宝拉·本内特再探新低
工党社会发展事务发言人 杰辛达·阿登（Jacinda Ardern）

面对新西兰失业率冲达13年来最高峰的现实，社会发展部长宝拉本内特那种假仁假义的态度对于在苦苦找寻工作的国人而言实在是傲慢之极。

有人对她在这样一个人人苦寻工作、失业率达到本世纪最高的艰难时期还采取惩罚性方式应对社会安全问题提出质疑，而她对此作出的反应则让人极为反感。

掏出一张假想的职位空缺名单来读一读――以此暗示说只要人们愿意，工作有的是――这种做法太卑鄙了。

本内特女士声称工作对于17.5万辛苦觅工的人而言到处都是――此种说法完全无视这样一个事实：即就在她眼皮子底下失业福利领取率已经翻倍增加，而且人们排着长队去竞争寥寥无几的一点工作机会。

主要通过政府失败的创造就业举措或经济管理来进行的、本内特女士所采取的唯一行动――她称之为对被迫加入救济行列的人的“帮助”――成了对这些人的加倍制裁。
以读一堆招工广告来试图为自己的“工作到处都有”的错误观点辩护――这位部长真是给大家树立了一个新的低水平榜样。

还是这同一位应当对超过5万国人在领取失业救济负责的部长――作出了攻击性的暗示――指责人们不够努力找工。

失业的新西兰人需要的是一个真心诚意想要创造就业的政府，而不是一个老是在抵赖事实的部长。（霍建强议员办公室  供稿）

Jacinda   
ARDERN
Social Development Spokesperson                       

13 November 2012                                                   MEDIA STATEMENT
Bennett stoops to new low

With unemployment at a 13-year high Social Development Minister Paula Bennett’s holier- than-thou attitude to Kiwis struggling to find work is arrogance at its worst, Labour’s Social Development spokesperson Jacinda Ardern says.

“Her responses to questions around her increasingly punitive approach to social security at a time when the number of people looking for work has reached the highest level this century were just plain nasty.

“To read out a list of supposed job vacancies – thus implying work is freely available if people are looking for it – is a pretty low blow.

“Ms Bennett’s assertion that there are jobs out there for the 175,000 people that we know are actively looking for work ignores the fact that on her watch unemployment benefit rates have doubled and Kiwis are lining up in their hundreds for a small number of jobs.

“The only action she’s taken to ‘help’ people being forced on to the dole queue – largely through the Government’s failure to create jobs or manage the economy - has been to almost double her use of sanctions.

“To have a Minister try and back up her misguided view that there is work for anyone who is actively looking for it by reading out job ads sets a new low.

“To have the same Minister – who is responsible for the more than 50,000 Kiwis on an unemployment benefit - imply they aren’t looking hard enough is just insulting.

“What out of work Kiwis need is a Government that is genuine about helping create jobs, not a Minister in denial,” Jacinda Ardern said.