u/Illustrious_Fan_8148

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Tldr: it would make the last few years look like like good times by comparison to the economic doom loop they will cause next year.

You will be left to drown financially as fuel and food costs continue to rise.

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The economy is the worst in living memory for many kiwis. Many have had to leave to find work overseas etc etc.

On top of the damage nact has done to the economy during this term in government, they now want to double down on their ideological pursuit of a smaller, "more efficient" government.

These layoffs would be one of, if not the single largest in nz history.

The likely effects would include:

-a further spike in unemployment

-suck 2.4 billion in consumer spending out of an already stagnant economy

-cause wellington another exodus of well paid workers

-cause businesses around the country to pause or scale back hiring, planned investments, upgrades or new projects

-send another wave of qualified and experienced kiwi workers off to the Uk and Australia

-cause public service delivery to further deteriorate (think longer wait times on hold trying to get through to a real person to figure out why AI declined your acc claim or why AI declined your application for jobseeker etc etc)

-less capacity for government agencies to respond to disasters (think climate related disasters, pandemics, cyber attacks etc)

-make us more vulnerable as a nation during a time of increasing geopolitical instability

-increase the amount of people on jobseeker and associated costs

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Essentially, if national are reelected they have told us they intend to force the country into an economic doom loop.

As a small nation when the government pulls back spending thats a huge signal to the private sector to pull back also. Kiwi households are up to their eye balls in debt, there is no one left to step in to catalyse economic activity if national goes through with these cuts.

People need to wake up to just how much worse this cam all get if our current finance minister (who majored in english literature ffs) is allowed another three years in power.

Labour/greens need to get very disciplined with their messaging and start repeatedly hammering the government for having no ideas other than "more cuts, smaller government"

This isnt rocket science. If chippy or chloe/marama arent up to the job and they need to stand the fuck aside and let someone else have a go.

We should all refuse to put up with 3 more years of this shit.

It feels like we are growing increasinly divided and fragmented as a society. There is a significant amount of "us vs them" or "my people" way of thinking.

I think its pretty foundational for the future success of a nation for people to have a mixture of shared identity and or common values.

If you could implement a policy which promoted unity and or reduced division and polarisation what would it be and why?

Looking for somewhere that does consistently excellent fish and chips? My local one either undercooks or overcooks the chips every time

Zack Polansky (greens leader in the uk), Mamdani in new york are both having huge success getting support by talking about economic populist issues (taxing wealth not labour, cheaper public transport, public housing etc)

Given the dire state of the nz economy and discontent amongst kiwis, why arent the nz greens able to successfully exploit these type of popular policies?