One thing that I will ping National on is that some Ministers (Joyce, Smith, and even English at the moment (which is a shame)) thinking only on one dimensional terms rather than three dimensional terms.
I do not know what it is with Centre Right Parties here, Australia, the USA, and the UK when it comes to the difference between physical and social infrastructure. They can see physical infrastructure no problem but social infrastructure it seems they can not simply understand for the life of them.
Social infrastructure is as critically important as the physical infrastructure. If you lack the Social Infrastructure at State level we return to the Classic Liberal era of 19th Century Britain and the wild economic swings that would bring about Social Liberalism and the Welfare State up until the 1990’s.
Let me put it in a final form. A society that disconnect will prompt civil unrest and later wars. History has shown that to us again and again.
Time for National to take a history less fast.
One of the key responsibilities of incumbent upon Government is the provision of infrastructure.
This includes building railways roads, hospitals, power grids and policing, which forms an intrinsic part of our social infrastructure.
This government has been big on building.
It has spent unprecedented amounts of money on building transport infrastructure, things such as roads and railway lines as it sees these things, quite rightly, as the arteries, veins and capillaries of the New Zealand Economy. This is well and good, but over the last six years the National Government and its allies, which include the Maori Party, has consistently failed to acknowledge the historic and contemporary under-investment in social infrastructure.
To answer a question that the Government has only just noticed, but has been around for decades, Bill English has announce that the Government is looking to sell state houses. The logic seems to be that selling state houses…
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