Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara: You see these budgeting your way out of poorness puff pieces every election cycle when National is at the helm. You have less because they are syphoning money from the poor to the rich, EOS

You lost me at, ‘Say you make $2000 a fortnight…’ “Is zero-based budgeting a good way to save money in a cost of living crisis?” www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

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You see these budgeting your way out of poorness puff pieces every election cycle when National is at the helm. You have less because they are syphoning money from the poor to the rich, EOS

Perhaps she should start it with "say you make $382 a week..." and watch the advice just not cope either. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/four-mont...

'We used the pools for a hot shower': Families go months without power because of non-paymentwww.nzherald.co.nz Households choose between heating and cooking to keep the power on.

THIS^^^ Yes $1k a week is nigh median and no doubt a struggle if $150k doesn't qualify a LOT of people for Habitat rent/own projects So how we can expect ANYONE to live on less is a disgrace And those who profit from it are thugs

40,000 disconnected That is huge

Shared this before but pre DPB times I was a budget advisor volunteer after DPB era I wanted to apologise to everyone I had given advise too.

Feel that cold wind on the back of your neck, as the corpse of Muriel Newman rises to write another book on how to cook cardboard ten different ways.

"Just by the own brand Taramasalata"

I nearly blew a gasket at the Xitter pomposity around one of these pieces because of the *brand of yoghurt*.

Always reminds me of this sketch

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That is not far off what it was. Middle-class scolds telling people that the yoghurt they liked was cheaper and therefore you are stupid for eating anything else. How hard can it be? Save 50c and eat something you don't like. How is that better?

I should add the actually eat the cheaper yoghurt they were talking about, but I don't judge people for stuff like that. There's plenty of other stuff out there.

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