A Labour Government with billion dollar surpluses is like a billionaire socialist – not to be respected or trusted
Strip out the one off re-valuation of Kiwirail and the change in how IRD books tax, and you have $4billion in real surplus.
That’s a problem.
The first problem is the double standards applied to Labour where their surplus is robbing working people while National’s surplus is a strong economy.
The second problem is that you can’t have a 130 000 shortage in affordable homes, record high suicides, 13000 waiting for emergency housing, 295,000 children in poverty and DHB debt exploding to over $400million when you have $4billion in surpluses.
A Labour Government with billion dollar surpluses is like a billionaire socialist – not to be respected or trusted.
Start spending the bloody money Grant!
Id say. A government isn’t a fucken warehouse for cash.
They have stopped spending on roads because of the Greens. Pandering to NZF they have spent large on defence which benefits few in NZ. Where are the state houses they promised as rents still climb and more and more are needed . Health spending is still poor . Prisons still overcrowded while gangs are growing in power . This lot are hopeless and helpless
Are you saying that because they haven’t “fixed” the huge number of deep seated issues left behind by the corporate raiding party, who had nine years to gleefully hollow out nearly every public service/infrastrucure for the sole reason of profit skimming, which then flowed largely out of the country, inside two years, so they’re useless? Are you a masochist?
No, I’m not saying that at all Stefan.
What I’m saying is that this Government had no idea they would win, had zero plan when they took over, never focused on reforming the public service so that their policy could actually be implemented, and that the budget responsibility gag they signed up to has made transformative change almost impossible.
We have a $4b surplus, I’ll make it easy for you – please explain to us all why that shouldn’t be used to clear all the DHB debt?
Would it be fair to say there’s nothing remotely Socialist or for that matter left wing about this government? Could it be they are in fact centre right and have more in common with National than they do with Labour governments as they were back in the 70’s and prior?
Suffice to say sitting on public money when there is so much urgent need from any government is in my opinion utterly disgraceful. As I said and keep saying I refuse to vote for more of this and if that means staying home on election day so be it.
exactly
Agree 100% SEAN.
Hyperbole, and side issues aside.. Not you Martin… When is the next election? And is that a “war chest” being readied? As cynical as it is, I wonder if this isn’t as much an acceptance of the short attention span of rather too many “citizens”…
The New Zealand Labour Party died a slow death. Incrementally it was replaced with younglings who were trained in the current orthodoxy – neo-liberalism. Who better to train them in the dark art than the war criminal tony blair, and the wraith H. Clark.
They younglings dare not use a surplus for good. Neo-liberals are hard wired to ensure wealth trickles upwards. It is an insult that they trade on the name Labour and the emotional content that carries for some. Neo-Labour would be more accurate for the current nasty pack.