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95bFM: Manning On The PM's Big-Picture Spin-Shift
95bFM Audio: Benji Jackson & Selwyn Manning National's Spin-Battle Shifts To Big Picture Politics
Selwyn Manning and Benji Jackson discuss how the Prime Minister John Key has shifted his spin-battle from how tax-cuts and a hike in GST will affect individual kiwi voters over to big-picture-politics. His new line suggests the cuts and increase will address the economy's mounting debt to offshore banks and lender entities. Has the PM got a point, or is it just another swindle?
Quote from Selwyn Manning's address: “Instead of this Government moving to distribute the people's money evenly, the only sector of New Zealand that will end up decreasing their debt will be the very wealthy, the cronies who are the traditional bed-fellows of the National Party.
“The Prime Minister can get away with this rort because National is so high in the polls. He's an engaging guy, he's personally likable, he gets out there among real people.
“But I'd suggest we all need to look through the image, and think through what his party plans for this country.
“The plan as we know it includes A shift in wealth from low and middle income earners to bolster a rise in wealth by the already wealthy
“The institutionalization of a problematic inflation-causing tax, GST, that whacks humble families severely A move to inject millions into the big picture economy by mining New Zealand's national parks and conservation land...
“But really, one thing worth considering is the question: what companies are going to be scanning our national parks for mineral wealth, oil and gold? What companies are going to be let loose to explore, and then exploit land that was set aside for future generations?
“I bet they will largely be offshore oil and gold exploration multinationals. And in a realisation of irony... as we know, the profits made from the exploitation of New Zealand's once locked up wealth wont stay here in NZ but will be siphoned off into the bank accounts of foreign tax havens...
“Glorious.”
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