You try a second job, PM

“Boy, our Prime Minister Henry Puna has some nerve to say people should stay in the country and get a second job to make ends meet,” a smoke signaller writes to TXT188 in response to yesterday’s front page article ‘Low wages on public lips’. “ First of all, how often is he in the country at one time? What benefit do his taxpayer-funded trips have to our country? And thirdly, the main reason young people leave our shores is because even with two jobs the wages here are nowhere near what you would get in New Zealand or Australia. Raise the minimum wage and maybe people will want to stay. And maybe Mr Puna should also take some of his own medicine and get off his high horse and get a real job that involves hard work and labour – with the wages the ‘people’ are on – and see if he’s still humming the same tune.”

“Boy, our Prime Minister Henry Puna has some nerve to say people should stay in the country and get a second job to make ends meet,” a smoke signaller writes to TXT188 in response to yesterday’s front page article ‘Low wages on public lips’. “ First of all, how often is he in the country at one time? What benefit do his taxpayer-funded trips have to our country? And thirdly, the main reason young people leave our shores is because even with two jobs the wages here are nowhere near what you would get in New Zealand or Australia. Raise the minimum wage and maybe people will want to stay. And maybe Mr Puna should also take some of his own medicine and get off his high horse and get a real job that involves hard work and labour – with the wages the ‘people’ are on – and see if he’s still humming the same tune.”