Posted on 14-4-2003
Going
Cheap - Hypocrisy
“For The Warehouse founder Mr Stephen Tindall, to urge every
business to consider hiring at least one young person in order
to eliminate the scourge of youth unemployment, is akin to George
Bush urging all other nations to make reparations for the damage
that the US bombs have wreaked upon Baghdad” said MADENZ founder
Ms Stephen Tindall-the woman today.”
“Based on The Warehouse Ltds financial statements and
my best conservative estimates, Mr Tindalls preference to purchase
imported products rather than New Zealand made products, has
cost the New Zealand economy a total of $2.04 billion in loss
of taxation, loss of spending power and welfare payments between
the years of 1990 -2001.”
“During this same period Mr Tindalls imports alone have caused
a total of 75,706 jobs to be lost in the New Zealand manufacturing
sector.”, Tindall- the woman says.
The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development
(NZBCSD) which Mr Tindall chairs, has launched a guide
to youth employment aimed at the business sector. The council
estimates that the net effect of getting youth off the dole
and into work is a benefit of $400 million to the country.
“Rather than making more demands on the already strained New
Zealand business sector, the NZBCSD ought to point out to their
chair, that his company alone in 2001 - had it chosen to replace
its imported products with New Zealand made products -
could have saved the New Zealand economy $498 million for that
one year and could have created 18,321 productive jobs for New
Zealand youth.”
It is said that the definition of a hypocrite is - “what the
lips speak the hands don’t do.”
“On behalf of the growing stream of tertiary students whose
numbers grew by 47,000 last year and also on behalf of the presently
unemployed youth, MADENZ is taking a keen interest in what all
of our leaders hands are doing for the future wellbeing of our
young people.”
Contact: Stephen Tindall-the woman. Founder of MADENZ, PO Box
4580, Mt Maunganui Tel/Fax 07 5745822
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