What NZers don’t seem to understand about the last 9 years of National
After 9 years of National we have a
- housing crisis
- mental health crisis
- water quality crisis
- infrastructure crisis
- inequality crisis
- poverty crisis
- homelessness crisis
- historic state abuse crisis
- prison incarceration crisis
What NZers don’t seem to understand about the last 9 years of National is how ideologically driven it has been. National pretend to be moderate and balanced when the truth is they are hard core believers in underfunding the State so that it can’t afford its social obligations.
Bit by bit, National have underfunded our public services so that they can’t carry out genuine welfare for our most vulnerable and instead have become neoliberal welfare agencies whose goal is to punish and damage anyone who is unfortunate enough to require their assistance.
National have replaced the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff with a giant stick that beats the snot out of anyone who has ‘chosen’ to fall down the cliff.
For those who haven’t been able to get a foothold in the property market and can’t afford private education or health, National’s pledge of a ‘Brighter Future’ feels as hollow as hungry children watching MasterChef.
For those who have benefitted from National’s property bubble build on open floodgate immigration, they will continue voting National even if their drinking water comes complete with a floating cow turd. These people are financially invested in National’s small Government fantasy and won’t change.
This leave the Opposition with a huge challenge to get those most damaged by National’s small government mutilation to the polls without spooking those who have benefitted from 30% untaxed property valuation gains.
How wedded are those who have benefited from National’s grotesque mutations in the property market?
Well, currently they are prepared to put up with a…
- housing crisis
- mental health crisis
- water quality crisis
- infrastructure crisis
- inequality crisis
- poverty crisis
- homelessness crisis
- historic state abuse crisis
- prison incarceration crisis
…just so that they can jet off to Bali for their holidays.
This is who we have become.
Photo credit: Ashleigh Collis
Photo credit: Ashleigh Collis
Andrew IS BASICALLY A NACT TROLL-FACT?
“inequality crisis – Complete rubbish of course. There is no evidence to suggest inequality by any measure is worse now than it was a decade ago. In some areas inequality has diminished – specifically Maori and Pacifica educational outcomes”
You’re a bit out of step, Andrew. Both Bolger and Birch admitted on Radio NZ that inequality has increased since the 1980s. So your neo-liberal heroes are recanting faster than you can type your right-wing garbage. Time to wake up and smell the coffee, petal.
The main impact from this government will be paying off debt for the next generation . Billions owed to foreigners who now have a knife at the neck of any incoming government. The Labour government in the late 30’summer had to agree to impoRte almost everything from Britain and constrain any competing local industry to get an extension on our debt and agree to pay 3 or 4 times as much in repayments in the early 1940’s because of their social welfare policies. The same thing happened to the Lange got enabling Roger no mics.
Martyn, the worst thing about that list is that New Zealanders seemed more and more inured to the ever-increasing problems we are witnessing. It’s like the worsening state of our rivers being so gradial that people aren’t noticing it.
If our rivers and lakes were polluted overnight from 1940s levels to current levels, there would be rioting in the streets and the government would fall. But because it’s happened over 30 or 40 years, it’s a frog-in-slowly-heating-pot-of-water scenario.
That , in my view, is the real crisis here.
Andrew – you represent everything that is wrong with this country.
I can hardly get to the end of this dribble…just because you put it into a bullet point presentation,doesnt make it so….you havnt explained /solved one damn thing.
” And if you think a big cow in a river is dreadful, remember, it could have been paula bennett.”
Good Lord , COUNTRYBOY !!! … now that’s just scraping the barrel and taking the imagery TOO FAR , … shes already managed to pollute NZ politics and now your suggesting that !!!
Wild kuni kuni’s don’t do to much damage unless their numbers get out of control?
those with high leverage in the housing market cant afford a labour led government
an end to the house bubble is the last thing they want a wreaked economy broken society is the price they will accept to keep bubble land afloat there solvency and paper wealth depends on it.of course all bubbles and disillusion of reality pop and as the mass sheepLE default they will become dangerous blaming those who are the least re-possible we have seen fjk leave dodge in a hurry.debt bomb ticking !
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If it deals with mental health, joblessness, homelessness or poverty it goes to the bottom of the deck and there isn’t enough money for it.”
And the one and only reason for this?
It doesn’t return a dividend!
As the ABBA lyric goes
“Money, money, money
Always sunny
In the rich man’s world”
Don’t forget the waste crisis!
Even though the Waste Minimisation Act was passed in 2008 Nick Smith has refused to bring in product stewardship for problematic waste issues like tyres, ewaste, agricultural chemicals and packaging.
He has spent $20 million on ewaste projects, $21 million on agricultual chemical projects, $11 million on packaging projects and $1 million on tyres – with barely any impact (if any) on these waste streams!
The tyre, agricultural and electronics industries have all drafted product stewardship schemes and asked him to make them mandatory so there would be a level playing field (no free -riders) and he has refused.
At one point he said he didn’t support tyre product stewardship because tyre companies would lose the “income” from fraudulently charging their customer a recycling fee for tyres that were then dumped.
He has just spent another $3 million on a pointless and ineffective anti-litter scheme with the stated purpose of “naming and shaming” communities with high litter at an awards ceremony later this year.
The NZ Product Stewardship Council is running a campaign to bring back bottle deposits (where you get 10c back if you return your bottles for recycling) like we had when we were kids. It works. Its common cents. It will create jobs and reduce litter by 65%.
Why does Nick Smith oppose it?
http://kiwibottledrive.nz/
People like Andrew Mosa are purely selfish they vote for themselves not for the betterment of our country and the majority of NZers and they are very judgmental.
People like Andrew Mosa are purely selfish they vote for themselves not for the betterment of our country and the majority of NZers and they are very judgmental.
National critically underspends on every government department and state service with two exceptions.
One is the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.
The other is roading.
That shows what National’s priorities are: if it is business or cars can use it then it gets top billing and money is not a problem
If it deals with mental health, joblessness, homelessness or poverty it goes to the bottom of the deck and there isn’t enough money for it.
At least National is consistent. If it involves raping a natural resource then they are all for it, if it involves protecting people then they don’t want a bar of it.
That Andrew fellow, put him on 7 Dumb at 7 PM on week nights.
I am sure between him and Hosking, it would ensure the demise of that dead end show.
Birds of a feather, the two of them.
I seriously think Andrew & Hoskings need treatment at the Mason Clinic with their chronic obsessions with the National Party?
Mosa,
You really need to do some work on apostrophes, because it diminishes your argument, when you cocque up the English language (excuse my French).
voter’s – no apostrophe needed here, it is a plural.
member’s – ditto
number’s – ditto again
its – should be it’s, this is a contraction of it is.
Andrews ” Brighter Future ” – apostrophe needed, it is possessive (but I agree that with Andrew’s “Brighter Future” under National and a coalition led by ACT).
i – should be a capital.
More Charter Schools will fix the problems that Mosa has with the English language.
DAVID SEE-MORE ,
Thank goodness you are not anything to do with the legal system .
You would be the sort who would dismiss evidence in a written statement from a witness at a murder trial because it held some spelling mistakes…
Idiot.
Andrew you need to do some homework before you make those stupid comment about mental health. Have you dealt with the public mental health services bet you haven’t but you have heaps to say. I have dealt with these services so I speak with some authority here you need to shut the f ..up and stop talking crap. The services have been cut Andrew 100 million plus funding cut now this is why we are seeing so many sick people on on our streets including pedophiles you need to stop talking through the whole in your backside as usual and wake up mate.
You’re calling mental health issues a product of chemical abuse, Andrew? You really are an ignorant ass, aren’t you?
Only someone with a loose grip on reality could make such an asinine comment and think they’re being clever. But you’re not as clever as you think.
Housing crisis, we all agree mass emigration in the past 10 yrs. I don’t think you can blame the previous govt forever.
Infrastructure crisis, yes we have a new motorway which is to have traffic lights right in the middle of it and at the end of the tunnel so we can idle in the fumes. There was no new south Avondale off ramp or Unitech off ramp (over 15,000 students) so all that traffic will be forced to join to the Pt Chev and New Lynn traffic jams.
Andrew – I could go into a point by point on your nonsense But you and I both know your a self centered prick so all I will say is your time will come. You can’t go through life not caring about 25% of kids in poverty and the exploitation of hard working people and not understand the ethical ramifications. Take a long hard look at yourself and you will understand what I mean.
It’s not just a mental health crisis… the entire health sector is in crisis. That it manages to continue to operate is down to sheer goodwill from the people who work in it.
One of the reasons for the mental health crisis is the fact DHB’s are forced to conform with the Govt edict, that is, savings. This forces DHB’s to do more with less, thus the many, many unfilled clinical positions, resulting in savings.( this is real) As a consequence however, this results in stretched resources, staff burn out, too over capacity of client numbers and eventually costly mistakes.
Roger that. My 86 year old mum was hospitalised with a potentially fatal kidney infection last weekend. She was so bad she had Rigor tremors and needed bulk fluids and I/V antibiotics for 24 hours which fixed it, pretty much. She is still on orals though.
The point is that the two docs who attended her at Hutt Hospital (HVDHB) wanted an ultra-sound to have a look at the offending kidney – but could not because of the “savings”, saying “Sorry but you’ll have to pay for it”! To be done privately of course – even though they have a perfectly good setup at Hutt Hospital.
My mum could easily have died of this – and came uncomfortably close to it. Is the need for cost saving so bad that they deny a 10 minute procedure that could well save a life? Shame on this Govt. I have not been paying taxes for 50 years to have anybody treated so shabbily.
When we have parties and businesses use technologies and services provided for instance by Cambridge Analytica, then any election becomes more predictable, and government parties may be able to keep hanging onto government, because they can manipulate and misinform the voters, and do not only have to rely on the also biased MSM:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04zvqtx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica
Quote:
“SCL Group calls itself a “global election management agency”[12] known for involvement “in military disinformation campaigns to social media branding and voter targeting”.[6] SCL’s involvement in the political world has been primarily in the developing world where it has been used by the military and politicians to study and manipulate public opinion and political will. Slate writer Sharon Weinberger compared one of SCL’s hypothetical test scenarios to fomenting a coup.[6]”
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win
Here in NZ Inc we have David Farrar and his polling company, and unless he has already taken on board such tactics and methods used by the above, he will most certainly consider doing so some time soon.
In any case, he can read what most people think and worry about, so like John Key, he will most likely have a direct phone line to Bill English, to give advice on what the government needs to do, to avoid losing an election:
http://www.curia.co.nz/
Add to that his innocent looking blog, and you are half way there:
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/
The Nats continue serving up some bits of “social” policy now and then through their Budget, and one is due very soon. Settlement of female care-workers case, putting in some new restrictions on immigration, and spending a bit more here and there, that are the first indications of what is to come.
They try to take the wind out of the sails of Labour, NZ First and Greens, before the election date has even approached. That is the major problems, to counter it, Labour and Greens need to offer a solid, committed and still feasible, responsible alternative, and stick with what they announce, no matter what.
Only in Andrew’s world of a hands off government, a laissez faire government, that only intervenes when it fears public frustration or anger, does this government get off its responsibilities.
Blaming everyone else, including the victims suffering the consequences, that is what English and his buddies in the Nats are doing. The immigration policy is not made by Auckland Council, nor is a Council responsibility for selling off Housing NZ homes that are needed for homeless people.
Blaming those suffering mental health issues for allegedly indulging in mind altering drugs is a blanket labeling and stigmatising, next he will tell us rape victims are to be blamed for being raped.
Ignoring real crisis and problems seems to be his recipe, for water pollution, like high incarceration rates, higher than in most other developed nations.
Andrew lives in his neoliberal and right wing bubble, he indulges in trolling on TDB, as he has too much time at his hands, as a privileged person, so he can annoy those that read here, and who express more genuine concerns and views.
As usual, Andrew, your “insights” are superficial, contradictory, and points the finger at everyone except at the real root causes of this country’s real socio-economic problems. You blame everyone except those in government.
Which is risable of course, as the poor, homeless, and most vulnerable in our society have never been in power to make our laws.
By the way, your reference to mental health being “due to chemical abuse anyway” shows you to be the ignorant fool we’ve become accustomed to.
Plus one to what you say frank.
Andrew is nothing but a superficial right wing ideologue. That cant see the smoke for the flamez thats burning his house down ti the ground.
Yes Frank,anything Andrew has to offer is worthless as a result of his mental health comment. And ignorant fool is too polite.
Please share this link and utilise it for all it’s worth and let’s just see if Andrew can make this councils, Helen Clark and drug abusers, fault.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/91742963/mbie-worried-ministers-wont-like-their-longoverdue-housing-affordability-measure