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.
Another great interview even though pretty depressing makes me super angry that people have voted in these bunch of incompetent aholes the damage they are causing is very distressing.
Thanks for a sensible voice. Unbelievable that the so called economists who talk about these things on mainstream radio and in mainstream press (if such things still exist) have couched the desperately bad figures in terms of "maybe good cause now interest rates will come down". They seem indoctrinated with the ideological monetary profit making dogma that you have refered to.
Thank you both for this. Sensible voices in amongst this whitewash of unprecedented impact that is not being reported on. And thank you for the acknowledgement of increased mental issues under poverty. As a probation officer for 20 years and then retraining as psychotherapist these are issues close to my heart.
The question of an intentional versus ignorant economic and informational wrecking ball should not be lightly or politely treated (Susan): we may like USA have reached the "sado-neoliberal" stage of the oligarchy as it strategically deploys and manipulates radical right populism from the cloudlands of its detached entitled uncommon wealth. The failure to underwrite neighbourhood-based eco-psychosocial rehabilitation such as the Clubhouse model or art therapy such as Te Ara Korowai (Raumati), and leaving the severely mentally disturbed to sink, self-isolatibg and madly alone in their rented hovel like a denizen in extreme suffering. In hell, actually. Local rehab opportunities could enable whānau and services to be more involved and to offer appropriately-skilled psychotherapists to help restore the broken whare of the body, spirit, mind/heart and whānau. I discern a strange parallel between the persectory delusions of our most abandoned whanāunga and the planned effusions of the Atlas cult and its
associated millennial cults and sundry nihilist orcs.
Another great interview even though pretty depressing makes me super angry that people have voted in these bunch of incompetent aholes the damage they are causing is very distressing.
So very sad .. It's ,'I Daniel Blake ' all over again .. The absolute cruelty of it ..
Thanks to the people like you Bryan and Susan . 👍
Meri Kirihimete Bryan,
These head to heads are my favourite!
Please take time out to chill & decompress these holidays.
Thank you Cristina Meri Kirihimete to you too. Best wishes, Bryan
Thanks for a sensible voice. Unbelievable that the so called economists who talk about these things on mainstream radio and in mainstream press (if such things still exist) have couched the desperately bad figures in terms of "maybe good cause now interest rates will come down". They seem indoctrinated with the ideological monetary profit making dogma that you have refered to.
fantastic interview, Bryan. thanks so much for sharing Susan's thoughtful and important commentary with all of us on Substack.
Thank you both for this. Sensible voices in amongst this whitewash of unprecedented impact that is not being reported on. And thank you for the acknowledgement of increased mental issues under poverty. As a probation officer for 20 years and then retraining as psychotherapist these are issues close to my heart.
The question of an intentional versus ignorant economic and informational wrecking ball should not be lightly or politely treated (Susan): we may like USA have reached the "sado-neoliberal" stage of the oligarchy as it strategically deploys and manipulates radical right populism from the cloudlands of its detached entitled uncommon wealth. The failure to underwrite neighbourhood-based eco-psychosocial rehabilitation such as the Clubhouse model or art therapy such as Te Ara Korowai (Raumati), and leaving the severely mentally disturbed to sink, self-isolatibg and madly alone in their rented hovel like a denizen in extreme suffering. In hell, actually. Local rehab opportunities could enable whānau and services to be more involved and to offer appropriately-skilled psychotherapists to help restore the broken whare of the body, spirit, mind/heart and whānau. I discern a strange parallel between the persectory delusions of our most abandoned whanāunga and the planned effusions of the Atlas cult and its
associated millennial cults and sundry nihilist orcs.
With many thanks to Brysn and Susan for their lucid and caring kōrero