Govt surplus beats expectations https://t.co/UU4pwuz7Xw
— Brent Edwards (@journobedwards) July 5, 2017
Women's centre funding 'whisked away' by government https://t.co/0objSoURTN
— Brent Edwards (@journobedwards) July 5, 2017
Figures reveal under-staffing of mental health sector https://t.co/7d5SSEydjw
— Brent Edwards (@journobedwards) July 3, 2017
Suicide is now the leading cause of death for those aged 15 to 19 in New Zealand #BreakTheSilence https://t.co/0WEm5ZMWvL pic.twitter.com/sPBqh2kphk
— nzherald (@nzherald) July 4, 2017
Without those tax cuts for the rich we could have had a surplus and a functioning mental health service, and much much more.
Where are our priorities?
All of that and a public sector that is not starved for funds therefore a properly funded heath sector, police, justice system, child harm intervention, public broadcasting, conservation, research and development, gambling harm reduction, drug rehabilitation, education INCLUDING community education National did away with, communications and transport, etc etc. You know all those things National have taken the knife to!
But no morons, we have a “surplus”.
Just hoping and a praying that Grant Robertson doesn’t fall into his same old trap of saying the economy is doing really well but we can do it a tiny bit better!
What I find infuriating is that Steven Joyce and Bill English are allowed to come on news programmes and state this bullshit about surpluses, and being fiscally responsible managers of the economy, and yet never get asked why if this economy is working so well for it’s citizens, why Household debt in New Zealand is at an appalling 167.20 percent of gross income..the highest ever recorded.
In other words National have overseen the highest levels of public debt ever recorded…and getting higher by the day.
Social cleansing via budget cuts.
I don’t know who to vote for. You all suck.
Choose the one that sux for you the least is my advice.
Austerity the NZ model, not like other models, but just as nasty to the people who die by one means or another.
This is what the beige revolution looks like in effect. Amoral, and down right awful.
NZ public spending as % of GDP is lower than “austerity” countries…
Bling’s view
ropata
Thanks for headsup to Miss Betsey Trotwood. I particularly liked in the list of tweets the one comparing state houses built and sold by the political parties during their terms. Labour seems to be ahead in the built by a country mile.
Thank you ropata. Yes the word AUSTERITY is not used here by politicians OR journalists.
Maybe it is time it was
Yes please. We have fallen a long way from the great society of the 70s that provided for all citizens.
Neoliberalism is the lie that we are “enlightened” all the while dismantling the social structures that made NZ a decent place to live. Even Jim Bolger can see it.