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Ryan Bridge: The public service cuts didn't come out of nowhere · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: We got the inevitable grinch headlines from the media yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: powered by union panic. The public service knew this was coming.
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  Speaker 1: They should have Judith Colins, Nicola Willis, Sir Brian Roach,
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  Speaker 1: I've all been talking about it since they got into office,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not shocking. It's also not a done deal yet.
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  Speaker 1: All that's really happened in the final leg of this
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  Speaker 1: government's current term is a few letters have been posted
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  Speaker 1: to some chief executives. Did you give us a mood board?
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  Speaker 1: Do us a mood board on some cuts to staffing.
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  Speaker 1: The savings will be banked, but there is no guarantee
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  Speaker 1: any of this will actually happen. Winston Peters was right
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  Speaker 1: about that yesterday. That's for an election to decide. Back
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  Speaker 1: to the unions and the opposition complaints for a second.
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  Speaker 1: Two basic questions. If these proposed cuts are so bad,
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  Speaker 1: so evil, so destructive, so armageddon, why was a workforce
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  Speaker 1: equivalent to about one percent of the population.
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  Speaker 2: Allowed under Halen Clark? Was she and evil grinch like Nicola?
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  Speaker 1: And how can you say the publics will suffer, that
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  Speaker 1: we will suffer, the sky will fall in the clouds
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  Speaker 1: will gather when you know not what jobs are actually
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  Speaker 1: being cut. Yet, how are you to know there aren't
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  Speaker 1: back off a savings to be made. We're told the
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  Speaker 1: money will instead go towards the front line in health
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  Speaker 1: and education.
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  Speaker 2: Wonderful? Should we not celebrate?
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  Speaker 1: To be fair, the same argument could be tipped on
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  Speaker 1: its head without knowing what's being cut. How can the
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  Speaker 1: government claim that no services will be impacted. The proof
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  Speaker 1: of that, though, will be in the eating of the pudding,
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  Speaker 1: as the saying goes. But remember, the job of figuring
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  Speaker 1: out which jobs are for the acts without affecting us,
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  Speaker 1: the taxpayers, is in the hands of the very people
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  Speaker 1: whose jobs are on the line in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: If we are to trust them, as the unions in
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  Speaker 1: the opposition clearly do, should we not trust that they
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  Speaker 1: will know how to be surgical and only trim the
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  Speaker 1: fat and not the bone. For more from early edition
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