And how the heck would you imagine one can possibly measure such intangibles...as loneliness, misery - and all the rest...-no, I - seriously - mean: really?
Budget (Pre-)Delivery Postscript:
But having said all the above...
the current Labour-led Government is certainly *well-intentioned in what it's aiming to do...especially vis-a-vis the long-neglected area of mental health in God's Own, a field - psychoanalysis/therapy to be precise - my own long-deceased Dad not only spent his life in, but even stood for local council in regards to (on behalf of the then New Labour Party, later the Alliance, back in 1989 or thereabouts).
Yes, if it does indeed 'take up' 38 of the 40 recommendations of the mental health task force awhile back - implementing 22 and further investigating another 16 - then it surely can't be any bad thing, can it...
There's much more to commentate upon the topic, but suffice for now to leave you with the thoughts (on many such a matter) of 'me ole mate' John Tamihere, would-be mayor-to-be of Auckland City (alongside his well-chosen deputy mayoral candidate, one-time National Party minister and present-day city councillor Christine Fletcher)...
...who might upon this, as upon many another such matter, have simply said: "Less hu-i and more do-ey!" I.e. the ultimate proof of this particular 'pudding' will be - as per usual - in the eating thereof. As we all know, talk - however grand and hifalutin' even - is, in the final analysis, a rather cheap and easily obtained 'commodity'...it's what we eventually do to effect our fine words that ultimately counts.
*Though didn't some oft-quoted wag declare that the road to hell is paved with such?
Budget (Pre-)Delivery Postscript:
But having said all the above...
the current Labour-led Government is certainly *well-intentioned in what it's aiming to do...especially vis-a-vis the long-neglected area of mental health in God's Own, a field - psychoanalysis/therapy to be precise - my own long-deceased Dad not only spent his life in, but even stood for local council in regards to (on behalf of the then New Labour Party, later the Alliance, back in 1989 or thereabouts).
Yes, if it does indeed 'take up' 38 of the 40 recommendations of the mental health task force awhile back - implementing 22 and further investigating another 16 - then it surely can't be any bad thing, can it...
There's much more to commentate upon the topic, but suffice for now to leave you with the thoughts (on many such a matter) of 'me ole mate' John Tamihere, would-be mayor-to-be of Auckland City (alongside his well-chosen deputy mayoral candidate, one-time National Party minister and present-day city councillor Christine Fletcher)...
...who might upon this, as upon many another such matter, have simply said: "Less hu-i and more do-ey!" I.e. the ultimate proof of this particular 'pudding' will be - as per usual - in the eating thereof. As we all know, talk - however grand and hifalutin' even - is, in the final analysis, a rather cheap and easily obtained 'commodity'...it's what we eventually do to effect our fine words that ultimately counts.
*Though didn't some oft-quoted wag declare that the road to hell is paved with such?
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