The Health Minister, who shouldn't have had to, intervened in their submission to the district council looking at the application for McDonald's in Wanaka.
Why was the health service offering a submission? Because the council asked them to.
So who is more at fault (the answer is of course both of them), the council for creating work and waste, or the service for creative work and waste?
The health service, among other things, talk of health. They talked of health in the wildest of contexts, like the World Health Organisation context, which essentially means anything can be dragged into the health sphere if you are determined.
And my word, were they determined.
They won't be in future because Shane Reti told them to stop wasting everyone's time.
The irony of the outcome is the submission wasn’t even correct, hinting perhaps that these people have little, if any, knowledge of what they are actually doing and simply fill their days with pointless exercises.
They sighted Te Tiriti of course. What Te Tiriti has to do with fries and a chocolate shake, I have no idea, and I suspect they don’t either. But that is why all this is so criminal.
Te Tiriti is everywhere for no particular purpose. Its overreach has reached the point of absurdity.
The health service, among other things, talk of health. They talked of health in the wildest of contexts, like the World Health Organisation context, which essentially means anything can be dragged into the health sphere if you are determined.
And my word, were they determined.
They won't be in future because Shane Reti told them to stop wasting everyone's time.
The irony of the outcome is the submission wasn’t even correct, hinting perhaps that these people have little, if any, knowledge of what they are actually doing and simply fill their days with pointless exercises.
They sighted Te Tiriti of course. What Te Tiriti has to do with fries and a chocolate shake, I have no idea, and I suspect they don’t either. But that is why all this is so criminal.
Te Tiriti is everywhere for no particular purpose. Its overreach has reached the point of absurdity.
Mike's Minute: Macca's - Why all the whinging Wanaka?
So hundreds of submissions, days of hearing, the Treaty and a Government department admonished by the minister. That is why nothing gets done and that is why the country is in the state it is.
These people want to sell a hamburger. They want to employ locals, they want to contribute to the growth of the community and they want to pay their tax.
They simply want to do business.
Why is the industry and apparatus in not doing business so vast, so complicated, so expensive and so wasteful?
And who is blowing it up?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
So hundreds of submissions, days of hearing, the Treaty and a Government department admonished by the minister. That is why nothing gets done and that is why the country is in the state it is.
These people want to sell a hamburger. They want to employ locals, they want to contribute to the growth of the community and they want to pay their tax.
They simply want to do business.
Why is the industry and apparatus in not doing business so vast, so complicated, so expensive and so wasteful?
And who is blowing it up?
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
4 comments:
I grew up in Porirua East and in my particular suburb everyone (apart from the Chinese and Indians) were either beneficiaries or public servants. Businesses were seen as evil. Private enterprise was regarded as capitalism and all based on greed. Farmers and businessman were the enemy. This was the ideology of the public servants then and it seems little has changed. Ironically, Porirua was the carefully chosen location for the first McDonald's restaurant in NZ.
I like the comment by Mike Hosking -[quote] - "These people want to sell a hamburger. They want to employ locals..."[end quote] - my response to Mr Hoskings - "If the people of Wanaka do not want McDonald's on their door step - more power to them to stop the process".
Why should we allow the American owners of a Multi Corporate, International Industrial Fast Food outlet step on "toes to get what they want (which they will) - not what every one requires/desires and/or needs".
Why do New Zealanders see an opportunity here and establish a similar business within Wanaka?
I am not a "fan of the food they sell", very overrated.
But in today's world "beggars can not be choosers", just if you buy McDonald's product "can you please put the food wrappers & paper bags in a rubbish bin, not in the gutter"!
I have mixed feelings on this one...we keep hearing about our obesity problem (1 in 3, a shocking statistic) and the fast food industry is part of it. Note all the ads on free to air tv. Maccas isn’t the only culprit of course, and no one is forced to eat what passes for food there. In this example it does sound like bureaucratic overreach.
At least two decades ago I heard an American cardiologist speaking at a medical conference. Someone asked him his thoughts on the growing proliferation of US-branded fast food outlets in NZ...he shrugged and replied “Well, if people here want to live like Americans, they will die like them too”. Quite.
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