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Strypey · 5w
"The transport minister has spent much of the last year in a prolonged state of economic agony. In November, he told a roading conference that just paying for the 17 four-lane highways his party had p...
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Is anyone really surprised by this? The Nats normally give Labour-led governments 3 ordinary Parliamentary terms to raise revenue to fund necessary infrastructure maintenance and social programs. Only then do they come in to slash and burn all of that, and spend the public money thus freed up, on bribing potential campaign donors.

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Strypey · 5w
But this time Labour only got 2 terms. Most of which they had to spend dealing with a global pandemic, rather than building up a thick layer of budgetary fat for the Nats to misappropriate. With very little fat to cut, they had go straight to burning the country's lean muscle, and only 1 term into g...