"Going for growth" by reducing our training pipeline.... Great idea.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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They've touted an 'export driven recovery'
This means driving down our dollar to make our products attractive on the international market.
On the flip side it makes any products that we import more expensive.
So we sacrifice the well-being of the many, to make numbers go up for the exporters.
Don't get me wrong, I know that primary industrys support many businesses and people down the chain. But when everybody is paying more for materials, products, consumables, the benefits are eaten up by the increased costs.
I liked this bit:
good Budget policy decisions that further the immediate and long-term interests of New Zealanders
The long term interests of NZ are served by reducing access to education, somehow.
Reduce access to education, eliminate the media standards. This can only go well....
It's an election year, so it will be interesting to see if they feel this is wanted by their voter base (or more importantly, swing voters).
It doesn't seem like it would be popular, but they must think it will be because they are doing it in the lead up to an election.
The long term interests of NZ are served by reducing access to education, somehow.
they've conflated NZ with conservatives.
a lack of education helps conservatives.
The long term interests of conservative governments' donors is a less educated workforce: that way they accept what they're told without critically thinking about it.
The idiots think that means lower wages for lower educated workers, without to thinking it through to to he productivity of lower educated workers.
That aside; they'll just say "good decisions that benefit [voters]" about anything they do, regardless of fact. It manufactures consent in the lesser educated populace.
The long term interests of conservative governments’ donors is a less educated workforce
That's what makes it such a great quote, it works on so many levels. It's so honest and so dishonest at the same time!
That aside; they’ll just say “good decisions that benefit [voters]” about anything they do
Yeah that's true, but I'm still going to enjoy the humour of the situation!