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'They need you': Auckland City Mission calls for help as Govt slashes funding (www.newshub.co.nz)
submitted 4 months ago by deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.nz
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What in the actual fuck.

How cartoonishly evil does our government have to get?

This, along with Luxon's "I don't care..." about bootcamps from this morning, is just plain evil.

Perhaps, just roll with me here, we don't need another $10b of roads and could be happy with $9.9b of roads, so we could instead feed our most desperately poor and struggling citizens?

This is Captain Planet level evil.

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Apologies, I had my figures wrong.

$2.68 billion for new roads in 2024. And Auckland City mission estimates that $30m is needed to feed every New Zealnder who needs help.

So instead of $2.68b of roads, we could make do with just $2.65b of roads.

[–] FUBAR@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

I will donate