Labour govt 2020-23

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And meanwhile, give the squeezed middle class less than $1 a day to 'take the edge off Ardern's prolific spending induced high cost of living crisis' - not even enough to buy a loaf of bread!

Plus the feul tax cuts, which National never gave while in office.

Instead it was a gst increase.

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At least you stopped calling the PM Cindy

It’s an insult to Cindy to call Ardern that name.

Read today about the horse named ‘Smiles like Jacinda’?

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/sp...cing-industry/

How PC these days to get upset about that! A whole country which has lost its sense of humour and perspective - except when it comes to humouring the Maori voters who Ardern needs to stay in power.

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It’s an insult to Cindy to call Ardern that name.

Read today about the horse named ‘Smiles like Jacinda’?

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/sp...cing-industry/

How PC these days to get upset about that! A whole country which has lost its sense of humour and perspective - except when it comes to humouring the Maori voters who Ardern needs to stay in power.

All 16 of them on the hill ? .. or was the count done when some were unexpectedly also absent ?

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Give a clueless-never worked a decent job-leftie power and she will grab it and hang on for dear life - because she has nowhere else to go except the UN.

The Australians are seeing through Ardern for who she is - power mad hungry spin BS artist.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/com...adb83192123bd7

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The australian should worry more about the chinese base in the solomans.

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Corporate welfare:

$100m for a new “Business Growth Fund” to invest in small-medium businesses that banks aren’t willing to lend to – i.e. taxpayer funding for Dragon’s Den dropouts. Government representatives of the Fund will even get seats on SME the company boards!

$118m in “advisory services” for farmers and Maori land owners

$40m on “Transformation Plans” for forestry, wood processing, food and fisheries businesses

$350m “Affordable Housing Fund” for housing developers

$15.5m for “Pacific economic development” (i.e. funding for Pasifika-run businesses in New Zealand)

An extra $26m (now $155m in total) for “Progressive Procurement” – i.e. favouring Maori-owned businesses as government contractors

$349m for a Kiwirail bailout

Health:

An extra $3.1 billion (one-off) for the new co-governed health system ($1.8 billion of this disappears immediately: it wipes off existing DHB debt)

$580m for “Maori Health and wellbeing” including $188m for the new Maori Health Authority

$20m establishing new “Iwi-Maori Partnership Boards” (i.e. introducing co-governance to the new health system)

$70m for Pasifika health providers

Special interests:

$185m in arts and culture grants “to help build a resilient cultural sector as it continues to adapt to the challenges coming out of COVID-19”

$327m in funding for the new RNZ/TVNZ merged media entity

A $1 billion “Maori Budget” including: $91m on Maori trades, training, and cadetships, $3m for “marae connectivity”, $5m for iwi/Maori teachers

$200m for Maori education

$28m for Maori “language, culture and identity”

$162m for Maori organisations to reduce emissions, including $36m for “matauranga [traditional knowledge]-based approaches to reducing biological emissions” and $30m for “Maori Climate Action”

$38m for Pasifika training, education, and bilingual schooling

$14m for an "historical account of the Dawn Raids"

Miscellaneous:

$2 billion in extra spending on education (to smooth over the end of the decile system)

$662m for Defence

More Police ($562m), initiatives focused on organise crime ($94m), and on reoffending ($198m)

$100m establishing a new “Ministry for Disabled People” ($100m) – of which only $11m is allocated to providing services

$178m for councils dealing with RMA reform, plus a new “National Maori Entity” to co-govern resource management

$40m to research RNA vaccine technology

$114m on family violence initiatives

More taxpayer money pumped into the housing market via more generous First Home Grant and First Home Loan rules

Some of this spending is uncontroversial. A lot of it is mad. But what really hit me was the share scale: spending items costing tens of millions were treated like minor bulletpoints by Ministers.

And New Zealanders didn't want it!
New Zealanders weren’t even asking for this new spending.

I guess this is what is called ‘delivering for Māori’ - if you total it up it’s actually billions of dollars in this budget. Absolutely mind boggling the amount of money involved, while the media focuses on a $350 bribe (smokescreen) ‘to take the edge of the cost of living’. This is just epic looting and pillaging of a nations finances - and it’s all put on the nations credit card with Robbo again fudging the way we measure debt.

‘$349m for a Kiwirail bailout.’
That is now the umpteenth bailout / handout to the white elephant on rails. Run by the government so the waste and inefficiency will be off the charts.

This is easily the most wasteful government in NZ’s history. Yet you’ll still hear people talk about how ‘we blew all our money on the $26 million flag referendum’ which just proves that many NZers are not so much brainwashed as brain dead.

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National gave 2b+ in treaty settlements and whanau ora.

Blue is good, red bad we get the idea.

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Give a clueless-never worked a decent job-leftie power and she will grab it and hang on for dear life - because she has nowhere else to go except the UN.

The Australians are seeing through Ardern for who she is - power mad hungry spin BS artist.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/com...adb83192123bd7

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I think Labour have realised they are going to lose power so are now on a mission to spend as much money as possible and do as much damage to the books as they can. Restraint is just not a word in their vocabulary.

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I think Labour have realised they are going to lose power so are now on a mission to spend as much money as possible and do as much damage to the books as they can. Restraint is just not a word in their vocabulary.

Reducing assets was devastating to "tha books".

The net worth is increasing now though far more than the debt.

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National gave 2b+ in treaty settlements and whanau ora.

Blue is good, red bad we get the idea.

Treaty settlements = settlements on behalf of the nation. Supposed to be ‘full and final’.

The amount of money Labour is handing out in ‘delivering for Māori’ in one budget looks to exceed the total of all those settlements.

None of this truth will penetrate your red bubble. You are a rusted-on Labour fanatic and there is literally nothing they could do that would change your stance one iota.