My favourite right wing lie at the moment is that National are ‘centre right’. That can only be true if Caligula is the centre. Let’s count the ways in which Key is hard right and not center right… -Private prisons -Adopting Charter Schools from a political party with 1% of the vote -270 000 children in poverty -Yawning chasm of inequality between the haves and the have nots -Privatizing public assets for the benefit of the 2.5% who bought them -Retrospective legislation legalizing Police surveillance in the largest erosion of civil liberties since the ’51 waterfront lockout. -Allowing the GCSB to spy on NZers -Disqualifying tens of thousands from welfare under the guise of ‘getting them jobs’. -Beneficiary bashing as social welfare -Billions in tax cuts to the richest NZers while cutting tax breaks for the poor -Killing off public broadcasting -Restricting university education to the rich -Arresting students at the border -Forcing mothers back to work after second child turns 1 -Hundreds of millions in corporate welfare while those on welfare rot -Privatizing state homes -Crushing Ecan local democracy for farming interests -Legislation for big oil to criminalize Greenpeace -Walking away from meaningful global warming reform -Pointless Union crushing policy just for the sake of crushing unions -Manufacturing a crisis at The Hobbit to attack Unions with -Cutting shonky crony capitalism deals with Sky City -Using urgency to ram through more legislation without democratic oversight than any other Government before him
Posted on: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:21:30 +0000
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