Labour govt 2020-23

[Balance]

The Labour government - a useless government of announcements and no action.

21 Feb - big announcement of 80 attendance officer roles to be created to arrest and combat increasing and disastrous truancy rates in schools.

12 May - 12 weeks later : admission that ONLY ONE (yes, 1) has started working and at a desk!!!!


https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...dance-officers

The Government is pouring $74 million into a truancy package, creating 82 ‘attendance officer’ roles.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...velations.html

Education Minister Jan Tinetti told Newshub she was "very disappointed" by that and blamed ministry officials.

"I have had constant discussions with my officials. There seems to be excuses all the time. I want to see them in schools and I want to see them in front of kids right now."



Hipkins was Minister of Education, remember?

As useless and clueless as Cindy.

[Balance]

And do note that as usual, everybody is to be blamed except the ministers in charge and the government.

Freaking useless bunch of parasites - the Hipkins cabinet.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ew-scheme.html

[nztx]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...clone-recovery

Prime Minister Chris Hipkins unveils $1b funding support for cyclone recovery


A drop in the bucket in comparison to the Damage - get real Chippie

Or is the Tin dry after Labour's orchestration of Squandering on wasteful projects that produced near to nothing
over recent years ?


https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/132...emains-unspent

Months after Cyclone Gabrielle, more than $30m in donations, funds remains unspent


That went well didn't it - the Charity Organisations still sitting on the dough, while those affected left with nothing
are left to their own devices with only minor relief


Government & the Distribution Agencies should be ashamed of themselves on this abismal effort !


Where are the Govt Beehive idiots sitting while this was allowed to happen ?

Why is Lotto NZ still sitting on Cyclone Monies raised through "Chippies Draw" - a further three months after the day - how did this happen - Hopeless Hipkins ?


This Government clearly couldn't organise a p!ss up in a Brewery any day of the week

[justakiwi]

How about taking a day off Balance. It’s Mothers’ Day. Take Mrs Balance out for a drive or a walk on the beach, and enjoy a politics free day.

And do note that as usual, everybody is to be blamed except the ministers in charge and the government.

Freaking useless bunch of parasites - the Hipkins cabinet.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ew-scheme.html

[nztx]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-...tion/102294382

budget gives households $400 power bill credit as multi-billion dollar surplus confirmed


Thanks Robbo .. or maybe not

Perhaps we need to join OZ for proper fiscal management?

[Logen Ninefingers]

The rampage of the Left Wing cartoonists continues unabated. Today’s cartoon in the NZ Herald from ‘Body’ features a down-trodden and anxious Robbo being menaced by 3 massive evil black horses with burning red eyes. One horse is even labelled ‘reaction’ - a revolutionary term that the Bolsheviks didn’t shy away from using. I guess this horse is the ‘reactionary forces’ who stand ready to attack Labour should its ‘marxist revolution for social fairness’ continue for another term. Another horse is labelled ‘privilege’ - not sure whether this is meant to represent the privilege of ‘wealthy capitalists’, or the privilege of the various special interest groups, co-governance entities, consultants and others who are riding the Labour gravy train. Nah, of course ‘Body’ has ‘wealthy capitalists’ in his sights.
The irony is that - far from bringing the radicals version of ‘fairness’ to NZ - Labour has actually provided over the biggest wealth transfer in this countries history, filling the coffers of cashed-up property speculators while smashing renters with eye-watering rent increases.

Anyway, while poor Robbo is hemmed in by these horses, unable to do what he truly wants, he does mutter that this situation will only continue for hopefully 1 more year. The message from ‘Body’ is clear: elect Labour, and Robbo will then have a free hand to unleash a crusade against ‘wealthy capitalists’. It won’t be a crusade against the riders of the aforementioned Labour gravy train - the people who contribute nothing to the real economy - it’ll be a crusade against business owners, landowners sitting on unrealised capital gains, anyone who has made money outside of the governmental ‘insiders club’.

It’s all very interesting stuff. Maybe it’s an accurate picture of the inner workings of Robbo’s mind. “If we just deal to these ‘rich’ people once and for all, this could be a paradise!” History shows it usually doesn’t work out that way. Anyway, if Labour does get in again - with help from the Watermelons and Tea Party - then ‘Australia beckons’ for many people I believe.

[Logen Ninefingers]

Interesting opinion piece in Stuff by Damien Grant - ‘We aren't in a cost of living crisis, we're just poor’.
He charts a decline in our living standards,
and concludes his diatribe with -

‘We are buying Teslas, iPhones and subscriptions to Netflix in return for some dairy and some over-priced wine, and covering the difference with promises to make up the balance later.

The challenge now is that we do not wish to accept this new reality. We wish to maintain our previous lifestyle, to live in the manner to which we have become accustomed.

We believe that we are entitled to a high standard of living for reasons that we are unable to articulate, that are self-evidently obvious to ourselves but not, sadly, to the rest of the world.

And while we slide down both the relative and now the absolute rankings, we magnificently refuse to confront the reality of our economic situation. Our national discourse is consumed with petty disputes on the most crushingly banal of matters.

We are not in a cost-of-living crisis. We are just poor.’

Nobody is prepared to admit that our wealth is illusory and built on cheap debt. Labour will again seek to address our ‘cost of borrowing crisis’ in the upcoming Budget with hand-outs to help people pay their bills and paper over the cracks. These hand-outs will come from borrowing. We can’t pay our way as a nation, but we won’t admit it.

In the comments under his article the Left Wingers predictably blame ‘smashing the unions’ and ‘the ECA’ for the state we find ourselves in. When it comes to the low wage economy NZers are now used to, the real culprit has been mass immigration. Why would you pay a Kiwi more when you can bring someone in from overseas to do the job for less? Both Labour and National have been addicted to mass immigration to inflate GDP figures and drive the property ponzi scheme, and once again Labour have opened the immigration floodgates as soon as the pandemic has abated.

[Getty]

Polls saying Te Pati may hold balance of power?

MMP served up 2 terms of Labour Greens, now naybe Te Pati.

About time that MMP was put down, if Te Pati wags the dog!

Who could pat such a mongrel?

[Panda-NZ-]

Polls saying Te Pati may hold balance of power?

MMP served up 2 terms of Labour Greens, now naybe Te Pati.

About time that MMP was put down, if Te Pati wags the dog!

Who could pat such a mongrel?

National could go with Labour (or vice versa ), but out of touch luxon ruled that out.

Shame really because they are very similar in economic policy, both are pro-wealthy and for mass migration (only differing in the details).

[Logen Ninefingers]

National could go with Labour (or vice versa ), but out of touch luxon ruled that out.

Shame really because they are very similar in economic policy, both are pro-wealthy and for mass migration (only differing in the details).

Both are for mass immigration and the property ponzi scheme - but the main point of difference is that Labour are in favour of a bloated public service and shovelling cash to ‘co-governance’ entities, and National are not.