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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

$1Bn of humble pie

Desperate is the word I'd use.

initiative that sees millions of dollars from private providers go to the health and welfare needs of struggling families

Desperate to get her hands on $1Bn of taxpayer funds to manage on yet to be created airy-fairy health care schemes.

the policy was a shambles

Maori Party initiative that sees millions of dollars from private providers go to the health and welfare needs of struggling families

Schemes you can only access if you feel you have the right genes.
Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia has bowed to Prime Minister John Key's edict that her whanau ora policy must be available to everyone in need, rather than only to Maori

John Boy has reined in that desperation and forced her to eat a big chunk of pie. She may have been temporarily reined in, but she will not stop trying. The fix is in, as I said in a previous post the Maori Party are firmly over a barrel on this, just the size of the bribe is being haggled over.

A footnote: she wants more if the scheme is extended to cover non-Maori. Still wants that money. All of it.

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