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[Worried2Death]

I bet he’s blown a few as well

I remember him saying he got the wiring contract for the Mormon church when he was an electrician, that explains all the blazing infernos.

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

I remember him saying he got the wiring contract for the Mormon church when he was an electrician, that explains all the blazing infernos.

The stories we could tell. Like when I wired up that brothel… actually, some stories are best not put on the internet

 

[defensivebomb]

The stories we could tell. Like when I wired up that brothel… actually, some stories are best not put on the internet

That’s the day you learned the meaning of “contra”

 

[MaybeTop8]

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.

 

[MaybeTop8]

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