I thought Julie-Anne Genter was Associate Transport Minister, but it seems she is Associate Health Minister as well. When you think about the Department of Health, you tend to think about overworked doctors, overworked nurses, waiting lists, sewage in the walls (that turned out to be non-existent), cancer drugs, diabetes…
But Julie-Anne Genter, new, self-appointed Associate Minister of Health does not think about any of those things. Her biggest concern about the health service is… its carbon footprint.
Yes, really. Maybe she can see carbon dioxide too, like Greta Thunberg.
Do you think Julie Anne Genter thinks before she speaks? Do you think she thinks about anything apart from climate change? Do you think in trying to change our view on climate change or to get us to be as obsessive as her, she works out how nutty she sounds before she says stuff?
Genter is after the health service.
Not on hospital care, not on patients not getting treatment, not on waiting lists, not on their debt, not on the fact there are too many DHBs, not on the staffing shortages, not on the diabetes epidemic, not on the obesity crisis, not on any health related matter that bogs this country’s health fiscal and social system down.
But on climate change. Yes, she’s after the hospitals on climate change.
And in doing so, she’s sticking yet another knife into the farmers, the backbone of our economy and foreign income success. She wants hospitals serving less meat and less milk to help their carbon footprint.
This woman is dangerous. Really dangerous. Many people in the hospital are on special diets, that may include increased protein. But Julie-Anne thinks they can get all that from a nutburger and a glass of almond milk. Not to mention that almond milk is significantly more expensive than the real thing.
Do you even think your average hospital worker has time to even consider what their hospital’s carbon footprint is? Or do you think in the old ED department they might be a bit more worried about the knifings, heart attacks, overdoses, and road carnage? But no, ol’ Genter is banging on about the carbon footprint.
These Greenies are so anti-farming that they forget that it is the backbone of our economy. Well, no… they probably don’t forget. They just don’t care. They lost touch with economic reality a long time ago.
It’s almost like she’s a caricature, and yet she is a woman of power. She is a Minister in the government, a person who can affect real change.
And yet under a system groaning with systemic trouble, leaking buildings, hundreds of millions of debt, sacked boards and appointed commissioners, all she can muster her energy to produce is yet another time wasting, touchy feely, woke pile of crap, in the form of an edict, to pedal yet again her wacky, out of touch, totally inappropriate agenda.
As for the farmers, what must they think? Along with the Emissions Trading Scheme, the levies, the water quality attacks, and now an open warfare plan to undermine all they do.
Is she working for the enemy? Is this economic treason? How obscure, weird, and unusual do you need to be before literally everyone writes you off as a joke?
NEWSTALK ZB.
She is a joke, but the trouble is, about 6% of voters fail to see the Greens for what they really are… dangerous hypocrites who will ruin our economy and our country, all for the sake of a doctrine that is fantasy at best and criminal at worst.
I know hospital food is often dreadful, but if JAG gets her way, it is about to get much worse. Enjoy your tofu, folks. It will be yet another reason to get out of the hospital as quickly as possible and it just might end the obesity epidemic overnight. Maybe that has been her plan all along.
