Some of the clearest commentary this election has been coming from CTU economist Craig Renney.
Yesterday he helpfully translated the ACT party’s shiny campaign words into their meaning in the real world. You know — that place where work done by the public service keeps the wheels turning so that the private sector can go about its valuable work of putting rockets into orbit, tomatoes into supermarkets and drinkers into hospital.
Bizarre, really, this perception that is so readily embraced: that a floor full of people in Air New Zealand sitting at desks and looking at monitors and answering telephones can be so readily distinguished as better, more worthy, more useful, than a floor full of people at the Immigration department sitting at desks and looking at monitors and answering telephones.
