Illustration of why Greens are Fruit Loops

Have a look at the following video. It could be a motorway being built anywhere, back in the days when people got on and did stuff. Consider the methods and materials used, all of them decried by the Greens as endangering the planet. I don't know about you, but I don't want to return to the days of horse and cart, give me development and the employment that comes with it any day.

Shane Jones Bank

I laughed when the New Zealand ACT party leader David Seymour called the Regional Development fund, Shane Jones Bank. NZ doesn't have a good record with this kind of thing. Money is always diverted and any gains often remain illusory. The latest round of funding for the West Coast of the South island is a drop in the ocean compared to what the West Coast mining sector could generate in earnings on its own, and they wouldn't need government funding at all. But then most of the minerals that the West Coast is rich in, the NZ government is allergic to.