Why?
The axe is falling on the public service, with major job cuts looming in the weeks and months ahead.
As of May 6, Stuff had confirmed that 3925 roles* have been – or are proposed to be – disestablished, as part of the cost savings drive.
This week, Stuff has updates on cuts at MBIE.
The latest proposal comes from the Ministry of Education, where a further 190 roles are likely to be disestablished. In total, 755 roles are set to be disestablished at that ministry.
Stuff
See what I mean; the rest of the article is a rolling score of the cuts in various departments. They have never done this for the private sector, so why the sudden interest in breathlessly reporting public service job cuts?
Is it because they believe that we care about the job losses?
Hard to know, but sure as hell I don’t. In fact, I believe they can cut harder and deeper. I’m astonished that so far they’ve only axed 4000 jobs.
I also believe that most taxpayers will be supportive of the government axing public service jobs held by privileged fat cats who have been taking the piss at the expense of the taxpayer for far too long.
Ronald Reagan once said in 1986, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.'”
And that’s the rub. Most people’s interactions with government departments and their staff are largely negative. Ask any parent who has had Oranga Tamariki become interested in their family. Ask anyone who is a tenant of Kainga Ora and being terrorised by other KO tenants. And ask anyone in the freedom community or the firearms community about what they think of the Police.
Yes, we think these cuts are brilliant, don’t go far enough, and media outlets like Stuff don’t reflect how we think on almost any issue.
Which is why we also cheer and celebrate anytime these legacy media outlets falter and stumble towards bankruptcy.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. Cam blogs regularly on the BFD - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
I suspect that this is as close as it gets to insightful analysis at Stuff. On that basis their 6pm news bulletins on the telly are going to be must watch viewing - not.
Don't trust MSM any more than I trust Putin.
Of interest is the public service were asked / instructed to reduce costs.
The quickest way to start that process is staff redundancies.
Look at us, we are making a difference.
Trouble is, if they can get rid of people that quickly, they obviously weren't needed in the first place. There is more scope and need to continue the process.
Unfortunately the cost of redundancies will be very large in money terms.
Most, if not all will have redundancy package in their contracts. Long service people will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Why don't MSM report these aspects?
Cam completely agree. These cuts are not going far enough. The public service is still bloated far more than 2017 even taking the 4000 cuts into consideration.
Yep the majority want this, we need to get the country back on track after 6 years of chaos and incompetence.
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