I write this fuelled by rage!<\/p>\n
The latest numbers from Stats NZ showed that more Kiwis than since March 2015 are currently unemployed<\/a>. That was when John Key was PM and Bill English was Minister of Finance. A debate between Nicola Willis and Bill English is called for, to compare notes on how to fuck us over and screw<\/a> the NZ economy even further.<\/p>\n Hopefully, only one more Budget to go from this awful lot.<\/p>\n Instead of ploughing money into roads, waging war on innocent defenceless road cones<\/a>, and wrecking the environment, the Coalition should read the bloody signs on the wall that scream that they\u2019ve been doing it all wrong. But the three monkeys in the Beehive only want peanuts for the plebs.<\/p>\n Those neo-liberal zealots only focus on efficiency. This is how that works. Those zealots have learned, somewhere, that the economy is the same as running a business or even a household and that to make it run more smoothly and efficiently, they have to remove redundancy, duplication, and superfluous bits & pieces. Borrowing from the Mary Kondo philosophy, with minimalist influences from European culture (particularly, Scandinavian), those zealots remove people from the machinery that makes up the economy like removing blocks from a Jenga tower. The trick is to stop just before it comes crashing down. In that unlucky event, those zealots blame other zealots such as the RBNZ or, and this is the preferred scapegoat, the previous Government. So, what\u2019s left is an economy full of gaps & holes, but nothing that cannot be fixed with a little bit of sticky tape, a piece of number 8 wire, a bit of handwaving & waffling, or opening the immigrant tap. The latter has a bonus effect in that it emboldens other zealots who flourish in xenophobic winds that keep NZ so pure & clean.<\/p>\n And so we limp along, until the next lot takes over, which might be slightly worse mis-managers of the economy \u2013 they\u2019ll rebuild the tower from the scattered pieces they can find in the first 100 days of government and then they play the same game again, with the other hand. If we\u2019re lucky, because all we can do is to vote with our feet and leave for greener pastures in sun-soaked Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n I still have plenty of fuel left in the tank, enough to mow the lawns until at least 7 Nov.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated Posts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I write this fuelled by rage! The latest numbers from Stats NZ showed that more Kiwis than since…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,219,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-267113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}