Rewriting history

The NZ Herald is running a series of extracts from a book, New Zealand as it might have been. This one is from Jon Johansson. The words are those of Jim Bolger in a speech where he rejects Ruth Richardson's budget and we all live happily ever after.

"I utterly reject having my Government driven by ideologues who know the value of nothing other than the purity of their imported theories. I completely reject these obsessed purists who put the balancing of the country's books ahead of balancing the nation's needs."

That caught my eye because it's pretty much what Richard Randerson was saying earlier in the week. As a commenter pointed out, without resources nobody's needs will be catered to.