Eikotomi wrote:Roosevetania wrote:snip
"Madam Speaker, pardon my interjection. I would like to point out that the honourable members of the Opposition are in fact, immensely short-sighted and very limited in their tunnel-vision when they are conducting blatant political posturing like this. It is interesting that the Opposition is focussing on raw numbers rather than the real impacts of what we are doing as a government. The government is committed to defending our economy from erosion, determined to grow it from strength to strength, determined to build individual ruggedness and self reliance that will generate to ever greater prosperity and resilience in our society, and our programmes will be targeted, with emphasis on equality of opportunity. Targeted at making the greatest impact, not splashing cash as if it were something that grew on trees. The Opposition members only see raw numbers, they don't realise that throwing money at problems do not solve it, it is effective policy and effective implementation that works, not flushing systems with cash and expecting that cash to work wonders by itself. It is limited, selfish, and short-sighted of the Opposition not to see this, and I urge all colleagues to work with this government, the people's Government, Banduria's government, to build a better Banduria without resorting to quibbling over who is the biggest Santa Claus, forgetting that Banduria needs to be wise in spending and wise in allocating its resources to development that works for all Bandurians, not splashing cash and benefiting the bureaucrats whom our Opposition enjoys feeding, maybe because they realise that these bureaucratic positions would be the cushy positions they wish to occupy in future. Let us get rid of this selfishness, this narrow-mindedness, let us work together, with this people's government, to deliver this Unity budget for the people of Banduria, and let us end this nonsense about not spending enough, because what matters more, is getting things done. Thank you Madam Speaker."
"Madam Speaker, one thing which might actually bring us closer to the honourable member's admirable goal of unity is if the government actually outlined how and on what the budget of each department will be spent, as is usual in most other democracies, and indeed as has been done for most budgets in the past. If this was done, maybe we could be enlightened on whether and how the government plans to use these meagre resources to the fullest extent."
