Picking up trash
On a tour recently I drove past two hard working people doing the unenviable job of picking up rubbish.
Richard Steele
It’s bad enough that we even have to do that – to pick up the trash lowlifes drop out their car windows.
But what was even worse were the 200 road cones accompanying the two workers, and the six blokes in the two trucks supervising the road cones.
Actually , the six blokes were leaning on a fence with body language, that suggested that they were playing cards.
This is not a Richard rant about road cones. You don’t need me to tell you how useless and bad they have become. This is an observation about what’s wrong with the economy. Drawing a long bow if you like. But it is the hidden costs attached to everything we do.
It doesn’t matter one iota, whether it’s putting up a building, fixing or building a road, selling produce to new markets, or anything you could care to think of. We are so bound up by bureaucratic bullshit that it’s an absolute wonder that or when anything gets done at all.
And then the pundits from governments gone, want Nicola Willis to resign, or for Luxon to stand aside.
But how can we succeed when we are so bogged down by the inefficient ways we go about our business?
I liked Roger Douglas and know that none of his 1980s reforms have ever been repealed. Those reforms were needed then, in a similar way to what we need now.
To think the government we threw out 18 months ago has the answers now is just naive on the electorate’s part.
We need a powerful mandate given to our political leaders, so, to quote in Tronald Dump’s words, we can clean out the swamp.
Central government, regional government, and local councils all have to do their part, in sorting out the bloody awful mess that they have created.
Or I will retire to thin out our daffodils.
