well, whatever we think of Jacinda Ardern -------- only the lobotomy patients can argue against this one
" “If you have hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive, that’s a blatant failure. What else could you describe it as?”
"New Zealand prime-minister-elect Jacinda Ardern has described capitalism as a “blatant failure” in the country, nominating poverty and homelessness as her priorities when she takes office.
Speaking in her first sit-down interview, on TV3’s The Nation, Ms Ardern said New Zealanders were not feeling the benefits of prosperity. Asked if capitalism had failed New Zealanders on low incomes, Ms Ardern was blunt: “If you have hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive, that’s a blatant failure. What else could you describe it as?”
“When you have a market economy, it all comes down to whether or not you acknowledge where the market has failed and where intervention is required. Has it failed our people in recent times? Yes.
“Wages are not keeping up with inflation (and) and how can you claim you’ve been successful when you have growth at roughly 3 per cent, but you have the worst homelessness in the developed world?”
Capitalism is a "blatant failure" when it comes to housing the poor, Jacinda Ardern has told @TheNationNZhttps://t.co/K6cGfc3nmE#nationnz
— Newshub (@NewshubNZ) October 20, 2017
Real measures that the public can rate the government on are important, Ms Ardern said, citing improved waterways, child poverty, homelessness and building 10,000 new homes every year to judge them on.
Ms Ardern said the biggest difference between National and the incoming coalition government would be change, vowing the Labour-NZ First-Greens coalition would be active and “won’t leave anything to chance”.
She also said there would be compromise on Labour’s desire for the minimum wage to be raised to $16.50 and New Zealand’s First to have it at $20.
“We have common ground and you will see change in this area.” Ms Ardern said despite there being three parties in a coalition, things have come a long way since MMP began in 1996, and there was confidence this would be an “effective and efficient” government."
whatever we think of her ----------- if she keeps making statements like this which are irrefutable - well, lets say - it's just going to get more and more interesting.
