tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18947592.post116293495730502011..comments2023-11-06T00:01:30.085+13:00Comments on New Zeal: Labour Sacrifices Handicapped to IdeologyTrevor Loudonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17040453691836232676noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18947592.post-1163046344444221602006-11-09T17:25:00.000+13:002006-11-09T17:25:00.000+13:00You used to see these folk waiting for buses to go...You used to see these folk waiting for buses to go to their work. I haven't seen them out and about for some time.<BR/><BR/>Work is about more than wages. It is one of the most important places of interaction with other people. The workshops were a great way of giving these folk a feeling of participation in the everyday world.<BR/><BR/>The unionists who forced the workshops out of business are heartless ideologues. Dead hearts as well as dead brainsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18947592.post-1162948588295173052006-11-08T14:16:00.000+13:002006-11-08T14:16:00.000+13:00Thanks STF. It was actually Whale Oils relly not m...Thanks STF. It was actually Whale Oils relly not mine, but its the principle that counts.<BR/><BR/>The only real equality is that "before the law".<BR/><BR/>The trouble with minimum standards is that they quickly become maximum standards.<BR/><BR/>If there were 3,500 people in workshops and now there are 1,000 that means 2,500 vulnerable individuals have probably suffered a massive drop in their quality of life.<BR/><BR/>That also probably effects thousands of family members.<BR/><BR/>I don't want the disabled to suffer because the state has betrayed them. I want the disabled to have as many advantages as possible and the best life possible.<BR/><BR/>That can best be achieved in a free, open, low tax, minimum government society.<BR/><BR/>If wages are higher, wealth is greater and restrictions are fewer, people become generally more benevolent, which naturally improves the lot of the disabled.<BR/><BR/>Is socialists can treat the least able in society in this callous way, what would they do to the rest of us, if given a chance.<BR/><BR/>BTW, still working on that RAM info.Trevor Loudonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17040453691836232676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18947592.post-1162946406258722082006-11-08T13:40:00.000+13:002006-11-08T13:40:00.000+13:00Hi Trev.My cousin is also disabled, and always poi...Hi Trev.<BR/><BR/>My cousin is also disabled, and always points to the high unemployment that disabled people suffer, so I feel for your relation. But should a real libertarian, in the spirit of Thomas Paine and the Rights of Man, not fight for equal rights for all people before the law? I mean, paying the minimum wage is the absolute MINIMUM we can do to ensure dignity for the disabled. Critiques like this make you look to be on the side of Ebeneezer Scrooge or Montgomery Burns by comparison.<BR/><BR/>Yours as always<BR/>Secret Trev Fan<BR/><BR/>PS Helen Clarke IS a very Bad lady,<BR/>but thats social liberalism for you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com