Labour leader Phil Goff is challenging the Government to seriously consider temporarily paying the full unemployment benefit to workers laid off because of the downturn regardless of the income of their spouses.
He said those losing their jobs were carrying a "disproportionate burden" of the recession and the National Government was not doing enough to help them.
Whack-it-0n-the-bill-Phil Goff is really taking to this opposition leader job! In that role he can propose anything he wants to, without having to cost it, without having to resource it, and without having to deal with any consequences. It really is the dream job for a career politician like Goff - all care and no responsibility. And as DPF describes it over at Kiwiblog, it's middle-class welfare from Labour.
Perhaps Phil doesn't realise that there's a recession going on. And on this issue at least, National has been quick to distance itself from Phil's socialist pipe-dream - John Key has issued an emphatic "no" to Goff's suggestion. With Parliament resuming tomorrow, an interesting agenda has been set.
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Phil's idea is a good one, and Key's later comment was idiotic, after all, most millionaires wouldn't hear of their partner working. Most people who lose their jobs are ordinary and hard working, and cetainly don't have millions tucked away.
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