With much tooting of trumpets! |
Once upon a time in the land of The Long White Mortgage, there lived an honourable man called Mr Commonsense Honesty Decency. Sadly, he was assassinated in the name of political expediency. Mr Decency lies unlamented by those whose egos exceed their brainpower permanently downgraded by their addiction to public money. Daydreams are of course legal or politics would never have been invented. But no matter, the 2009 Budget arrived with much speculation over its pre leaked contents designed to soothe the brows of those being lied to for the sake of maintaining deceitful policies. After many assurances, it is now available to be misinterpreted in the socialist democracy called New Zealand. The brainwashed public sighed with relief and wrote letters congratulating the self-confessed experts on achieving their expectations. But that is expected in the scheme of things designed to avoid political repercussions. Alas, the promised tax cuts were cancelled. As a sign of goodwill the politician's expense accounts will be increased/decreased to help reduce the national deficit. It wouldn't be to the democratic advantage of those living at the expense of the public to suffer a shortage of ready cash. It would be demeaning being forced to use their own money to pay their expenses. Naturally the increased expenses would be to the public's advantage for reasons that would be established by a commission of enquiry arranged for the latter half of 2063. The Pension Fund that served no real purpose apart from inflating the ego of those that invented it, has been put into financial solitude for the next ten years. Loud sobbing publicised the misfortune of those benefiting from the billions of legally extorted dollars by way of massive fees for signing their names to accepting no responsibility for their actions. The financial experts collectively forecast doom and gloom for their investments in the tax-free Bahamas. Several put their NZ multi million dollar seaside baches on the depressed housing market to indicate their poverty, while others transferred ownership to Swiss trust accounts held by their pet dogs, Bruno Incorporated. The announcement that subsidies would be available to install live bats in the ceiling was welcomed by those forced to live on the streets by economic circumstances, such as losing their homes because they couldn't afford the mortgage payments and council rates. Politicians made reassuring speeches to justify the breaking of their original promises as being in the national good, or if proven wrong, they would resign forthwith at the end of their sixth term of unbridled power. The public could be assured that they would work 24/7 in the Backbenchers Bar to deliver complete satisfaction to those suffering from their personal ineptitude. The newly unemployed have no reason to worry because welfare was readily available providing the officially declared professional bludgers qualified for the 'morally honest' conditions designed primarily to keep the numbers and costs down to a politically acceptable level. Officialdom conceded that the worst recession since the last one, was almost over and while unemployment, bankruptcies and mortgagee sales would treble in the long term, the short term was rosy for those with blind optimism and no understanding of the greed of human nature. With the high value of political worthlessness becoming apparent, 'let there be light,' muttered those wearing sunglasses. There is of course, none so blind as those who will not see. |
