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New Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand. Don't you go worrying your pretty head about anything this Government is doing on your behalf. Remember to have an optimistic, aspirational look around you once in a while, and say, "What a great country I live in".
Don't ever ask questions.
The shit we live in a great country!
We used to. It is well along the path of being destroyed.
There are some videos that go with this. To watch them go to the original article
Don't ever ask questions.
The shit we live in a great country!
We used to. It is well along the path of being destroyed.
There are some videos that go with this. To watch them go to the original article
What could possibly go wrong with the TPP?
Dita De Boni
31 July, 2015
New
Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand. Don't you go worrying your pretty
head about anything this Government is doing on your behalf. Remember
to have an optimistic, aspirational look around you once in a while,
and say, "What a great country I live in".
Don't
ever, ever worry that we are about to be sold down the river in
Hawaii, where 12 countries are in the middle of agreeing to the
Trans-Pacific Partnership. You don't need to know what's in it. We
ourselves barely know, as we change our story by the day, but all you
need to remember is a) we are great economic managers, and b)
America, which holds almost all of the bargaining power, wants us to
succeed economically almost more than we do.
ViIt
has ruled out a couple of things - it won't let us grow our dairy
exporting trade too much; "something something software"
that few of us understand; and it won't let us operate Pharmac the
way we're doing it. It'll also allow corporations to sue us when they
don't like the way we change our laws.
But
that last one, at least, is easily fixed. Keep electing us, because
we're much more amenable to legislating to make big, litigious
corporations feel comfortable. Problem solved. Boom.
Nation,
despite all the leftie whining you're hearing, we're relaxed about
what the TPP will mean for you, the consumer.
I
mean, you'll still be paying $5 per prescription well into the
future. It'll just be more of your tax dollars, not your purse and
wallet dollars, used more to pay off global pharmaceutical concerns.
So that's totally cool.
We're
positive about the continued privatisation of our social services,
and see absolutely no reason to change course whatsoever. The
problems at Mt Eden prison, for example, were just a particular set
of circumstances that happened to occur in that microclimate. I mean,
those things will only happen where you have a private company paid
enormous sums to run a complex, expensive public service at cost,
with fewer staff, totally disconnected from any incentive to
genuinely rehabilitate people back into the community, and kept in
check only by themselves.
In
fact, we're so calm with the Serco situation that our Corrections
Minister, Sam Lotu-Iiga, says he's "not worried" a Mt Eden
Serco prison guard's been arrested as part of Head Hunters raids.
We're so relaxed about it that Social Development Minister Anne
Tolley says she'd still be happy to offer contracts to Serco to run
social services for vulnerable children. Be positive and aspirational
for the children for a change, why don't you!
We've
also said repeatedly that the problems at Mt Eden prison are
absolutely no worse than what might happen in publicly owned prisons
across New Zealand. Some then whine: "Why bother privatising
these services if - at the very least - they can't be run better than
those run publicly?" It's the kind of question we always get
from negative nellies on the left.
Well,
we find this question seriously annoying, and will ignore it. It
should be apparent that privatisation is immeasurably better - look
at charter schools. (Don't look too closely.)
The
privatisation of our social services is happening apace. One way this
will be achieved, in the health sector at least, is to put our own,
hand-picked appointees on each district health board, in preparation
for the gradual privatisation of our health system. It's happening in
England and we want to emulate those amazing outcomes (for business)
right here in New Zealand. We hope it'll be something like our
hand-picked people on Environment Canterbury, allowing for a fast
throughput of business deliverables. Or our people at Cera, who will
hopefully get out of the way and allow private partners and overseas
companies to swoop up vital civic assets, prime Christchurch land -
and fix crumbling infrastructure, with any luck.
Yes,
the economy is slowing down. Sure there is milk powder stockpiled in
China and foodbanks are busier than ever.
But
we're listening to the concerns of the people, and we're chilled
about how these problems will resolve themselves.
Above
all, remember the words of economic guru Bill English, who at the
National Party's recent annual conference in Auckland, put it in
perspective. Slowing economic growth would not derail the party's
re-election chances in 2017, he said, because, luckily, it came at
the right time in the electoral cycle. Boo-yah!
For the greatest commonsense and reliable information listen to Prof. Jane Kesley
Jane
Kelsey makes
mincemeat of Mike Hosking
New
Zealand, New Zealand, New Zealand. Don't you go worrying your pretty
head about anything this Government is doing on your behalf. Remember
to have an optimistic, aspirational look around you once in a while,
and say, "What a great country I live in".
Don't
ever, ever worry that we are about to be sold down the river in
Hawaii, where 12 countries are in the middle of agreeing to the
Trans-Pacific Partnership. You don't need to know what's in it. We
ourselves barely know, as we change our story by the day, but all you
need to remember is a) we are great economic managers, and b)
America, which holds almost all of the bargaining power, wants us to
succeed economically almost more than we do.
ViIt
has ruled out a couple of things - it won't let us grow our dairy
exporting trade too much; "something something software"
that few of us understand; and it won't let us operate Pharmac the
way we're doing it. It'll also allow corporations to sue us when they
don't like the way we change our laws.
But
that last one, at least, is easily fixed. Keep electing us, because
we're much more amenable to legislating to make big, litigious
corporations feel comfortable. Problem solved. Boom.
Nation,
despite all the leftie whining you're hearing, we're relaxed about
what the TPP will mean for you, the consumer.
I
mean, you'll still be paying $5 per prescription well into the
future. It'll just be more of your tax dollars, not your purse and
wallet dollars, used more to pay off global pharmaceutical concerns.
So that's totally cool.
We're
positive about the continued privatisation of our social services,
and see absolutely no reason to change course whatsoever. The
problems at Mt Eden prison, for example, were just a particular set
of circumstances that happened to occur in that microclimate. I mean,
those things will only happen where you have a private company paid
enormous sums to run a complex, expensive public service at cost,
with fewer staff, totally disconnected from any incentive to
genuinely rehabilitate people back into the community, and kept in
check only by themselves.
In
fact, we're so calm with the Serco situation that our Corrections
Minister, Sam Lotu-Iiga, says he's "not worried" a Mt Eden
Serco prison guard's been arrested as part of Head Hunters raids.
We're so relaxed about it that Social Development Minister Anne
Tolley says she'd still be happy to offer contracts to Serco to run
social services for vulnerable children. Be positive and aspirational
for the children for a change, why don't you!
We've
also said repeatedly that the problems at Mt Eden prison are
absolutely no worse than what might happen in publicly owned prisons
across New Zealand. Some then whine: "Why bother privatising
these services if - at the very least - they can't be run better than
those run publicly?" It's the kind of question we always get
from negative nellies on the left.
Well,
we find this question seriously annoying, and will ignore it. It
should be apparent that privatisation is immeasurably better - look
at charter schools. (Don't look too closely.)
The
privatisation of our social services is happening apace. One way this
will be achieved, in the health sector at least, is to put our own,
hand-picked appointees on each district health board, in preparation
for the gradual privatisation of our health system. It's happening in
England and we want to emulate those amazing outcomes (for business)
right here in New Zealand. We hope it'll be something like our
hand-picked people on Environment Canterbury, allowing for a fast
throughput of business deliverables. Or our people at Cera, who will
hopefully get out of the way and allow private partners and overseas
companies to swoop up vital civic assets, prime Christchurch land -
and fix crumbling infrastructure, with any luck.
Yes,
the economy is slowing down. Sure there is milk powder stockpiled in
China and foodbanks are busier than ever.
But
we're listening to the concerns of the people, and we're chilled
about how these problems will resolve themselves.
Above
all, remember the words of economic guru Bill English, who at the
National Party's recent annual conference in Auckland, put it in
perspective. Slowing economic growth would not derail the party's
re-election chances in 2017, he said, because, luckily, it came at
the right time in the electoral cycle. Boo-yah!
For the greatest commonsense and reliable information listen to Prof. Jane Kesley
Jane
Kelsey makes
mincemeat of Mike Hosking
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