Finally got to the end of season 2 of Juggernaut, show covers the 1990s National government, and from 1996, the first Nat-led coalition resulting from MMP elections;
https://thespinoff.co.nz/podcasts/juggernaut
The contrast between the sound bites from veteran economist Susan St John and from former finance minister Ruth Richardson couldn't be more stark.
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St John talks about the real human price of slashing social welfare spending and workers rights. A price the most vulnerable in the country continue to pay, to this day.
Richardson meanwhile dribbles neoclassical nonsense. Totally ignoring the impacts on real people, as if those are a reasonable price to pay for number-go-up in entirely theoretical economic measures like GDP (or number-go-up-less in the case of inflation).
The inherent sociopath of Ruthenasia has never been clearer.
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