Oh my god!!!

If you had any doubt what this Election was about, Steve Maharey has just cleared it up for us all on the Labour website. Here is a quote from his newsletter:

"But then the National Party does not want any of these things. It wants a future where people make their own decisions about their own money."

You simply could not make this up! He actually said it. If you think I am kidding click here to go to the Labour website and see for yourself.

A redistributionist nanny state that makes beneficiaries out of ordinary hard working folk, or a place where working hard is rewarded? Spare me the cuts to public services and borrowing to fund it line as well - it is the same money we are talking about. The only difference is taking it and drip feeding it back (losing a truckload through the redistribution process) - or taking less in the first place. Simple.

Maharey has just exactingly defined the fact that Labour is dominated by academics; well meaning idealogues with no faith in the average New Zealander's ability to look after themselves.

Michael Savage had a vision of a society where there was a 'saftey net' that would support those that could not look after themselves. I support that completely - what decent person wouldn't. But don't you think things might have gone just a little too far in the past six years?