(23-05-2025, 12:21 PM)heisenberg Wrote:(23-05-2025, 11:21 AM)Lilith7 Wrote: Given this budget & their previous actions I'm now wondering if the plan all along was to be a one term govt, & do as much damage as they could while in office.
Having kicked women in the teeth, they've now gone after both the environment & (predictably) those who are struggling, partly in order to please their donors. How the devil people like this sleep at night is beyond understanding.
ha. what was your opinion of the previous government
They'd have done better to dismantly Neo Liberalism.
(23-05-2025, 03:19 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote:(23-05-2025, 11:47 AM)dken31 Wrote: The reason I think they'll be a one term government is that National, and particularly Luxon, think they can be "all things to all people" resulting in them effectively being nothing to no-one. Government debt is spiraling out of control, which makes them completely unpalatable to anyone vaguely financially literate, but at the same time they manage to give off strong "austerity government" vibes which turns off anyone left-leaning.
Borrowing though, as a government, is not always a bad thing, given the terms and rates available at that level. The trick lies in what that borrowing is spent on. We have lacked infrastructure investment for too long, possibly through conservative thinking, possibly through political self centredness, but the fact is we have fallen behind in technology, in transport, and in basic service facilities.
We need more leadership with guts and imagination, and fewer focused on career and wealth building interests. Locking out lobbyists might help too.
And an age limit wouldn't be a bad thing. A mandatory retirement age for those frozen in old ways of operating.
Definitely agree with regard to lobbyists. That situation should have been prevented.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)