One is their defence of pretending things aren't what they are. Another is their ideological arrogance based on no real-world experience.
There was an op-ed piece by one of the medical unions calling Andrew Little angry.
"The return of angry Andrew," they said. It was a response to his ongoing denial that hospitals and healthcare in general were coping okay, despite the avalanche of evidence to the contrary.
It's a trait. Given the media these days by-in-large don’t dig or disseminate, they simply reprint responses. The Government has worked out that by simply saying something isn't happening, they will get that headline and hope for the best.
The economy is cooking with gas. Or alternatively, everyone has inflation and it’s the war. Hospitals are coping fine. I reject the premise of that question. That one is applicable to virtually anything.
Then we have the ideology. It began with the fruit picking and lack of labour during lockdown. The line was there was no shortage of workers you just had to pay more.
To be fair to the Government, that, to some limited degree, seems to have worked.
Before the inflation crisis wages were rising. But the irony of that, of course, is eventually it merely added to the inflation crisis. Because the increased of cost of those wages were merely passed onto the consumer. Hence inflation, hence the call for more wage increases, and round and round we are still going.
But what makes these calls particularly egregious is they are made by people like Chris Hipkins, Michael Wood, and Grant Robertson who have never run a business in their lives. They wouldn’t have a clue how to be successful in hospitality or an orchard because they have never owned one. They have never owned anything outside a degree and a union membership.
People who have had their world tipped upside down by Covid rules and regulations that are now quite clearly coming back to haunt us in so many ways, economic and psychological, are being lectured by theorists.
They tell people what to do based on something they read in a library. If that doesn’t work, they deny any of its happening.
That is our New Zealand in 2022 and you wonder why the confidence levels are where they are.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings.
The economy is cooking with gas. Or alternatively, everyone has inflation and it’s the war. Hospitals are coping fine. I reject the premise of that question. That one is applicable to virtually anything.
Then we have the ideology. It began with the fruit picking and lack of labour during lockdown. The line was there was no shortage of workers you just had to pay more.
To be fair to the Government, that, to some limited degree, seems to have worked.
Before the inflation crisis wages were rising. But the irony of that, of course, is eventually it merely added to the inflation crisis. Because the increased of cost of those wages were merely passed onto the consumer. Hence inflation, hence the call for more wage increases, and round and round we are still going.
But what makes these calls particularly egregious is they are made by people like Chris Hipkins, Michael Wood, and Grant Robertson who have never run a business in their lives. They wouldn’t have a clue how to be successful in hospitality or an orchard because they have never owned one. They have never owned anything outside a degree and a union membership.
People who have had their world tipped upside down by Covid rules and regulations that are now quite clearly coming back to haunt us in so many ways, economic and psychological, are being lectured by theorists.
They tell people what to do based on something they read in a library. If that doesn’t work, they deny any of its happening.
That is our New Zealand in 2022 and you wonder why the confidence levels are where they are.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings.
5 comments:
This cult is not only "out of touch from the real world", they are completely out of touch with reality. It is definitely a case of continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result. If they expect the rational voters to continue to accept their corruption, nepotism, propaganda and complete inability to achieve any meaningful progress on anything positive, they are about to receive a rude awakening. They may want to have a chat to a Tukaki or two for a few pointers on putting a shine on their CVs.
Spot on Mike. Dim-witted & delusional as only Comrade Ardern & her cadre of clowns could be.
Keep up the good work Mike , spot on as usual . Nice to hear you keeping upto date with all of the underhanded goings on by this separatist divisive and racist government.
They are so up themselves they are believing their own lies. They have all but destroyed our New Zealand and will have by next election.
There must be a way to rid of them from Govt now.
Please can someone find a way................
Labour is the most racial,non democratic, bunch of liers, dirty dealers and untrustworthy Govt ever to hold office. Keep up the good work Mike
Newstalk ZB seem to be the only media holding Labour to account......
I was told recently that aliens recently have been searching for "intelligent " life on earth, they searched all of NZ but couldn't find any.
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