Aucklanders are to get a say on whether the city’s ports operations should be sold off, after a knife-edge vote.
Auckland Council’s budget committee had to decide which parts of mayor Wayne Brown’s proposal for the council’s Long Term Plan, which includes a 10-year budget, would progress to consultation with residents.
The big ticket items in Brown’s proposal include establishing the Auckland Future Fund with a portion ring-fenced for self-insurance, transferring the council’s remaining shares in Auckland International Airport Limited (AIAL) to the fund with their future to be decided by fund managers, and either selling a 35-year lease of Port of Auckland operations or retaining the port in public ownership.
Wow, the Boomer King Mr Fixit is already out of ideas past selling the Airport and the Port???
Bhahahaha, suck it Auckland.
The Boomer King was elected with no mandate in a rigged privately run election that was focused on voter suppression by barely having a dozen actual election booths for a city of almost 2million!
Watching him sell and privatise everything not bolted down is hilarious. Boomers don’t care if the assets are sold or not, they won’t be alive to see the consequences of privatising the City!
If you are feeling angry Aucklanders, GOOD! You should be incandescent with rage!
No one wants to talk about the true reason we have crippling roading gridlock and explosive rents because in New Zealand we only focus on the symptoms and never the underlying problem.
The problem of course is mass immigration and no taxing of the rich to pay for the infrastructure required to cope with that mass immigration.
The Woke Left view any discussion of migrants that isn’t positive as xenophobia so the Left can’t talk about the underlying problem of mass immigration or risk getting cancelled and the Right benefit from exploiting migrant labour because our country is addicted to a low wage economy, so they have no interest in mentioning it.
On a burning planet, we need degrowth Capitalism using Think Big Economic Sovereignty to make NZ sustainable.
What we get offered up is globalist free market mantra. Both National and ACT (and to a lesser degree the Greens) see throwing open the immigration flood gates as the solution to tepid GDP growth.
It’s what Key did for 3 terms and it inflated GDP while causing infrastructure gridlock and skyrocketing rents.
The reason we have a vast under investment in water infrastructure is because Local Government won’t upgrade a system put under immense stress by Central Government’s open door immigration policy and low wage economy addiction.
Suburban home owners are fine with this mass immigration policy and infrastructure gridlock because it pushes up the untaxed house valuations they have gotten used to gaining year in and year out.
Neither Central Government nor Local Government want to have an honest discussion with voters about higher water rates and higher taxes.
Someone has to come up with the $150billion over the next 30 years to keep up with the expected population growth from the mass immigration policies of both Labour and National.
ACT and National point to the labour shortage pain crippling our economy and pretend importing cheaper labour is the solution when that was the problem in the first place!
We are addicted to hyper tourism, property speculation and a low wage economy by using international labour flows.
We have become so blinded by free market mythology we refuse to acknowledge short sighted lazy immigration and a user pays view of essential services has caused the issues we have now!
We are addicted to a low cost labour force and force our domestically trained teachers, nurses and Drs offshore to repay the student loans we saddle them with!
The bitter harvest of user pays is biting us now and all the right have to offer as a solution is more cheap labour, crippling public transport and an extension of user pays!
Congestion charges and Tolls are a means to privatise the roads so that only the wealthy can afford to drive on them.
Without massive investment in free public transport, putting in privatisation models that create a gated community user pays culture over roads the taxpayer has paid many times over for is a political crime against the poor!
Watching the Boomer King drown in problems he can’t solve is glorious.
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National will bring in the Chinese to build the roads around the country and the tunnel from the North Shore into the city in Auckland…
i.e.Key and Bill English’s Chinese Belt and Road world domination scheme is back…apparently to save the taxpayer money…
They will then be owned and tolled by the Chinese… until the planet becomes unliveable….
So say for the next 10 – 15 years..
Stupid is stupid does …
Yes and in 9 to 10 years time all those roads will have potholes, just like what was created under the previous 9 years of Nationals Chinese roads standards.
It’s very important for the Wall Street propagandists to ensure that nobody remembers anything that happened prior to the mid-1980s. The monopoly press barons have facilitated a three-decade cover up, in which any discussion of the collapse in living standards, social protections and civil liberties (especially workers’ rights) is verboten — because it would inevitably reveal the intensified exploitation of the workers, and those who are responsible.
Importing large amounts of cheap foreign labour, while simultaneously forcing angry locals to emigrate (via economic repression), plays a key role in this process. Expectations must be lowered in order to continue wage suppression, which requires a large mass of desperate people, who can then be forced to work for half as much.
Yep, all true. And everyone knows it. But, the addiction to cheap labour and the limited high from capital gains keeps the entire country heading back to the opium den for more…..
“Suburban home owners are fine with this mass immigration policy and infrastructure gridlock because it pushes up the untaxed house valuations they have gotten used to gaining year in and year out.”
Suburban home owners also have children who can’t buy houses because of these inflated prices, and who couldn’t get jobs because of immigration. So no, we’re not all fine with it.
Boomers? Nah – just the usual corrupt suspects.
From time to time the tree of liberty must be refreshed – or corruption will expand indefinitely.
That’s no recipe for prosperity.
Maybe we should tax the immagrants?
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