In the wake of Treasury’s Half Year Economic and Fiscal Update, Associate Professor Susan St John gives her assessement of the government’s unnecessarily hard neoliberal economic austerity measures and how the Luxon/Willis administration has not learned the lessons of the 1990’s and the misery caused by the austerity measures of then National Finance Minister Ruth Richardson.
It' does seem to be a funny sort of stupidity afflicting our CoC. A very determined and deliberate pattern of political and economic mistakes. One that habitually favours the already wealthy owner investor types here and overseas just as fast as it degrades tax funded infrastructure of all kinds. As fast as it deprives and starts to disempower and enslave the rest of society. A stupidity that walks hand in hand with corruption.
We do seem to be extremely slow learners, continually inflicting the most immoral,cruel (& what is either stupidity or sadistic) govts, on ourselves. How anyone can vote for such people is beyond understanding. A few people have died in the UK as a result of Neo Liberal policies; it is to be hoped this country comes to its senses before that can happen here.
Yes We don't eflectively or enduringly learn political facts from political disasters sadly. Political and newsworthy Ieadership simply tells the social stories that most people prefer to believe at a given moment from what they hear. I guess that's the common abstract cornerstone of modern human societies. Sometimes the tales may seem noble, other times they really don't. Usually its a mixed bag, the tales are not the plans, and the narrator is never a hero if they claim to be one.
Great content Brian. I certainly can’t understand how we keep getting these ridiculously incompetent Governments in NZ
I totally agree!
It' does seem to be a funny sort of stupidity afflicting our CoC. A very determined and deliberate pattern of political and economic mistakes. One that habitually favours the already wealthy owner investor types here and overseas just as fast as it degrades tax funded infrastructure of all kinds. As fast as it deprives and starts to disempower and enslave the rest of society. A stupidity that walks hand in hand with corruption.
We do seem to be extremely slow learners, continually inflicting the most immoral,cruel (& what is either stupidity or sadistic) govts, on ourselves. How anyone can vote for such people is beyond understanding. A few people have died in the UK as a result of Neo Liberal policies; it is to be hoped this country comes to its senses before that can happen here.
Yes We don't eflectively or enduringly learn political facts from political disasters sadly. Political and newsworthy Ieadership simply tells the social stories that most people prefer to believe at a given moment from what they hear. I guess that's the common abstract cornerstone of modern human societies. Sometimes the tales may seem noble, other times they really don't. Usually its a mixed bag, the tales are not the plans, and the narrator is never a hero if they claim to be one.