Originally Posted by
elZorro
Craic, surely not all your bets turn out winners? :) I know of one in particular that didn't, but I think you've done fine out of that area overall.
Of course I made an omission in the previous post. National has a third way of making their problems go away for the meantime - do some more borrowing on the taxpayer credit card. After all, we are not yet the world's most indebted nation. We're average, or better than average. This ignores the fact that when Labour left office, old Crown debts were almost completely repaid. The Labour government had led the way by showing that in the good times, it's a sensible idea to pay down old debt. National are acting like NZ Crown assets are something that should be shared out to current taxpayers or bystanders, some being more deserving than others, until there is nothing of net value left.
Winston Peters and Andrew Little were on Q&A this morning, mainly covering the dairy situation. Winston called Federated Farmers out for backing the National Govt no matter what, when they should be backing their members - who as it turns out - are farmers. Winston should get some more rural votes for his plain speaking, and it doesn't sound like he's on National's side of the fence at the moment.