"Good afternoon Glaxo Welcome, how may I direct your call?"
"Hi, this is Helen Clark, can you pass a message to your CEO that he might want to watch the 6pm news?"
"Sure, who did you say you were?"
"Helen Clark, Prime Minister"
Three hours later...
"One News reports that the Cabinet has decided to regulate that Glaxo Welcome will open it's distrubution center to the Red Cross so that care packages can be sent to vitims of the flue epidemic that has yet to eventuate."
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Yes you're quite right if you're thinking that my presentation above is silly.
In response to a potential epidemic the government set up a web site with advise for people, set up a help line and sent out information packs. They didn't ring up a major supplier of products to the market and tell them that they were going to be regulated for not taking enough action to facilitate preperation.
Can anyone tell me why the government didn't write such an information pack for every New Zealand home telling us why we should all be paying for a broadband connection each month?
Where is my fridge maginet?
Frankly if I was TG I'd be looking for a new job this week. Perhaps in a country where you get to run a company without this kind of government intervention.
Cheers Don