Well, you would be wrong. Former Labour Finance Minister Michael Cullen became Chair of NZ Post when he bailed from Parliament and Grant Robertson is off to be Vice Chancellor of Otago University on $629,000 per year. Meanwhile former PM Dame Helen Clark went to the United Nations, whilst Ardern is shacked up at Harvard with its $NZ 50 billion endowment, talking with Prince William about Earthshot prizes. How ironic they campaigned on inequality, and argued that the rich should pay more tax, when UN employees pay no tax, as does Harvard, being deemed a Charity for tax purposes. The question arises - are these folks champagne socialists?
A recent incident at Auckland Airport captures the hypocrisy of it all. Last week Dame Helen passed through & became dismayed at the sight of the writhing throngs of humanity, sweltering & queueing for hours - the ones languishing with cattle class tickets - the types who suffer the indignity of having to turn right when they enter the door of the plane - down to the back where the stinky air settles - together with the crying babies. What was Dame Helen's reaction?
“My heart sank because I was able, you know, with the Business Class ticket to go to the express lane, but there was this queue that just snaked all over, you know, around by the shops and so on, and just barely shuffling, and I thought it would be extremely distressing.”
Yes, Helen, the sight of the barely shuffling masses without Business Class tickets is distressing. Better not to look.
Sources
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/auckland-airport-denies-queues-are-getting-worse-as-former-pm-hits-out/LGHF6WZNAVGFRICSQO4CM37BB4/
A recent incident at Auckland Airport captures the hypocrisy of it all. Last week Dame Helen passed through & became dismayed at the sight of the writhing throngs of humanity, sweltering & queueing for hours - the ones languishing with cattle class tickets - the types who suffer the indignity of having to turn right when they enter the door of the plane - down to the back where the stinky air settles - together with the crying babies. What was Dame Helen's reaction?
“My heart sank because I was able, you know, with the Business Class ticket to go to the express lane, but there was this queue that just snaked all over, you know, around by the shops and so on, and just barely shuffling, and I thought it would be extremely distressing.”
Yes, Helen, the sight of the barely shuffling masses without Business Class tickets is distressing. Better not to look.
Sources
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/auckland-airport-denies-queues-are-getting-worse-as-former-pm-hits-out/LGHF6WZNAVGFRICSQO4CM37BB4/
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
Brilliant Rob.
First class hypocrites.
They have a red carpet future ahead - no soup kitchens, no war torn countries, no abandoned orphans, no destroyed OECD-level economy ( as is the NZ case). Having created the ghastly chaos (=their only talent) , they sail onward and upward to reap the Mega Bucks. Crocodile tears and skin.
Meanwhile the dangerous gullible and gushing public continues to adore them and dutifully votes in their next (equally pathetic) generation.
It has always been thus.
This time, let us take charge and use our citizen - as in Switzerland. Let us rise to the occasion.
A real challenge - and great fun.
You'd think they'd have, at the very least, a modicum of shame.
Forcing their economically broken socialist policies on the population, leaving us almost always financially worse off, then taking a job with a huge salary, while often paying little or no tax.
Clearly, the progressive part of socialism only applies to the elites who always seem to come out of their own shit-show smelling of roses.
There are many ways to the top. It normally takes hard work, learning to go without, stick ability laced with a degree of risk. Failure is waiting around every corner. In contrast there is the political avenue to the top. Failure is immaterial where a solid salary and a generous pension is guaranteed. Lucrative posts and positions await failed politicians who become so far removed from everyday reality.
Insulated from public loathing, these cretins seek redemption through managed media releases or surround themselves with their own kind to help bury the truth of their failures.
- and yes DeeM - what about the Maori elite with their vast wealth , while daily we read of the abject poverty of their humbler relations. But of course Maori never claimed to be socialist before the Northerners arrived.
At least she noticed and was not contemptuous. I wonder what many of the modern elite think in the same position.
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