Rather than spend most of the article on a critique of the Government’ major spending announcement about NZ Rail upgrades, it chose instead to focus on an unnamed heckler of two senior Cabinet ministers as they explained the need for a $600million spend on rail freight maintenance at a time of real economic hardship.
It really was an example of the Left-wing media abusing its privileged position and responsibilities for bringing the news to the masses free of editorial bias and corrupted interpretation.
I doubt there would be any person reading the headline who would thank the Press for its outrageous interception of what we need to know.
And why are we not surprised?
The MSM throughout the free world have decided it is their duty as defenders of democracy to publish important material using either a false interpretation of world events or one slanted heavily in favour of the Left-wing activists and terrorist organisations. It is as if we live in a surreal world.
Yet our political system appears unable or unwilling to halt this slide into anarchy.
Given the above, it is anybody’s guess as to whether today’s parliamentary debate about the Te Party Maori suspensions will result in a watering down of the Priviledges Committee sentences or not.
This country is in deep financial trouble and in order to have any chance of escape, it is incumbent on every one of us to examine our own views on what needs to happen next.
It will not be good enough to say we have little responsibility for past generation’s mistakes and therefore see it as someone else’s problem. The road to recovery will require an input from every man Jack resident on our part of the planet.
The time for equivocation and navel gazing is well past.
The future is what we make of it together.
Every section of society has a role to play - none more so than “able bodied” men and women capable, willing to work and prepared to make the sacrifices that are within our realm of responsibilities.
Excuse the pun but the days of free lunches (at whatever level in society) are well and truly over.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going - simple really!
A final plea to the MSM.
New Zealand is about to enter its own period of crisis and part of any positive achievements during the recovery period will be due to honest reporting of what is happening at the coalface .
There are many examples of courage under fire during our own lifetimes and the accurate reporting of those gallant heroes is now part of our folk-law.
It is the oil that keeps the wheel turning.
Let’s hope you are up to your part in a “come from behind” win..
Clive Bibby is a commentator, consultant, farmer and community leader, who lives in Tolaga Bay.
3 comments:
The 2025 NZ budget is vital to understand if the Government actually knows what reducing spending is about.
People from rural background know that it is two years from seed to payment for all living/growing things , fruit , wine, oyster, fish, lamb, beef, deer, wool and while that payment is the backbone of NZ when you are badly in debt and the bottom of the international ratings , interest compounds quicker than a rural solution.
Therefore government spending has to be slashed by a significant and courageous amount this budget , not tinkering to be nice.
MSM who??
Don't worry Clive - I don't think anybody reads or watches MSM these days....most folks realised that it was like getting your news from pravda.ru many moons ago. It's simply switched on so there's a a bit of background noise. Nobody actually pays attention to it. You'd have to be an utter moron to believe any of it.
The kids is your real worry - because the Ardern education curriculum changes ensured that the kids turned out to be utter morons. So now many of them believe the constant "woe is me message", that they're never going to be able afford anywhere to live, that everyone is poor and down trodden, and that Maori must be the poorest and most downtrodden of all.
It's reached such extremes that now these kids have to swallow the message that they are "oppressive colonialists of privilege" every time they apply for a job in any govt, and many private employers (where that private company sources its work from the government).
It's enough to make you want to tear your hair out....or leave the country - which is on the top 3 list of reasons why the brightest among them leave the country.
When you consider our media has its hands out for free money as much as any grasping iwi, what are the chances of them supporting standing on your own feet.
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