Tenderwatch

Ok so it appears that my Tenderwatch community service isn’t working in halting silly and wasteful spending by Government departments.

Here is the latest farcical tender that some Maori Trougher will have already wangled for himself at great cost to the taxpayer.

I have a few questions.

1. What I want to know is why is that Maori Rangatahi are getting a special Physical Activity programme?
2. What about Chinese Rangatahi?
3. European Rangatahi?
4. Samoan Rangatahi?
5. Why do Maori fishing nets need special Physical Activity programmes anyway?
6. If they mean youth why didn’t they just say that?
7. Isn’t this sort of programme already called “Rugby” or “Football” or “League”?

I propose a solution to this silly waste. The Romans invented it it is quite effective. It is called decimation.

From Wikipedia;

Decimation (Latin: decimatio; decem = “ten”) was a form of military discipline used by officers in the Roman Army to punish mutinous or cowardly soldiers. The word decimation is derived from Latin meaning “removal of a tenth.”

Procedure

A unit selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots (Sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning or clubbing. The remaining soldiers were given rations of barley instead of wheat and forced to sleep outside of the Roman encampment.

Because the punishment fell by lot, all soldiers in the group were eligible for execution, regardless of the individual degree of fault, or rank and distinction.

The leadership was usually executed independent of the 1 in 10 deaths of the rank and file.

Ok so the next silly tender that is issued the whole department goes through decimation. That’ll sort it.

Here is a ripper of a waste of money.

A tender for the delivery of a “South Asian Physical Activity and Nutrition promotion Services to the Auckland Metro Region”

Well fuck me, I don’t even know what that is supposed to mean or what it even entails but since I live in Howick I can tell you that the Asian community does very well thank you very much looking after itself. If you drive around Howick most mornings and especially on the weekend you will see literally thousands of Asians doing massed classes of Tai Chi on every available carpark. From the looks of the Wikipedia article on Tai Chi it looks like a South Asian Physical Activity and Nutrition programme has already been developed, been around for 1000′s of years and now just needs some posters explaining where the classes are held.

I don’t think they need a South Asian Physical Activity and Nutrition promotion Service for the Auckland Metro Region. More bloody waste that needs to be knocked on the head.

Silly First Name Syndrome has been blamed for deaths, injuries and now I can certify that it may have been the cause of a dangerous house fire.

“There’s a fire and we’re all going to die.”

That frightened call from her son sent mother-of-eight Tammy Hippolite-Elkington rushing upstairs to save her family.

The fire badly damaged their Housing New Zealand three-bedroom home in Orchard St, Stoke on Thursday afternoon and St Barnabas Church has taken the family in.

Today, cuddling her one-year-old daughter Dreamz, Mrs Hippolite-Elkington wanted to say thanks to those who have helped the family.

She first realised something was up when her younger children came running downstairs, urging her to “come and look”, saying “quick, quick”.

Her three-year-old daughter had a lighter in her hand and she asked what had happened.

That’s when her son blurted out there was a fire and she rushed upstairs to find a mattress in a bedroom on fire.

Those aren’t Dreamz honey, those are nightmarez. Change the kid’s name before more evil befalls you.

Editorial: Everyone wins from sale of state houses – Tenants of state houses will shortly be given an opportunity to buy them. Housing Minister Phil Heatley has announced that houses will be offered to tenants at market valuations from September and Housing New Zealand will use the… [NZ Herald Politics]

Of course it is a win/win scenario, except for the plonkers in Labour and the Greens.

This news has been greeted with predictable disapproval from Labour, the Green Party and various advocacy groups who claim to be concerned for people in urgent need of a state house. Their preferred solution seems to be to spend whatever it takes to house everyone who cannot afford to buy a home.

On Friday I posted the video of Phil Heatley ripping Goff a new one over his hypocrisy on state houses. DPF has finally caught up on that.

The policy looks to be good for the tenants, good for their neighbourhood, good for those waiting for a state house, good for the taxpayer, the building industry and the economy. Good for everyone, in fact, except those who live on constituencies of state dependence.

Ouch, that i a stab at the socialists, the last sentence. New Zealand surely needs to wake up to exact problem that for more than 50 years successive governments have bred and indeed encouraged state dependence at the expense of individual self reliance.