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| Thread ID: 100595 | 2009-06-13 09:29:00 | Poverty in NZ | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 781994 | 2009-06-14 02:00:00 | Is there poverty and hunger in NZ? Ken Pctek say yes, but I'm inclined to think...well.....not really. It depends a lot on the standards for comparison. Compared to today in NZ, then we lived in poverty and deprivation when I was a kid during the war, but at the time we didn't think so. We had just one cold water tap over a stone sink next to the back door, no hot water unless it was heated on the gas stove, mostly washed in cold water, summer and winter. There was a range with a small open fire between ovens, but with wartime coal rationing it did not provide much heat. A glass of water would freeze in the bedroom during winter. Food was rationed, unbelievable small amounts, there would be no obesity in NZ if everyone was on war time rations and that is a fact. Everything was make do and mend....handme downs.....collars 'turned' when worn out, cardboard stuffed into shoes until Dad could get around to mending them.......... Those were the good old days........:banana |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 781995 | 2009-06-14 03:29:00 | Stricken by poverty by choice, by eating takeaways, donating money to church, smoking, drinking and giving money to rellies then claiming poor makes me sick. Ya cant be poverty stricken and fat the same time it does not compute. |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 781996 | 2009-06-14 04:34:00 | Plenty of poverty in NZ. If Poverty is defined as fed, housed, educated, clothed, and provided with medical needs. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 781997 | 2009-06-14 05:50:00 | If Poverty is defined as fed, housed, educated, clothed, and provided with medical needs. Well there isn't really any such thing as free education. Nor medical. Housed? Well there are people living in small pokey, dmap shitty houses and barely able to buy the necessities. Then again, breeding contributes to a lot of the poverty. And yes, depends how you define it. Some people here consider us either poor (or weird) because we don't have an LCD TV or a stereo or HT and I don't have a cellphone or buy clothes all the time or whatever............ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 781998 | 2009-06-14 06:21:00 | Well there isn't really any such thing as free education. Nor medical. Housed? Well there are people living in small pokey, map shitty houses and barely able to buy the necessities. People should feel forever in debt if they are provided with the means for a house no matter how small it is, if in return all they have to do is breath. And no one, no matter how little money they have, misses out on education or medical care in NZ....unless the parents are scum. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 781999 | 2009-06-14 06:26:00 | by eating takeaways, donating money to church, smoking, drinking and giving money to rellies You forgot betting on everything at the local TAB. |
stormdragon (6013) | ||
| 782000 | 2009-06-14 09:09:00 | Well there isn't really any such thing as free education. Nor medical. Housed? Well there are people living in small pokey, dmap shitty houses and barely able to buy the necessities. Then again, breeding contributes to a lot of the poverty. And yes, depends how you define it. Some people here consider us either poor (or weird) because we don't have an LCD TV or HT Same here crappy old warehouse TV, can't get HD in Nelson so why change, no home theatre just a cheap freeview box with a USB port on it that will play .avi format stuff or MP3's. Before I met SMBO i didn't even have a TV. Sky called round to offer me a deal and I asked them if it came with the TV as I didn't have one, he didn't bother trying to give me the hard sell after I showed him the blank space in my house where a TV would normally be. |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 782001 | 2009-06-14 14:17:00 | Heaps of homeless here in Hamilton, well Id say dozens anyway, see them on way to work when I start the midnight shifts, sifting through the garbage for food, sleeping under the doorwells and bus shelters. Is that poverty or is that hardship? Ive talked to a couple, they seem half mad, lights on but noone home. Eitherway I didnt think Id see that stuff in NZ when I was younger. |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 782002 | 2009-06-14 20:57:00 | Is that poverty or is that hardship? Ive talked to a couple, they seem half mad, lights on but noone home. thats negligence. When you were a kid these people were housed in halfway homes, At some stage the government closed down all the homes and let these people into the community with monitoring. Seems its the cheapest option. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 782003 | 2009-06-14 21:10:00 | No one objects to helping those who can't help themselves,it is the ones that choose not to help themselves that are resented. | Cicero (40) | ||
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