{"id":526,"date":"2014-11-13T10:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=526"},"modified":"2014-11-13T10:32:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:32:18","slug":"the-slums-of-jebson-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=526","title":{"rendered":"The slums of Jebson Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"avatr\"<\/a>\u00a0Mana editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n

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Cameron Slater is disappointed on how the Waikato times wrote an article<\/a> on poverty in Jebson place in Hamilton. This despicable article compared New Zealand poverty to slums of Bombay. First let me clear this up for Cameron, New Zealand is not over populated and is one of the most resource rich breadboards of the world and still fails to house and feed its population. \u00a0India is overpopulated due to the unmitigated disaster of British colonisation as the same people suffering poverty in New Zealand didn\u2019t prosper from British colonisation.<\/p>\n

Cameron and \u00a0National want New Zealand \u00a0to be perceived as this mythical brighter future where poverty is ignored or just doesn\u2019t exist. This type of perception building is really dangerous for the country\u00a0because it leads to poor government\u00a0 and a licence to ignore poverty, In an economy where the wealthy \u00a0are already succeeding. \u00a0Whale oil consistently complains about the left wing media focusing on poverty but will never acknowledge that National have as much control over the mainstream media as it does over whale oil.<\/p>\n

The reality the squalor of streets like Jebson place are an embarrassment to the National party because they are responsible for this poverty. In an economy where there is a strong focus on making farmers and senior management wealthier the difference between the haves and have not\u2019s becomes larger. This isn\u2019t the kiwi way \u00a0we have a strong tradition of\u00a0 hapu \u00a0living in a\u00a0communal lifestyle\u00a0when humans first came to these shores.<\/p>\n

When Cameron and the Nats describe New Zealanders that live in state housing they use stereotypes these people are \u201clazy\u201d and aren\u2019t trying hard enough to find a job. They refuse to acknowledge unemployment is hovering around 6% and \u00a0Nationals inability to lower unemployment. The people that live in state housing are the 6% that can\u2019t find meaningful employment simply because there aren\u2019t enough jobs.<\/p>\n

Well done to reporter Aimie Cronin for this article<\/a> and the Waikato times for revealing to New Zealanders the harsh conditions their fellow countryman live in. As this National government has blinkers on to the squalor and poverty of our state housing sector never before in the history of New Zealand have so few wealthy ruled over so many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0Mana editor Joe Trinder Cameron Slater is disappointed on how the Waikato times wrote an article on poverty in Jebson place in Hamilton. This despicable article compared New Zealand poverty to slums of Bombay. First let me clear this up for Cameron, New Zealand is not over populated and is one of the most resource […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}