Put topics into perspective

I constantly read and see - particularly on TV - where an opposition MP, or any MP for that matter, is allowed to criticise a statement or policy without the interviewer asking them what they would do about the issue and where the money should come from or be taken from to pay for their idea.

The other point worth noting is that all sorts of government departments are forever asking for more funds, whether it be health, education, transport, police or various other government agencies.

Why don't journalists, or politicians for that matter, quote what the Government spend is on these departments compared to other developed countries? For example, we constantly hear about Police numbers and occasionally someone may quote some figures, but mostly they are not relevant to NZ and our scattered communities. How much do we spend on defence, for example, compared to our GDP?

There is always some new health drug or equipment coming along and naturally people would like to have it all. What is our overall health spend compared to other like-countries as a percentage of GDP?

To me, we can't have informative opinions about so many of these topics until they are put into perspective in such a way as outlined above.

W Keen, Pyes Pa.

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