Friday, February 22, 2008

Utter hypocrisy

What a hypocrite Jim Anderton is. Here he is attacking National for promising an interest free loan to the meat export industry (quite right too);

"...And it [National] won’t say if it intends to use taxpayers’ money to subsidise our most important export companies, which we need to be successful in their own right.”

Hang on. What about Creative New Zealand and their looonnng list of grants? The Ministry of Economic Development with all their hand-outs to business? Why doesn't he apply his logic and indignation to all those beneficiaries who also "need to be successful in their own right"?

Mr Anderton is on very shaky ground here. He shows he understands the principle of letting enterprises fail or succeed on their own merit but only applies it when it suits his political purposes.

This is the kind of absurdity we will have to endure this year while leftists try to defend their patch against the marauding copy-cat National party.

6 comments:

Kevin said...

No Lindsay I would have to disagree about National (jim isn't worth the effort).

All rational party's policies should be to do awy with all these handouts and subsidies and CREATE THE RIGHT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS FOR PEOPLE AND COMPANIES TO DO IT THEMSLEVES. (I see a very frosy friday coming up, not!)

thats why we suffered in the 80s, only for our children to go throuigh it all again.

Lindsay Mitchell said...

You have no disagreement from me Kevin. Perhaps I didn't explain myself clearly. I didn't intend that National are right to extend a subsidy. Anderton was right to criticise it. But he is utterly inconsistent in the process.

Anonymous said...

If it needs subsidising it needs leaving alone to die off because its not valued enough by people to voluntarily support with their own money.National are Socialist losers...indeed bigger losers than Labour who at least belive their dogmatic evil,irrational crap....National are just cowardly vote whores...

Kevin said...

Yep Lindsay, NZers are subsidy Junkies. what is it with our national addiction?

Anonymous said...

The same useless Jim Anderton who was keen to grant money to Hubbard Foods (owned by Auckland's former mayor).

This dinosaur is well past his use by date. Time to send him to a retirement home, although his electorate might disagree with me. Ah, the beauty of democracy.

Anonymous said...

I have a feeling right now would be a
great time to open up the books on Creative New Zealand. So the average Kiwi worker can see what their taxes are funding.