Community Max labelled a lemon by opposition

03 Mar 2011 02:12p.m.

missy wrote:

what i find amazing is that a reporter doing an incompetent job such as going to a job site 8 months later (garden) after it has been harvested and expecting to see vege produce manages to get a major part of society to undermine these young people who provided vegetables to their community and they are then publicly underminded and ridiculed by a nation. Rebecca Wright shouldgive her wage for the garden story to those young people, who did do their garden 8 months ago.

22 Feb 2011 11:25a.m.

Danielle wrote:

For the opposition this is all about points scoring. Good on the national government for believing in the scheme and assisting those who have found it difficult to get work to get a hand up. The only lemon in this picture is the opposition party!

16 Feb 2011 05:05p.m.

Clarke wrote:

Paula Bennett is what National would consider White Trailer Trash.... with an incy wincy tiny bit of Maori thrown in there... making her the perfect token gesture.

And thats what Community Max was... a token gesture... it was Paula Bennett paying young kids to do a bit of sewing or gardening so that she could claim she was doing something about youth unemployment.

But in all seriousness she didnt care... she just wanted to rearrange her figures on paper a little.

Community projects that have an expiry date arent a long term solution to unemployment.

They are merely a token Gesture like Paula Bennett herself.

Laura