MEDIAWATCH: Damien Grant’s Libertarian Covid debt tears hard to swallow as ACT Government borrow billions more
Wait, wait, WHAT?
Damien Grant: John Key and Jacinda Ardern both turned to debt when disaster hit
There are many revelations in the Covid report that a cantankerous columnist with libertarian inclinations could focus on but I am going to bring your attention to this one;
“… a country’s opportunity to adopt an exclusion/elimination policy is largely contingent on … being a high-income nation … that is, on New Zealand’s ability to efficiently produce the goods and services demanded in global markets, supported by prudent economic policies.”
NZ Stuff
Ok.
Ok.
Ok.
Here’s my problem whenever a Right winger starts complaining and bitching about Labour borrowing for a once in a century pandemic.
Firstly the criticism of the spending is a farce…
…secondly Damien (like the Taxpayers’ ‘Union’) TOOK the Covid money…
Businessman took wage subsidy despite believing company would survive without – won’t pay it back
An Auckland businessman says he claimed the Government’s Covid-19 wage subsidy for his business despite believing it could survive without it, but he has no intention of paying it back.
TVNZ
…thirdly, while attacking Key and Ardern in the headline, he ignores the fact that this Government, (which his beloved ACT are propping up), have BORROWED MORE THAN JACINDA and this Government doesn’t have the excuse of a once in a century pandemic!
SO
The Government Act are part of have borrowed more than Labour did AND they all took the Covid money WHILE attacking you for needing it.
That’s why it’s funny that Damien is supporting Trump, here he is bitching about the Covid debt (that he was happy to borrow) while ignoring the cost of Trump’s illegal war in Iran…
US attacks on Iran have cost $21 billion so far
NZ Herald
…when it’s covid subsidies (which the Right also took) or school lunches, these free speech champion libertarians are the first to scream, yet when it’s $21billion on an illegal war by Trump, watch them bending over backwards to justify it…
To Helen Clark: Sorry, but international law won’t stop an Iranian nuke
Stuff
