Rant about politicians
I feel the need to rant about our Government. I actually have some time for John Key. He is a moderate, on the liberal side. But his co-cabinet members scare me to death.
For example, with Crusher Collins at the helm, why would anyone want to work at Corrections? And we need good people to stick around and feel valued, not dumped on at every possible moment for political gain.
Tony Ryall and Paula Bennet stopped conferences, without ever telling us how much it cost us tax payers to stope the conferences in cancelled air fares, cancellation fees for the venues, lost deposits etc. I know about some of this stuff, I once tried to cancel an event, and found it was cheaper to hold it. We still made a loss, but it was about half what we would have made if we had called it off. So what did these called off conferences cost the tax payer? And what galls me is that is seems it was all done because they (Tony and Paula) know best and don’t need people who work in the field to tell them anything. If you were a health professional, (not a doctor, Tony likes doctors) you would be worried about how much say you might have in the future) So while John Key tries to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders, these cabinet ministers shut down discussion. Maybe if the conferences had been called a summit it might have been different. So what is the difference again?
Now our new Education Minister really annoys me. One night we had the news item that school canteens no longer need to sell healthy food. Schools could decide for themselves. Then in the ad break there was an ad about how there is nothing more important than the health of our children. Yeah right, try telling Anne that. Clearly keeping Canteens very profitable is way more important. Then Governments don’t have to fund as much. People are slowly becoming less important and money more and more important. Today cancer experts told us diet and exercise could prevent a huge percentage of colon and breast cancers. Will Anne budge??
And with Bulldog Bill English you just know the new right (now old right) economic policies of the 1980’s and 90’s are back. And they didn’t work so well then. That is when there was a massive blow-out in the gap between rich and poor, and our pay and condition fell so far behind Australia. And so now TVNZ can’t make so many NZ made programming and news anymore, Bill wants a higher return from them. I thought TVNZ was about good TV, but no, ti is about money, again. While I applaud Tony Ryall's (well, The Ministry of Health) investment in the Plunket line, (I never did get why Labour wouldn’t do that) I am left fearful about the future with this bunch of neo conservatives at the helm.
And while I am ranting, how dare Labour say the government should not interfere with the moving of a contract for army clothing to china. That is the kind of arrogance that got them kicked out. It appals me that government agencies constantly go offshore to buy products that can be made here, and could help our businesses, and help our trade deficit. When does the caring for people begin!
I feel better now!
For example, with Crusher Collins at the helm, why would anyone want to work at Corrections? And we need good people to stick around and feel valued, not dumped on at every possible moment for political gain.
Tony Ryall and Paula Bennet stopped conferences, without ever telling us how much it cost us tax payers to stope the conferences in cancelled air fares, cancellation fees for the venues, lost deposits etc. I know about some of this stuff, I once tried to cancel an event, and found it was cheaper to hold it. We still made a loss, but it was about half what we would have made if we had called it off. So what did these called off conferences cost the tax payer? And what galls me is that is seems it was all done because they (Tony and Paula) know best and don’t need people who work in the field to tell them anything. If you were a health professional, (not a doctor, Tony likes doctors) you would be worried about how much say you might have in the future) So while John Key tries to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders, these cabinet ministers shut down discussion. Maybe if the conferences had been called a summit it might have been different. So what is the difference again?
Now our new Education Minister really annoys me. One night we had the news item that school canteens no longer need to sell healthy food. Schools could decide for themselves. Then in the ad break there was an ad about how there is nothing more important than the health of our children. Yeah right, try telling Anne that. Clearly keeping Canteens very profitable is way more important. Then Governments don’t have to fund as much. People are slowly becoming less important and money more and more important. Today cancer experts told us diet and exercise could prevent a huge percentage of colon and breast cancers. Will Anne budge??
And with Bulldog Bill English you just know the new right (now old right) economic policies of the 1980’s and 90’s are back. And they didn’t work so well then. That is when there was a massive blow-out in the gap between rich and poor, and our pay and condition fell so far behind Australia. And so now TVNZ can’t make so many NZ made programming and news anymore, Bill wants a higher return from them. I thought TVNZ was about good TV, but no, ti is about money, again. While I applaud Tony Ryall's (well, The Ministry of Health) investment in the Plunket line, (I never did get why Labour wouldn’t do that) I am left fearful about the future with this bunch of neo conservatives at the helm.
And while I am ranting, how dare Labour say the government should not interfere with the moving of a contract for army clothing to china. That is the kind of arrogance that got them kicked out. It appals me that government agencies constantly go offshore to buy products that can be made here, and could help our businesses, and help our trade deficit. When does the caring for people begin!
I feel better now!
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