A Whimpy approach to selling budgets.

Why is it when I look at the budget with it's promises of future benefits, it's glitizy rebranding of cuts to services and increases in costs, it's wealth redistribution, it's many reassurances of necessity and need, it's blame placing and crisis creation, it's asset selling and hidden surprises that the person John Keys reminds me of most is Benard Whimp.

If IRD's rather than treasuries predictions are anything to go by then the small print conditions, the promised benefits anticipate to eventuate, will disappear like fairy gold, though no doubt some will profit still.

How did John Key make his fortune again, was it money trading?

Wikipedia has an interesting factoid.

In 1995, he joined Merrill Lynch as head of Asian foreign exchange in Singapore. That same year he was promoted to Merrill's global head of foreign exchange, based in London, where he may have earned around US$2.25 million a year including bonuses, which is about NZ$5 million at 2001 exchange rates.^[

Some co-workers called him "the smiling assassin" for maintaining his usual cheerfulness while sacking dozens (some say hundreds) of staff after heavy losses from the 1998 Russian financial crisis

 

 

The question is as we watch their value plummet, do we sell our shares in our country to this man?

 I know he's smiling at us, and looking cheerful, but are you sure that you want to deal?

If their was a political FMA, I wonder what they would say about the offer?