Friday, June 21, 2013

Can you spell Apartheid ?


"Mana Party leader Hone Harawira wants to offer Maori first-time homebuyers no-deposit, low-interest loans but admits he doesn't know how much the programme would cost.
Mana yesterday unveiled its policy of building 10,000 state houses a year and offering the loans.
The scheme would be similar to the former Maori Affairs Housing Scheme, which was dropped in 1989. Only Maori first-time homeowners would be eligible..."
Try two billion dollars a year.
Even labor isn't mental enough to go with this, but when you are only trying to appeal to the 'gimmee' voters, you may pull it off.

3 comments:

Oi said...

<1>Try two billion dollars a year.

Even labor isn't mental enough to go with this, but when you are only trying to appeal to the 'gimmee' voters, you may pull it off<./I>
As a slight diversion, I don't know if its a fait accompli or still just a proposal, but apparently if you have a maori name, you are to be automatically be placed on the maori electoral roll, unless you make the effort to write in and request to be placed on the general roll. It is the stated intent, that this will ncrease the number of maori politicians

ZenTiger said...

I took up your challenge to spell apartheid. It ended up like this:

āpārtheid.

KG said...

That's a lot of taxpayer dollars to build some slums.....