Maori child-killing franchise threatened?

Posted on May 15, 2012 by KG

Meds price hike: ‘Children will die’
Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says proposed increases to the cost of prescriptions “will lead to children dying”. Prescription charges will be raised from $3 to $5 next year..’
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21 Responses to Maori child-killing franchise threatened?

  1. Rufus says:
    May 15, 2012 at 07:57

    Harawira complaining “Every price rise impacts poor people in a far greater way than it does people on the kinds of levels of income that him and his mates are on” is hilarious – he’s on well over $100K himself.

    He forgets that a lot of “poor” (relative term) are molly coddled, and have a huge amount of financial help – help not available to the “rich”.

    Lying, thieving scum.

  2. Katie says:
    May 15, 2012 at 08:19

    And they are not in trouble now? How many children will die without their meds and how many will die by their own parents? I bet you their own parents kill more children than any lack of meds.

  3. KG says:
    May 15, 2012 at 08:28

    Harawira’s response is absurd on several levels. But the part that really gets up my nose is this: I worked at a hospital and saw maori bring their kids into the Emergency Dept. because it was more convenient than going to their GP, and free. Yet these same people he claims can’t afford an extra $2 per prescription used to stand around outside the front doors, boozing and smoking and tearing off in their cars to buy KFC–the rubbish from which was left scattered around the place instead of being put in the nearby garbage bins.
    These people are effing useless slobs, serial whiners and complainers who aren’t yet fit to join the civilized world.
    If the cost of prescriptions is too large a proportion of their taxpayer’s money left over after buying booze and smokes, let them use the ‘maori healing practices’ they’re always carrying on about instead.

    • octagongrappler says:
      May 15, 2012 at 22:28

      Yep KG

      Its like phill goffs pathetic argument that people are not eating vegetables and fruit because of gst. And if the gst went there would be fruit abd vege in abundance!!!

      KFCTABACCDOLE.. encrypte that??

  4. Moist von Lipwig says:
    May 15, 2012 at 09:20

    “let them use the ‘maori healing practices” :smile:

    Predictably, the Maori and Labour parties have come out against. But nothing from the Greens.
    Perhaps they are happy to fall back on their own healing practices, standing round and chanting…….Ommmmm. For example.

  5. kowtow says:
    May 15, 2012 at 09:59

    Work hard at school.Get a job. Get ahead. Too easy.

    • KG says:
      May 15, 2012 at 10:06

      School is now good for next to nothing except stoking the grievance/victim mentality. Getting a job means moving to a city and away from the dope and petty thievery of the maori enclaves. Getting ahead is for suckers who pay tax for bludgers.
      Not going to happen, is it?

  6. The Gantt Guy says:
    May 15, 2012 at 11:44

    So, a $2 increase in the price of prescription medications will kill Maori children? What about the 47% who do not receive their vaccinations?

    http://www.nzcpr.com/weekly326.htm

  7. Andrei says:
    May 15, 2012 at 12:51

    Hysteria – after 20 scripts in one year they are free.

    Thing is some of the drugs I’m on you cannot get more than a month at a time so twenty scripts comes up fast and then its free – hey ho

    • jonno1 says:
      May 15, 2012 at 15:29

      To be fair, some drugs are not fully subsidised. For several years I had to pay ~$10,000/year for a drug to keep me alive (OK, slight exaggeration) until Pharmac finally decided I was a worthy case (thanks, fellow tax payers). Of course, being healthier means I earn more and pay more tax, so it’s money well spent really.

  8. mara says:
    May 15, 2012 at 15:17

    Agree with all the above BUT there are a few honest, hardworking, low/middle /fixed income families who WILL feel this increase. Already their budgets are tighter than nuns’ va va jingles what with the ever increasing costs of every damm thing else and no increase in wages. Difference is, they will, as ever, put their kids first while harbouring mutinous thoughts about the capricious Govt. they never wanted or were too disengaged to imagine that they would suffer. Number 1 on a long list …. Maori claims. ………

  9. mara says:
    May 15, 2012 at 15:44

    KG I had to smile reading your comment about the ethnics and slobbery outside the doors of the hospital emergency depts. I have worked in them, been admitted to them and visited relatives in them quite often. Ya wouldn’t be a smoker by any chance? :popcorn

  10. KG says:
    May 15, 2012 at 17:02

    Yes, I would. :lol: But I know enough not to inflict it on other people at the entrance and to put my rubbish in the proper receptacle. ;-)

  11. mara says:
    May 15, 2012 at 18:46

    KG when you talk about “proper receptacles” I lose the will to live.

  12. KG says:
    May 15, 2012 at 18:50

    :mrgreen: How about “optimum outcomes for stakeholders” Mara? Or perhaps “the pursuit of excellence across diverse cultural expectations”?
    But don’t worry–the “proper receptacle” was often as not some doped-out maori slob’s Ford Falcon front seat. ;-)

  13. jacko says:
    May 15, 2012 at 19:06

    Perhaps if they invested their grievance payouts wisely they could offer a $2 subsidy to their families and relieve taxpayers of the burden.? :grin:

  14. jacko says:
    May 15, 2012 at 19:07

    oops

  15. octagongrappler says:
    May 15, 2012 at 22:30

    This Policy will kill Mouldy Kids :rant