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Crap….. Watercare alone is worth over $14 billion and is spending an extra $1 billion for additional infrastructure this financial year and has obtained bank funding for an additional $3.4 billion for new infrastructure for the following three years. Watercares long term plan is to spend over $11 billion over ten years. Yet. the previous government provided $2.5 billion for 3 Waters to be set up and for the first five years of infrastructure over the entire country. WaterCare alone would have taken twice that amount.

When will you realise that both the major parties underfund things…. and when there’s a change of government, the old blame the new for not making the funding available. Case in point, roading infrastructure vs Auckland light rail.

2018 and then mayor Goff and transport minister Phil Goff announced the Auckland Transport Alignment Project 2018 which had a budget of $28 billion for transport infrastructure including light rail in Auckland. Fast forward to now and, with the exception of the Auckland Light Rail project, most of the projects in the report have been completed. So, Auckland Council, along with central government funding, have completed or near completed will over $20 billion transport infrastructure in seven years.

Yet, the current government’s RoNS, for a cost of $30 billion over twenty years for the entire country is going to “bankrupt the country” but one city having 2/3s of that amount hasn’t.

It’s all politics….. underfund something, blame the previous government, create a crisis…. and then tax people more or cut costs or sell assets, or privatise services…. all in the name of not accepting their own failures.

Oh, and it’s not just a neoliberal thing…. It’s been going on for decades. The Auckland Harbour bridge was originally going to have as many as six lanes according to the 1946 Royal Commission but was cut back. Robbie’s planned light rail system from 1972 scrapped.

These happened years before neolib policies of Thatcher, Reagan and Bolger (and, too a lesser extent, Douglas).
Your original comments were about the stealing of assets. Which wasn't ever happening.
 
The next manufactured crisis, setting us up for more privatisation, is education.

These moves are in play right now. Erica Stanford's hard right curriculum.

Pressure on schools to conform to something that is deliberately out of reach.

Opening public schools up for takeover.

This is the right. This is who they are.

Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.
 
The next manufactured crisis, setting us up for more privatisation, is education.
Schools themselves were abandoning NCEA and universities and workplaces said it was not developing the necessary skills.

‘A 2023 NZQA survey revealed that 25 percent of schools were not planning to offer a full NCEA Level 1 programme, with many high-performing schools abandoning it altogether.

Between 2023 and 2024, Cambridge International Education reported a 20 percent increase in students taking its exams, with 8000 pupils across a quarter of New Zealand's high schools now doing Cambridge qualifications.’

And if you think this is manufactured, check out our slide down the international Pisa rankings.

So now if you want to make up misinformation about manufactured crisis, back it up with data (not hearsay).

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Great to see the hard right recidivist of Tauranga endorsing privatisation. At least you've publicly come out
I don’t care about inputs, I care about outputs.

You can get all tied up in who owns what, I just want to make NZ better with whatever works.

Ps I’ve said before Health and education should be majority publicly run. But the public system also need to deliver…
 
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