| AUCKLAND: Reserve Bank Governor Don Brash made his socialist tendencies obvious in an outspoken speech to the Knowledge Wave conference in Auckland yesterday.
Brash posited a range of policy options that left his opponents on the political right fuming. Brash made a wide range of suggestions such as introducing lifetime limits for state benefits; scrapping the minimum wage and raising the age of entitlement for superannuation. National leader Jenny Shipley was outraged at the suggestions and stated that Dr Brash should stick to his role as Governor of the Reserve Bank and should discontinue commenting on social policy in New Zealand. "The suggestion that people should have limits imposed upon their access to benefits presupposes that people should be given benefits in the first place," stated Mrs Shipley. "We all know that the days of the freeloader are long over in New Zealand. Hard working New Zealander's should not be forced to foot the bill for able bodied layabouts, who spend their days sitting around snorting marijuana and stealing cars." Mrs Shipley refused to comment on rumours that the National party was in negotiations with a prominent African slave lord that would see New Zealander's that spend longer than five years on welfare sold into slavery. |
| Brash Acknowledges Socialist Tendencies |
Wednesday, 01 August 2001 12:00
