{"id":2806,"date":"2015-02-15T11:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2015-02-15T11:02:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T22:02:58","slug":"the-national-governments-cronyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"The National governments cronyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cronyism<\/b> is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. Hence, cronyism is contrary in practice and principle to meritocracy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/crony-capitalism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2779\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/crony-capitalism-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"crony-capitalism\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/crony-capitalism-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/crony-capitalism.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The National party is stacking boards across the\u00a0nation and New Zealand is getting the reputation as an African crony state. The cronyism is out of control and every facet of New Zealand society is controlled by a National party agenda. When the National government is defeated a denationalization process will be neccesary to purge all nepotist\u00a0government appointments while avoiding golden parachutes. With nepotism rife the Nat\u2019s are like pigs at the trough giving their mates the hookups. This diagram below is just scratching the surface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cronynats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2804 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cronynats.jpg\" alt=\"cronynats\" width=\"388\" height=\"873\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cronynats.jpg 388w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/cronynats-133x300.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cronyism is partiality to long-standing friends, especially by appointing them to positions of authority, regardless of their qualifications. Hence, cronyism is contrary in practice and principle to meritocracy. The National party is stacking boards across the\u00a0nation and New Zealand is getting the reputation as an African crony state. The cronyism is out of control and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2807,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions\/2807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}