Monday, May 23, 2005
Scare tactics
It has become evident since the Budget (nothing was evident in the Budget) that the government's plan is to 'scare' voters via the tax cuts issue. They will say "You can vote for Labour and be sure of proper Health, Education...etc or you can vote National/Act and return to the 'dark days' of tax cuts, public service cuts, beneficiary cuts blah blah blah.. ".
The question the voters should ask themselves is this: Do they have confidence in the ex governer of the Reserve Bank, a man who presided over floating mortgage interest rates reducing from 15% to 7% during his reign? Do they think two economists know what they are doing (Hide and Key)? Let's not forget John Tamihere described Key as 'very smart' and Tamihere said he could easily sleep at night knowing 'Key was in charge'.
Or would they rather trust a left-wing teacher/historian? A man with no deputy.
The answers are obvious.
UPDATE: I was on the button. This from Jordan today:
"what do people want? Higher interest rates and Muldoonist borrowing? Or higher social spending while saving for the future"?
Jordan - what are interest rates now? Who is doing the saving? Not us, it's the bloody gummint!
The question the voters should ask themselves is this: Do they have confidence in the ex governer of the Reserve Bank, a man who presided over floating mortgage interest rates reducing from 15% to 7% during his reign? Do they think two economists know what they are doing (Hide and Key)? Let's not forget John Tamihere described Key as 'very smart' and Tamihere said he could easily sleep at night knowing 'Key was in charge'.
Or would they rather trust a left-wing teacher/historian? A man with no deputy.
The answers are obvious.
UPDATE: I was on the button. This from Jordan today:
"what do people want? Higher interest rates and Muldoonist borrowing? Or higher social spending while saving for the future"?
Jordan - what are interest rates now? Who is doing the saving? Not us, it's the bloody gummint!
