Raise super age, doctors say, and spend up on kids

Jul 8, 2011

New Zealand Herald 8 July 2011 has the above as the lead headline on page 2. The article continues with " Generous pensions wrong while children are living in poverty, medical trio say".

New Zealanders are locked into a "them or us" mentality, instead of a "If we can afford it for them, we can afford it for us as well".

Logic suggests that if New Zealanders desire particular outcomes i.e. to provide super to those over 65 years and to spend up on kids health or on any other desired outcome, then the financial system should enable those outcomes to be financially possible - subject only to the availability of people with the necessary skills, technology, resources and that all projects are also environmentally sustainable.