Originally Posted by
pritch
You must have drifted off. For years we were told that there were no funds available for urgently required work here. Auckland, and to a lesser extent Wellington's Northern outlet, were the priority.
Only in the last year or so has that changed.
Other places didn't have urgently required work?
If you're interested in how resources are allocated then maybe you could find and quote all of the various funding sources and show how Orks gets more national funding per capita than everyone else.
Dollars spent per head of pop might be a good start. Kilometers of existing roads per head of pop might be interesting.
Either way, "they got stuff and we didn't" isn't a very compelling argument. Neither is "wah wah Orks is getting more than they used to", which completely ignores the fact that Orks population has had massively higher population growth than anywhere else.
In the meantime don't mind me drifting off, I really don't give a fuck, I tend to figure that any spending on actual infrastructure which benefits all of us to varying degrees is less interesting than plans to massively increase the funds flushed down the social spending toilet.
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