ImperatorFish: Key’s Secret Super Plans

Written By: - Date published: 2:43 pm, June 1st, 2012 - 5 comments
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Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.

Why does John Key appear so confident that we are not facing a future superannuation crisis?

Young people are fleeing the country in such numbers that soon there will be mostly just the elderly left, with their only companions being the finance company directors to fleece them of their life savings.

And who will look after them? In time most aged care workers will have departed the industry in search of wages that are less demeaning.

It seems unlikely that the government would allow a cull of the elderly, due to the usual complaints from liberal hand-wringers.

So where are the solutions to the problems caused by an ageing population? John Key refuses to consider looking at the retirement age, a decision that seems as stupidly short-sighted as it is politically cynical.

However, it pays to remember that John Key knows more than we do about what the future holds, thanks to his time in the finance world, shifting money about the globe and doing deals. If there’s one thing Key understands it is how to predict where a market is headed.

It is therefore almost certain that Key has a few aces up his sleeve for the day when the Super bomb drops on us.

What could they be? My picks:

  • There’s a huge oil reserve sitting somewhere out there, and Key knows where it is. He’s keeping quiet about it for the time being because he knows that the mad socialists, if they win the next election, will go nuts and spend it all on frivolous things like education, alleviating poverty, and public transport.
  • The next two decades will see staggering demand for our nation’s goods and services, leading to huge windfalls to our farmers, who will all spontaneously decide to pay more tax rather than pour most of their earnings into increasing the value of their capital.
  • A particular virulent influenza strain will arrive, wiping out tens of thousands of elderly folk. There’s no way Key can know this, but a major pandemic is overdue, so it’s a safe bet. If there’s a swine flu futures market you can bet John Key’s got it cornered.
  • Government scientists have worked out a secret formula to pick the winning number in any lottery worldwide. Forget about our own Lotto, which is pocket-money compared with some overseas contests. A jackpot win in the EuroMillions or Mega Millions lottery could probably fund NZ Super for a month.
  • Treasury officials have privately confirmed to the PM that the world will end on 21 December 2012. John Key has accepted the inevitability of our world’s destruction, which is why he remains so relaxed about matters that should be keeping him sleepless.
The alternative to all of the above is that Key just doesn’t want to do anything that might court unpopularity, that he’s happy just being a manager rather than a leader, and that he doesn’t care very much about the burden our young people will face in twenty or thirty years.
Or the world really is going to end on December 21.

5 comments on “ImperatorFish: Key’s Secret Super Plans ”

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  1. BLiP 1
    1 June 2012 at 2:55 pm

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    December 25, 2014

    Having a wonderful time since moving, you should see the Hawaiin sunsets . . . oh, yeah, youse can’t even afford to bury yourselves . . . ha ha.

    Love John.

  2. Pete George 2
    1 June 2012 at 4:18 pm

    Or the world really is going to end on December 21.

    Unlikley, I saw recently someone found another old Mayan calendar that went for longer than this year, maybe Key hasn’t been told.

    Join a blogger campaign to advance debate about super solutions – combined BADASS

  3. ianmac 3
    1 June 2012 at 4:59 pm

    – John Key has sold 49% of New Zealand to the Chinese Government for $100 Billion, and only sought 10% as Commission with the takeover geared to be actioned the day after the New Years Queens Honours List.

  4. Dr Terry 4
    1 June 2012 at 7:47 pm

    We must know by now that Key thinks (sorry, bad word for him) only of selfish short term “solutions”. We will deal with the outcomes when he is safely ensconced in his Hawaiian Mansion.Better than Aussie, eh?

    • Ee 4.1
      3 June 2012 at 3:18 pm

      Don’t sell the man short Terry, John Key thinks.
      Most of his supporters don’t, but he certainly does. To lump him in with his supporters who have no idea what his policies really do is not what he deserves, in any way.

      It is an unfair insult to his intelligence to say that he actually believes that they key to ending a recession is to slash and cut until the wealth “trickles down”. He knows full well what his policies mean, they mean more for him and his, less for everyone else.

      The real problem is the people who vote for them. Luckily, granting education to the ignorant is not quite as hard as granting human decency to the amoral psychopath.

      It is of course, completely unrelated that right wingers always seek to destroy education as much as possible.