Andrew Dickens Afternoons

So I'm a reasonable man and I'm not prone to hyperbolic statements. I believe that most New Zealanders and virtually all New Zealanders in leadership positions are doing their best to do the best thing for New Zealand.I'm prepared to give any government a fighting chance. This one is wanting to spend money, as money becomes available, on stuff we've neglected for a while as we recovered from a big economic shock in 2008. On a macro level, this government has the same attitude as National's coalition, who also had the same attitude as the Labour-led government before it. Run a surplus, keep debt under control. The difference is how they spend the tax. With this government, the benefit spend is up, education spending is up and one day when all the working groups make their mind up they might do something else.So they're not the big bad wolf. They just have different priorities to the last lotBut at the moment I facepalm at some of the stances being taken by Government.Knowing that business is leery of a lefty l