Nancy Dollar

The ferry shambles is economic mismanagement in plain sight, and it comes from the coalition that brands itself good for business and economically literate. The part they don’t grasp: the $1.7bn ceiling was never a real constraint. A government that issues its own currency isn’t short of dollars for infrastructure. It’s limited by real resources, the shipyards, the steel, the crews. Those are the only things that can actually run out. Instead they picked a political number, hacked a strategic national asset to fit it, and shoved the real costs onto the next government and the next generation. Then branded it discipline. That isn’t fiscal responsibility. It’s fiscal illiteracy dressed as common sense. Strip away the myth that the country can’t afford to build, and you see it plainly: an economy being talked into a downward spiral by people who think the government is a household. Three more years of this? The Cheapest Ferry Is the Most Expensive One keenlens.substack.com/p/the-…