It’s a bog-standard feature of every Labour government that the state will expand, not just in terms of money spent, but people employed.
So I’m not surprised to see this information from a recent post by Don Brash, Do We Need So Many Bureaucrats?:
- Land Information New Zealand, 25.5%
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 30.7%
- Ministry of Education, 32.4% (not teachers)
- Ministry of Defence, 35.3%
- Ministry of Primary Industries, 36.7%
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, 38.9%
- Oranga Tamariki, 40.7%
- Ministry of Transport, 40.8% (not including NZTA)
- Ministry for the Environment, 41.0%
- Public Service Commission, 42.6%
- Ministry for Women, 45.8%
- Ministry for Maori Development, 69.8%
- Ministry for Pacific Peoples, 81.1%
As Brash points out, this would not be so bad if there was evidence that the government was getting stuff done with all these extra people. But as is increasingly obvious to anybody who ignores the NZ MSM, it’s…
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