Our people are slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word "NO".

                               
Rhett Butler probably couldn't give a damn, but many Kiwis do.  The recent storm that invaded New Zealand without a tourist visa at the end of July 2008, was unparalleled in a lifetime of weather watching.  It was a case of heads down, hands over ears and with a bit of luck it will all be over by the time burying one's head in the sand was accomplished.  The problem these days is that the weather forecasting people are too accurate.  What they predict, normally comes true.
              
Predictions in the computer driven age of misinformation can be disastrous.  With a general
election a few months away, the political waffle emerging from overblown egos is worse than the weather.  History shows that within hours the weather calms and danger passes.  But the damage caused by head in the cloud politicians is permanent.

When will they ever learn to keep their big mouths shut?  Do they really believe that what they preach is gospel originating from their superior intelligence?  Why do self diagnosed intelligent people need gospels in the first place?  Might I suggest we need more unemployed politicians, then they would discover the corruption in their self hailed welfare system?  Perhaps they would understand crime is increasing because of their decisions?  

I'm a little lost as to the meaning of political intelligence.  Have you ever seen a politician with a brain that stands the country in good steed?  Does anybody sagacious ride these steeds?  Why do they stand on slippery soap boxes and promise the earth when the earth already exists?  Do their minds really care for the people, or do they mind their own cares first?  Do they truthfully clip-clop off into the sunset of political notoriety with heads humbly bowed, or have they drunk too much tax payer funded booze?  Don't they realise that all political careers end in failure?  What is the point and whom the Hell do they think they're fooling?

In recent times New Zealand has had a left leaning government promoting the Karl Marx doctrine of doing as you're told or suffer the consequences.  Naturally they took credit for the booming world economy but now recession has invaded the Land of the Long White Credit Card, nothing is their fault.  Controlling the people with subjugation legislation has turned NZ into a nation of zombies with rational thinkers moving offshore to get away from the bureaucratic malaise of double incompetence. 

A Commission of Inquiry decided that as single incompetence costs more than double incompetence, the number of bureaucrats should be trebled to justify the utilisation of Commissions of Inquiries researching their incompetence levels.  Acting upon the cleaning lady's advice, the Minister of Compromise has also arranged a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the under indulgence of Commissions of Inquiries.  An affirmative answer is expected by August 2028.

If an inappropriate answer is provided, a new Commission of Inquiry will be instigated to investigate the lack of bureaucratic inefficiency.  In the meantime tax cuts have been cancelled to pay for the bureaucrats employed to justify their own salaries.  Another government department will be set up to cover the original work load of those deployed on various Commissions of Inquiries.  A special committee of redundant bureaucrats have been re-employed to ensure non-essential work expands to fill the time available for its completion. (Parkinson's Law).  Thus over-employment in the Public Service can be shown to be justified.  It has been officially noted that while all bureaucrats are equal, some are more aquatic than others.  Water-wings are naturally provided at tax payer expense.