Govt accused of skewing road toll figures

and the funny thing is that nothing deane predicted in her hype last year even came true. Come on tv3 do an ip check and find out which moronic labour mp deane is.

My predictions for 2010 is that the government will introduce tax reform, increase G.S.T. with a corresponding decrease in your P.A.Y.E.
They will not implement a capital gains tax, but could introduce a land tax. They will also force Health Boards to adopt a corporate model in delivering health services. Greater emphasis will be on contracting out, which will lead to partial user pays for elective surgery.
There will be two accounts set up for the health system. One for the core health services by the public hospitals which will have public scrutiny, the other will be the private accounts which the contractors will have, but will not have public scrutiny. So no one will really know the efficiency gains by privatisation, or in fact the real stability of the health providers.
The fourth week holidays will be traded on and become the norm for low paid workers.

Matthew-Wilson is correct in his view about the manipulation of government figures to justify hike in ACC charges. This is indeed a strategy that the current and previous governments have used.
Privatisation is not just one process system. It involves many phases and steps. The last thing this government wants to do is spook its voters.
First phase create a crisis and discredits the status quo. To do this the government needs to create cognitive dissonance about ACC, Rail, Kiwi bank and other S.O.E.s
This involves sending media information bit by bit to cause hysteria. Create a public reaction.
They will use covert manipulation though policy and procedure to keep staff quiet about these changes.
Second phase build a working party made up of business leaders, ex politicians and government officials to write up a report giving extreme radical alternatives.
Third, only publish the extreme alternatives, but say they are too radical so that the public is mislead that the government has a “soft side”. So a step phase of privatisation takes place.
First by contracting out services, followed by braking down the SOEs assets and its ability to service the public.
Fourth implement changes opening up to competition while cutting services.
Fifth phase, sell off assets part by part while getting the media to dumb down the public by reporting on non important issues like a maverick MP swearing on the internet.
Phase one and part of phase two of ACC has already been done.

Matthew-Wilson is correct in his view. The price hike in fuel, where at one point it was over $2.00 a litre, meant that people thought twice about going out.

The recession, drop in incomes all affected people willingness to go out.

At one point Turners Car Auction had an over supply of medium to large cars like commodores, falcons and maximas. These cars sold cheaper then Nissan Micra, March, and Toyota Corolla.

So returning to ACC accident figures, the National Government is manipulating figures for its election funders agendas. You do not have to go far to find the evidence.

That is the reality with our political system. Those that have the most financial clout will ultimately determine policy.

After the next election, you are going to see privatisation take a slow, but gradual process.

Initially it involves building a case against the status quo. That is create cognitivitive disonance about our current ACC and health system. Invent a crisis.

Second phase, bring in "select committee" and "working party" made up of business leaders, ex politicians from both sides to make recommendations at the extreme level.

Third phase,paint a picture of a humain government by only adopting some of the policies.

Farm bikes arent included in road toll statistics because in general road toll statistics are about accidents that happen on the roads and not the farm.

National in particular are really bad at massaging statistics to read the way that they want them too.

Another example where National is using information to distort public perception is welfare.

For example, Harris.. was there last time National cut benefits by 20 percent using examples of people they believed were milking the system

Thier cuts didnt get rid of harris, hes been on a benefit for 25 years... but he is perfect for them to use so that the publics perception of beneficiaries becomes tarnished and they become far more willing to allow National to cut at the welfare system again.

Will it affect people like harris? no, not really neither Labour nor National have gotten harris off a benefit that he has been on for 25 years.

But they have used examples like him to make all other beneficiaries pay.

So in short farm bikes have accidents on the farm in general, which doesnt get counted in the road toll.

Why shouldn't farm bikes be included? They are still as, or possibly more dangerous than normal motorcycles. Riders seem to rarely wear any protection at all, especially helmets.