“Our leaders, while well meaning and very astute in the art of political survival, are devoting much of their energy into maintaining their positions, and very little to the real needs of the country,” Anderson said last week during his meeting with New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully
“Unelected and inexperienced officials step up into this power vacuum and introduce grandiose and foolhardy schemes. Recent ill-advised attempts to nationalize the fuel industry have only been put on hold due to loud complaints from all sectors of the community.”
The chamber’s view of the opposition party wasn’t much better.
“The opposition — who are paid to be the opposition — are highly vocal about the extremely important issue of VIP parking for MPs at the airport, and not much else.”
Anderson said all the while “tourism numbers are down and the economy is shrinking, the global recession is heading our way, and Cook Islanders are leaving our shores in ever increasing numbers.”
