The Case against John Key and his Daddy State

Forget the Talkhate radio myth of Nanny State, the reality of John Key's Daddy State is much worse than water saving showerheads and power saving lightbulbs.

1:
Vast erosions of your civil liberties with the Police, The Pork Industry, The Meat Board, and bloody Dog Control Officers with the power to break into your home and spy on us WITHOUT a warrant!
2:
Manufacturing a crises in ACC to privatize it giving the Australian Insurance Industry a multi million dollar bonanza.
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Abusing sexual abuse victims by forcing them to be diagnosed as mentally ill before they can get access to counseling.
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Recreating class stratification with sirs and dames on top and dirty bennies on the bottom.
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Rising GST to pay for a massive tax cut for the rich after ruling a GST rise out before the election.

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Telling the mining industry what their mining policy was in 2006 but not tell the public in the 2008 election.
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Planning to mine in conservation land based on mining lobby figures valuing minerals at $195 billion when the 2002 Statistics Department puts the figure at $3 and a half billion.
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Bennie bashing with confidential information anytime the media needs a distraction
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Forcing the sick back to work when there is no work
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Forcing solo mothers back to work when there is no work
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Threatening Radio NZ for asking questions.
12:
Holding ‘consultation’ on Climate Change when they already had made up their mind.
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Holding ‘consultation’ meetings for Maori seats on the Auckland Super City when they already had made up their mind.
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Subsidizing their big polluter mates by 55% up until 2050, the ice caps will melt before National stop protecting their big polluter mates
15:
Passing a weak emission target that doesn’t do a bloody thing
16:
Allowing the Dairy industry to set the new water standards for the country (seeing as they are one of the biggest polluters this is a joke)
17:
Undemocratically Disbanding Ecan to give Farmers more water
18:
Appointing booze barons to run Auckland
19:
Gerrymandering Rodney so voters there get more representation than Auckland Central residents
20:
opening the country up for more foreign ownership
21:
Privatizing NZ citizenship to millionaires (wonder which party they will vote for)
22:
Taking the independence away from the Overseas Aid agency so McCully can make a buck out of it
23:
Sending NZ back to war in Afghanistan
24:
Throwing the privacy laws and cabinet manual out the window to attack beneficiaries who complain about cut backs in training allowances.
25:
Gutting the Adult Education programmes by a staggering 80% which will lead to massive community isolation.
26:
Creating Council Controlled Organizations that will be secret and will spend 75% of the SuperCity budget with no public oversight whatsoever appointed by Joyce and Hide.
27:
Giving the private education industry $35 million while public schools suffer
28:
Annexing Auckland with a misuse of urgency and Rodney gets to appoint his mates to run the city.
29:
Government Departments no longer responsible for their carbon footprint
30:
Canning physical activity programmes for children

31:
Wholesale dismantling of democratic oversight with 40% of the time passing legislation last year through under a misuse of urgency.
32:
Taking sports money off poor schools to give to rich schools
33:
Live sheep exports
34:
Privatization of prisons EVEN THOUGH the head of Private Prisons from GEO told us at a select committee that private prisons WON’T be cheaper!
35:
Creation of rape pen shipping container prison cells
36:
Giving the Police power to take your DNA based on mere arrest of a crime with no judicial oversight.
37:
Giving Police massive new unchecked powers and wiping out evidential thresholds to seize your assets
38: Drug Driving laws that are utterly subjective and allow the Police to take your blood meaning a joint you smoked last week will still show up costing you $5000 and 3 months inside.
39:
A 9day fortnight that actually ends up costing workers
40:
Preparing TVNZ for privatization
41:
10% employment cuts in the public sector when caps were promised as opposed to (knee)caps.
42:
Dismantling pay equity for 46% of the working population because to National women don't matter as much as slashing wage costs
43:
90 day right to sack in an unemployment environment that ranges from 7% to 14%
44:
Junk food back into schools
45:
The molestation of the select committee process with a misuse of urgency that you would need to go back to 1998 to find a comparison.
46:
Truancy fines raised to $3000
47:
$35 million on military boot camps that don’t work but make middle class voters feel smug (this amount has increased btw)
48:
Attempting to legalize whaling
49:
Gutting the RMA pretending it’s cutting red tape when really it’s burning Green tape
50:
Dismantling the ETS and holding a right wing inquisition into the ‘science’ of global warming
51:
Medieval law and order policy pushed through by a right wing homophobic drunk who now wants to meddle with the NZ Bill of Rights so his 3 strikes and you’re locked up forever raw meat law can pass
52:
Forcing through a National Standards system that has been attacked by educational experts and will only create a league table by stealth in the interests of the private education industry.
53:
Ending the independence of Legal Aid based on nothing more than rumour with zero actual evidence.
54:
MMP referendum when no such referendum was ever promised.
55:
Gagging DOC, Ministry of Justice and Boards of Trustees if they don't agree with ill thought out policy.
56:
Appointing a homophobic bigot like Brain Neeson to the Human Rights Review Tribunal under questionable circumstances.

Water saving showerheads and power saving lightbulbs don't seem so bad now do they folks?