Originally Posted by
Aaron
Adrian Orr was rewarded for this massive and expensive mistake with another 5 year term at $800,000pa. I suppose this was because the only people to look more stupid than Adrian were Grant and Jacinda.
The $34million seems like a lot to me for a biennial festival especially if it has previously successfully operated at only one tenth of this funding, maybe Grant is trying to buy back the Maori seats after Meka Whaitiri's defection. Be interesting to know how the $34mill gets broken down and whether this is money well spent.
Spending like this makes voting difficult. You know we need taxpayers to cough up for infrastructure spending but then Grant tries to buy himself the Maori vote with our money. No wonder the taxpayers are only looking at what is in it for ME when they can see clear examples of Grant's largesse if he thinks it will buy him crucial votes.
Regarding the $5 prescription subsidy, I read it was removed because 135,000 prescriptions were not picked up because of cost. I hope someone checks this statistic a year after the subsidies go. As a miserable cynical btard I suspect you will find that the 135,000 does not change much as although there will be some genuine cases of hardship I suspect most of those missed prescriptions is because someone could not be fu*ked getting off their ar*e to get it. As they can just get another one when it suits them. They would not care about wasting doctors and pharmacists time as it is cheap and now free (to them anyway).