Michael Laws, New Zealand Regional Mayor, Says Pay "Appalling Underclass" Not to Have Children

Today, in my search for news to bring to my readers, I came across a very insulting story coming out of New Zealand. Michael Laws, billed as an outspoken Kiwi regional mayor, has proposed a new solution to the country's child abuse problem - pay the "appalling underclass" not to breed. This is coming from the same person who called the late Tongan King a "bloated brown slug." It isn't so much that he expressed concern over the problems confronting his country, but why did he have to call the poor people in his country "appalling underclass?"

"That there is a group within our society who give their children no hope nor opportunity from the moment that they are born," the regional mayor wrote on the New Zealand radio website where he broadcasts as a talkback DJ. "That these ‘parents’ are known to authorities ... and yet the authorities can only intervene after children have been harmed."

Mr Laws goes on to write: "it would be far better for this appalling underclass to be offered financial inducements not to have children, given the toxic environment that they would provide for any child in their care."

I've been saying this sort of thing for 15 years! Something has to change- it is not a right to have children. If you're not going to be a good parent there's no point..." The mayor believes "the consequent financial and social savings to our community would be considerable. "There are too many people who should not have children."

Yesterday's Dominion-Post newspaper quotes him as saying: "If we gave $10,000 to certain people and said 'we'll voluntarily sterilize you' then all of society would be better off, "he told the. "There'd be less dead children and less social problems." News Au

His comments came as a result of the latest death of a toddler, two-year-old Karl Perigo-Check, who was the son of a convicted murderer and gang member. According to UNICEF, New Zealand is placed third among OECD nations for child deaths due to maltreatment, four spots ahead of Australia. The country is ranked fifth for both child beatings and sexual abuse, again several places ahead of its antipodean neighbor. Sorry, but there is a correct way to voice one's concern without sounding condescending and racist. If the truth be told, Mr. Laws is no Greek Adonis himself.