$8.7 billion

here is a picture doing the rounds of History Teacher Boy in the house yesterday. It is taken just after he has announced his obscene $8.7 billioin surplus. He is sitting there in the comfy green chair with the most nauseating of his smug, arrogant simian grins plastered to his face and is holding up four fingers. What do these fingers represent? Four percent cut in income tax for all comers? Four percent cut in company tax? Forty thousand dollars as the level the upper tax bracket will be raised? No bloody way. They represent a fourth term. That is all the little toad sees in this great pile of your and my money - a way of buying a fourth term for this odious reugnant administration. The look on his weasely little face, the malevolent lustful glare from those slit like gimlets of eyes, the smugness of a dictator about to hand out lollies to the proles - God it makes you (well me anyway) sick.

Bill English this morning predicts a session of lollynomics for the time from now to the election. You can pick it like a nose can't you. Dear Leader (as if we haven't got enough nausea on our plates this morning) then chimes in with all the 'sensible stewardship of a robust economy' BS and 'we have yet to decide how New Zealanders may benefit from our mastery of economics' crap. They are talking about giving back bits of the money they nicked off us in the first place. Everything about their tax policy is duplicitous and just plain wrong. The top rate of tax kicks in at $60,000 dollars. When I first came to the Peoples Republic I seriously thought this was a misprint. Bloody Labour assured us that this would only affect 5% of the countrys wage earners. Now $60,000 per annum hardly puts you in the queue for your own Gulfstream but this 'top earner' tax bracket now is reached by 14% of the proles - nearly one in six.

No one likes paying taxes much but I wouldn't mind so much if it were spent on good stuff - roads, high explosives for men in camo suits to chuck around the place, fighters - even hospitals. Starship is a paltry $4 mill short of some target or another and where does 25% of the shortfall come from? Cullen's wheelbarrowful of banknotes? No. Tiger's caddy stumps up with the folding varieties.

Cullen and Dear Leader are much more intent on spending our money on supporting a world wide (no less) abolition of the death penalty. Not content with passing legislation that the majority of her own country don't want (was it 80 or 85% that were against Bradford's smackng nonsense) she now want's to stick her beak into other peoples business. Apparently 65% of Septics want to keep the unfriendly injections and Ole' Sparky. Their business not mine - or the Dear Leader's. I'm sure Helen's displeaseure over the use of bullets and bits of rope is really concerning the leaders of Iran, China, Singapore etc. etc.

Speaking of China and hypocrisy - we have mentioned Dear Leader - what is with her totally lily livered stance on Taiwan. She wants a free trade deal with China. She wants it so much that she ignores China's use of the death penalty but refuses to support Taiwan (a democratic nation of a mere 23 million) in it's bid for global recognition because the PRC insist that anyone who deals with them say Taiwan are a bunch of ratbags.

And then there's increasing the tax on non biofuel petrol but no time.

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