The government’s proposals for fairly minor mergers of government departments brought an odd response this morning from Brenda Pilott, head of the bureaucrats' union the PSA, who was quoted this morning on Radio NZ saying she does not oppose mergers or amalgamations "for logical reasons, just to save money."
As if to say that it would be illogical to save taxpayers’ money.
Revealing, don’t you think.
UPDATE: The NBR has some disappointing news.
“Mr Key said he had seen nothing in official papers so far that indicated the Ministry of Women's Affairs and the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs would be disbanded.”
I sure hope he’s only been skim reading.
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The women's affair is a key part of of Key's constituency: http://johnansell.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/the-widening-tasman-wage-gap-aka-the-john-key-credibility-gap/
If everyone saved, an no one spent a dime, there would be a lot of unhappy retailers out there.. We need a healthy amount of spending to keep the machine rolling! :)
@Michelle: And if everyone spent, and no one saved a dime, there would very shortly be no machinery of production at all. ;^)
Still, the "saving" Brenda Pilott is disparaging is of a different sort--it's not the saving that fuels the machinery of production directly, it's the saving you make when you stop spending so much on parasites.
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