Brash’s 2025 Free Market Frankenstein smokescreen helps make anything less than public flogging seem moderate
Brash economic recommendations unheeded
Most of the prescription offered by the 2025 task force for catching up with Australia is "too radical" for the government to pick up, says Finance Minister Bill English. Dr Don Brash's medicine for the New Zealand economy includes slashing government spending by $9 billion a year.
Everything just paled into the faint hiss of 24 hour news static as Don Brash released his 2025 back to the free market future report aimed at vocalizing our national little brother complex with Australia.
Don Brash is just left of Genghis Khan and once called for the Dole to be replaced by daily work queues outside postal offices where the poor could fight for any offered cash jobs.
This social policy privatization wet dream is Brash’s great leap backwards. Flat tax, canceling interest free student loans, canceling free Dr’s visits, vast slashes in public spending, blowing the Super Fund on Think Tiny (instead of think big, it’s a 1980’s recession joke), impose congestion charges with no increase to public transport and no capital gains tax for Don Brash or his wealthy friends.
It’s like every dirty right wing economic fantasy Don Brash, Rodney Hide and Rodger Douglas ever had rolled into one giant x rated capitalist porn fest.
What’s the possible encore to this madness? Mandatory 10pm Curfew for those who earn less than $20 000, State Housing tenants compulsory military service for operation re-invade Vietnam or the enforced acquisition of at least one child from each beneficiary as spare organs for any landowner who gets knighted?
What Don Brash’s 2025 Free Market Frankenstein smokescreen does do however, is help make anything less than public flogging by National seem moderate.
National can now do their usual stunt of having Optimist Prime murmur about optimism and articulate a soft sell smile to minimize what the policy will really do and National will ram it through under urgency before Christmas while none of you are paying attention.
Merry Christmas turkeys.
posted by Bomber @ 7:30 am
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Buck up Bomber! All these Brash statements and rules will create such a boom in the violent crime rate that the poor in NZ will be rolling in Black Market money before the lights go out tonight in the Beehive, and the Queen Bee of Finance goes home to his taxpayer bought castle - away from his Castle in Southland..
It is going to be funny watching all the antics of a panicked wealthy class trying to explain how making poor people poorer is going to create parady between Australian and NZ wages and drag us all up from the quicksand of poverty that they've been living in - in order to start working that 2nd and 3rd job building a Bicycle track in their back yards to attract those tourist dollars that are being sent over to Australia so Aussie's can bring their RV's over here on Barges to cruise the clean green wonderland-wasteland that was once NZ.
When does the name change become official? "New Aussieland"? And when do we start sending our son's and daughters to serve on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Pakistan, or wherever the next war on poverty and opposing cultures is going to be fought - That will replace the need for domestic jobs and get those pesky student loans paid off or at least finalised 6 feet under the red tape! Maybe the next war could be fought closer to home so we can save Petrol money- how bout Taranaki???
Ahhh, Scrooge would be proud that he's finally shackled the Ghost of Christmas future to the bedpost of the present. Never fear the Brashter's here! I guess this is Don's Revenge for getting his fingers slammed in the door as he reached for the treasury in 2006. And this is how king John promised old Don, Rodney, Roger and the Bretheren things would pan out when he slimed his lying way into power over the top of Helen's tired and sodomized Corpse.
I just can't wait to see all the jobs this is going to create with the new found money through reduced taxes - the wealthy folk- will have on hand soon to invest in the expansion of their wealth at their former workers expense whose jobs have already been outsourced or eliminated to boost profits! They sure won't need to be paid anymore either so whoppeee, time to party large!! And I can't wait to see how the top 3% will spend their gains once the Health, ACC, Education, Super Annuation, and Social Welfare budgets have been eliminated and all those useless eaters die themselves ignorantly out of the way - to make room for the Mining operations, Fun Parks, and new Rugby Stadiums that will be there to stand for the new culture of Greed that will take over once we're all gone! Oopps, I guess I won't be here to see it will I?
and get those pesky student loans paid off Ahhh, Scrooge would be proud that he's finally shackled the Ghost of Christmas future to the 'bedpost' of the present. YOU CAN SLEEP ON IT
Brash's undeclared right-wing supporters were prepared to accept his denials at face value.He and his colleagues spent the week lying their way out of a political disaster.He would only apologise for confusion.Some clearly thought he misled the public but he did not.No one ever really understands what makes polls move up and down, but there is little doubt that the moment that he was revealed as "slippery and untruthful" over his links to the Brethren was the moment National lost the election.Their collaboration could have remained hidden until it was over.These were exactly why they deserved to stumble however.It was fitting that he tripped up before the finish line.
National might just as well have won.The difference between winning and losing was so small it could have gone the other way.No real moral can be taken from it, or just a small one...which is that political manipulation and the biggest money don't always win!
I think it is probably worth mentioning that the reason these proposals are so radical is because in order to catch up with Australia we need to increase our growth rate by 1.8% pa [our 50 year average is 1.5%pa]. In order to increase growth by such an amount radical change is needed - hence the report. It is probably worth mentioning that NZ's 'decline' relative to Australia has occured over 60 years and that this report is trying to fix it in 16.
The problem is that the further behind Australia we get the harder it will be to match their social services, and additionally, if we try to catch up then the recommended line is to cut social services - catch 22.
I will be interested to see how far National goes toward implementing this reports proposals - prepare for things to change
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