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National have long been promising the people of New Zealand a return to surplus by the end of the 2014/15 financial year. But now Treasury are forecasting a half billion dollar deficit.
It’s the worst possible news for Finance Minister Bill English. But let’s be fair to English. Is any of this really his fault? And should we even be concerned?
Here are ten explanations, excuses or distractions Bill English might like to employ over the coming few days.
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11. We are the most up-front transparent Government ever. We could have hidden debts. We could have locked up earthquake repair money. We could have even mis-lead the people of NZ. The fact that we are so honest proves that we are excellent economic managers and the best to run NZ.
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12. Ask yourself, do you think the people of Huntly are mildly interested in what the Opposition has got to say about numbers? What people are actually interested in is housing that they can actually live in and that will make a difference for them and the fact that people are getting off welfare and into jobs and that there is something better for them and their kids down the road, and that is what this Government is focused on every minute of every day. So stick with your sideshows and think that that is winning.
13. Surplus. It’s clearly just a slogan. You know, like “100% Pure NZ”. These are just words, not real things. Nobody really believes anything that politicians say. We just say things because that’s what you do. Ultimately, people should really listen to what we say or ‘promise’, they should just ask themselves, who would you rather have a beer with? Who says fun things about their cat? Who grins like an idiot and says funny stuff when people are being all stuffy and serious about running the country? That’s us. National. That’s why we’re awesome.
14. I’m optimistic that we are still on target to meet the surplus. The forecasts fail to take into account our plan to let Mom and Pop investors buy a piece of their very own Superfund. We’re planning to float 49% of the fund in February 2015 and expect to raise at least 2.5 billion dollars. In order to prevent foreign interests crowding out Mom and Pop investors, we have decided to use a closed registration process with minimum buy-in of 1 million dollars, this ensures it is a fair process for everyone.
We can flog off the state houses to our friends and property developers at cheap prices, should raise 1 billion. We can cut hospital budgets (already done) – get rid of jobs in government, privatize Wellington council by calling it amalgamation into a super city and then sell off the council assets. (Now John Banks is being retried of corruption thanks to those hard of hearing US businessmen he could be relocated or Rodney Hide would be good). We can then put it into Mark Mitchells Mercenary funds when we keep people busy on the constant threat of Terrorism and invasion of Iraq. Lucky it is all bad news and after the US and UK and 13 years of fighting ‘terror’ the attacks seem to be getting worse. Great!
Keep those greenhouse gases going so when Labour finally get in, the economy is so tanked they can blame it on them and keep their ‘record’ of managing the economy untarnished.
Keep the compliant MSM in their pocket profiting from all the dirty deals. It’s great how the MSM don’t even realize with no middle and poor Kiwi’s buying their papers anymore, Brisco’s and Farmers and The Warehouse don’t really have any reason to advertise there so readership and advertising down.
Make sure all the new immigrants pay donations to National to keep the party going. Farmland is so cheap here! We have Sky city to launder all the money!
Gosh this state of NZ is just like the 1980’s but even worse! And Whinny must retire some time so no one left to keep anyone honest. And of course just like the 1980’s blame it on the evil beneficiaries. Note to self, cut their benefits even more just like the Mother of All Budgets!
He must have got his inspiration for this one by listening to Abbott talk about breaking election promises.
“We’re not afraid to make the tough calls. The fact that we have the courage to break such a fundamental election promise just proves we are absolutely the right party to lead New Zealand.”
15. We will enter into public/private partnership agreements to release the vast untapped potential of our under utilized real estate.
Disney wants to turn Milford Sound into a water theme park.
The US Marines want to lease 90 Mile Beach to practice amphibious landings.
We have offers to sell the Auckland Domain for condominiums, offices, a shopping mall and six levels of underground Wilson Parking to solve Auckland’s parking problems.
The Chinese Navy wants to buy Great Barrier Island because Port Fitzroy harbor is an excellent deep water port.
Several drug companies have asked us to rent out our prison population for medical experiments but some Maori tribes are objecting. They don’t appreciate the importance of making money.