine was once a reasonably wealthy retired builder with a
home, boat and 2nd wife. Said wife as diagnosed with cancer. They >>separated 5 years after the diagnosis for reasons I am yet to
establish but for 7 years (including 2 years after separation) he paid
for drugs that promised and delivered some relief (but never a cure)
for her. He sold his house, boat and business to fund the drugs. That >>meant that at 72 he had to live in rental accommodation, so the pets
had to be re homed and this was done. Today he lives as always with a >>house inspection business to augment his super. He still has cancer
drug debt to repay 7 years after his 2nd wife died. He views his life
now as an unavoidable consequence of fate that he had no control over.
He and I meet twice a week for a drink or two and I learned early on
never to buy him a round.
So the pets have to go. Contact an animal rescue group - they are not
hard to find on Facebook - and move on.
Our drinking venue is dog-friendly - so my friend has had to adapt to >>meeting the dog he used to own regularly. I am sure this caused >>significant grief at first but he has got over eventually with the
help of the new owners (who were aware of his circumstances).
So those dos have to go, and moving them on is ultimately best for
those dogs. Face up to it. Its bloody tough but all 3 of you will
move on to ultimately better lives.
Good advice, Crash. It is a direct result of the "run public health
down" policies of previous National-led Governments, not ramped up a
bit with "make houses and rents unaffordable" from the current
government. Sometimes individuals have to understand that they have
lost and will not get help; they have to cut what they can to have any
life at all; and with the cutting of benefits we can expect more to be
in this situation.
As usual Rich you have politicised a thread that was not political.
You have chosen a thread that covers personal tragedy to spout
political rhetoric.
You support a political party that in the last 6 years has skillfully
managed the economy by spending much more to deliver much less. This
is not just in Health. Take a look at Health spending over the last 6
years and then take a look at performance (hint: every metric has got
worse). Don't bother rolling out that old Covid rhetoric again
because the same trends would have occurred without that. Labour had
an absolute majority in Parliament for 3 years and was too consumed
with new co-governance structures (itself an unannounced policy) to
use that majority wisely. Your credibility in criticising National on
a scale of 1-10 is zero.
When you acknowledge the total failure of the last 3 years, and the
partial failure of the previous 3 years, I might - just might - begin
to take your political rhetoric seriously.
Because I know what your likely response is, I do not support current
National economic policies. Now is not the time to reduce the tax
revenue and reduced Government spending should be specifically
targeted at those government departments where bloat is most apparent
rather than an across-the-board reduction. Because of the damage done
by Labour to our Health system, carefully-targeted increased spending
would be OK.
--
Crash McBash
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)