Straight talking trumps politically correct platitudes

I read two straight talking articles this week that provided welcome relief from the rather superficial and politically correct reporting that seems to dominate newspapers like the Dominion Post these days:

• Time to end use of Treaty partnership framework to justify reforms: Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie put into words what I suspect many New Zealanders are thinking—that the pursuit of reparations for past wrongs has overstepped the mark and become a bit of a gravy train.
  
• Benefit meant for downtrodden, not to fund lifestyle choices: The payment of subsidies and grants has become a 'right' in the minds of some, to the detriment of the rest of us. Karl du Fresne's piece brought some much-needed balance to the debate over whether the state should prop up the lifestyle choices of the so-called needy.

Thank you for Messrs Morgan, Guthrie and du Fresne for your forthright articles which, I suspect, reflect the views of the majority of New Zealanders. The time for the silent majority to push back on those self-indulgent folk who make an art-form of political correctness and living off the state is upon us.