Back to work

A blog post from Off the Couch by Kyle MacDonald

Freud was famously quoted (or possibly mis-quoted, translating from German to English can be a bit tricky) as saying his definition of good mental health, or “normal neurosis” was to “Live, love and work.”
It seems John Key’s definition is much simpler: Work.
Both our Prime Minister and the current Minister for the ACC have both revealed their lack of understanding of the world of disability and welfare by their answers to recent questions about the performance based targets at the ACC:

“She [Ms. Collins] said measures that helped ACC encourage people back into work where appropriate were “a good thing”. NZ Herald, June 22, 2012.

This was further reinforced with yesterday’s announcement that WINZ will have a target of reducing the number of long term beneficiaries by 30%.  No word on where the jobs, training or rehabilitation to facilitate this will come from.   Just a number. 30%, gone, by 2017.

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http://psychotherapy.org.nz/back-to-work/