The relentless
push for value deducted continues unabated in Godzone. We shouldn’t be
surprised as we have elected a Government that cares only about feathering its
own nest and despises everything that is good about this country.
Sooner or later
their arrogance is going to result in some much more serious social
consequences than we have seen hitherto.
As a New Zealander
you would not be alone feeling you were under attack (or at least your way of
life was) from all sides. It is quite exhausting trying to keep up with all the
mayhem these jerks are causing. Let’s take a look at what is under threat.
The Economy:
I find it rather ironic how a Government that focuses
so much on the financial bottom line makes so many brain-dead short term
decisions that don’t stack up economically. The most glaring example of this of
course is the asset sales circus.
I don’t think I
have seen a single commentator regardless of their political persuasion that
has said selling these assets is a sound decision for the economy. Even the
government hasn’t said that. If you look at what they have said I think you
will find they have actually avoided that question instead relying on the
ever-present TINA for an explanation. But of course there is ALWAYS an alternative.
If it wasn’t so
tragic I would find it funny how they like to tell us they have no other way of
getting out of debt than to sell the family home. As any fool knows when you
sell a major asset; unless you have a cunning and foolproof plan to earn far
more than you have been earning up to the point when you sold it, that asset
will never be yours again. If the asset is merely a trinket, that is of no
importance. However if that asset is a business in a market that provides an
essential product or service, you will miss out on all those earnings for
evermore.
It is also an
extremely unwise move to allow strategic industries to fall into the hands of
foreign powers. There are fewer industries more strategic to a country than the
energy industry and the potential exists for us to be held to ransom over products
that have been made with our resources in our country.
In a move that
typifies the arrogance of this Government, Jianqi has announced a measure he calls
a guarantee and which he would like us to think precludes that happening. Unfortunately
our too often too compliant media have helped him in this regard by not
exposing the package for the cynical sop it is.
His idea is to
offer an incentive to Kiwi buyers. (That’s the millions of Mum and Dad buyers
we are always hearing about who are champing at the bit to buy up huge chunks
of companies they already own). His shonky smoke and mirrors deal is that those
among the Kiwis who buy shares in these power companies will be up for an
incentive bonus of extra shares if they hold onto them for (possibly) three
years. As this is an incentive it means there is no compulsion involved and
therefore no guarantee. Furthermore you and I will finance the cost of these
extra shares and after the three years has passed and the punters have received
their bonus shares they will have much more financial incentive to quit them to
the highest bidder. But the media are all t5o busy breathlessly announcing a ‘guarantee’
from the Prime Manipulator to either notice or bother to tell their readers
that this is all simply an elaborate illusion that belongs on stage with Paul
Daniels or Derren Brown rather than masquerading as news in the nation’s
papers.
The Environment:
Rapacious money
men are attacking our land on almost every imaginable side. Jianqi and Aimless
Adams are collaborating to allow almost every variety of planetary parasite
access to our waters, mountains, farmlands and scenic delights to do with them
what they will. Aimless seems to have dropped the second ‘d’ from her surname
but the horrors she is contemplating would make even Morticia squirm. Make no
mistake none of these projects they are contemplating ‘green-lighting’ are
going to make any meaningful difference to our economy in a positive sense.
As always it
will be the wealthy foreign companies and a few privileged and already very
wealthy Kiwis that will benefit. No doubt our useless Government will limit the
liabilities of these outsiders so they can walk away with very little
responsibility for any damage they might cause much as those responsible for
the Rena disaster have.
Give these guys
another three years and we will have oil wells off the Taranaki, Bay of Plenty
and Hawke’s Bay coastlines. Huntly, the Coromandel and the West Coast will be turned
into giant honeycombs and Fiordland will be owned by Disney.
The Press/Media
As witnessed
during the 2011 election, this Government is not fond of anyone who might wish
to tell it how it is rather than how they would like to spin it.
We saw bizarre
Government favouring decisions from Ombudsmen, High Court Judges and newspaper
editors. Wasn’t that lucky for a government who didn’t want the truth to get
out?
And just to make
absolutely sure no truth seeps out into the awareness of the public they made
good and sure by closing down TVNZ7, the only television channel that dared to
question what they were up to and had the audacity to run programmes that didn’t
always show the Government as an infallible and beneficent force.
Radio NZ will
probably be next because the Natzis all avoid going on there as much as
possible while meantime basking in a confrontation-free zone on commercial
radio stations such as Newstalk ZB.
Some breaking
news today is further proof they don’t want us to have access to any news
programmes that actually attempt to find the truth. I read this morning that TVOne
‘s documentary programme Sunday, is to be cut back to a 30-minuyte format so we
can all ‘enjoy’ the latest incarnation of New Zealand’s Got Talent. Apart from
Q & A which is on during daytime, Sunday is about the only remotely serious
news programme on the Channel and they want to cut it down so we can see more
formulaic enfranchised crap instead. Marshmallow TV for marshmallow brains. Fortunately
not every person in New Zealand has a brain that would be better used by being
stuck on a fork and held over a flame. A great and encouraging example is
Wellington alt-country outfit The Beens who sum up the Government we currently
have in a great song called Not My Problem which you can find at http://thebeens.bandcamp.com/track/not-my-problem.
I shouldn’t think it will get any airtime on any of the radio stations the Government
approve of, but it deserves to go to number one for the sentiments it expresses.
It’s also a good piece musically and the vocalist reminds me of Graham Parker.
I could go on about
the numbers of Kiwis chasing greener pastures across the ditch, the underfunding
of the health system, the rising unemployment figures and the widening gap
between rich and poor.
It certainly ain’t
Jianqi’s problem; but it’s all building up to a big one for us.
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