Te Pāti Māori are always straight out of the gate with threats, and so it is more of the same after the Government announced $30 million of cuts to a programme for teachers to learn te reo Māori.
There is something seriously wrong in New Zealand when one party, Te Pāti Māori, always preface their statements with threats, usually of violence.
The latest episode is their anger at the Government cutting a significant trough, teaching teachers te reo Māori, and instead deploying the money to ensure that kids are actually learning something useful, like maths.
This is not the sign of a collapsing government. It is the sign of a media desperate to inject uncertainty where the numbers show strength.
Isn’t capitalism and democracy history’s most powerful driver of human progress? By incentivising innovation and rewarding efficiency, haven’t free markets and democracy shifted NZ into a more egalitarian country?
That means there is currently a broken promise of $295,200,000 per annum with the 1,476 extra staff.
Nothing is sacred and safe from the cocks-in-frocks weirdos.
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