Public service cuts seem arbitrary, damaging - The Gisborne Herald

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Public service cuts seem arbitrary, damaging - The Gisborne Herald

Previous National governments have reduced the public services to breaking point, just as they’re doing now. As far as I can tell, there has been no assessment of the needs of the public services to determine what is needed. It seems unwise to reduce the public services solely on ideological grounds and without real basis. The cuts are also senseless because people who have developed good institutional knowledge will be sacked and again, some pu…