Lindsay Mitchell
lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com
New Zealand has always been ‘the little engine that could.’ It’s endearing imagery but also powerfully symbolic.
But thanks to our leadership and their reckless decision-making now compounded by dogmatic digging-in, we are fast becoming the little engine that couldn’t.
Today exactly what many have predicted has begun. Pharmac backtracks on a cancer drug that could have saved 1,400 lives a year because “it can no longer afford to make the investment.” In a headlong rush to save the lives of an unknown but over-stated quantity, the lives of a known number will be lost.
The economy, our very lifeblood, was all but switched off with no advice from people whose job it is to understand and appreciate its criticality. I still can’t work out why. Maybe Grant Robertson thought that New Zealand was in a relatively strong position debt-wise and he could take risks, enormous risks with it. But I am dismayed and disgusted by how many people think it’s a mere matter of switch off – switch on. Just like that. Hence their patronising chiding of the rest of us to ‘just be patient. ‘It’s only a few more days in your bubble’. Or worse, their snitching to the authorities.
Hell’s bells. Have these idiots (many deriving their security from Super or a public service salary) really thought any further than the end of their twitchy noses? They seem incapable of joining the dots beyond just A to B. Austerity will come as a rude and rough shock and they will deserve it.
Everyone of us is a domino to some degree.
Many have all ready fallen over. Tragically, today it was lung cancer patient’s turn
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.”
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