Tuesday, November 11, 2008

"Successful lives"

The Ministry of Social Development recently revamped its website. I have been looking for a picture to accompany their service descriptor.

The Ministry of Social Development helps people to be successful in their lives.

Every day our people invest energy and passion into making a difference in the lives of children and young people, families, individuals and communities. In helping New Zealanders gain a job, an education, a responsibility or an opportunity, we build their security and welfare. We support people to form strong families, build vibrant communities and a dynamic nation.




(Photograph: Kirk Hargreaves)

7 comments:

Luke H said...

Whew. Pictures say a thousand words, eh?

Oswald Bastable said...

I saw such a scene yesterday at about 10am.

A lovely little party on the front steps, on a sunny day!

At our expense!

Shane Pleasance said...

It should read "Every day we invest millions of dollars of your money, very badly, in people who consider it their entitlement and keep you enslaved as a consequence. Stop giving them your money, and we will take a gun to you, or they will take a gun to the shopkeeper and shoot him and take his money. Our glorious (ex) Prime Minister has a real recipe to stop this - she will stop the poor people from putting themselves in harms way buy making the nasty profiteering shopkeepers go away."

Anonymous said...

Word verification for this comment was "suckstat".

Could not describe the situation better, so deleted my comment.

Anonymous said...

Satellite dish on the roof of the shed?

wino said...

Wow - powerful photo

Anonymous said...

This must be some sort of Right wing Rorschach test. I couldn't work out what was wrong with the photo. Then I guessed it was because they were Maori. Then it all made sense. They're obviously all unemployed, high, parasites doing great damage to kids and themselves. That would seem to be the only way to jump to conclusions about what seems like a fairly innocuous gathering. I did notice the shocking state of repair of the house. Clearly quality housing and home affordability are two issues where the government and landlords should be doing more.