I prefer to think of it as repugnant theft, stealing money from future generations. Robbing the ignorant, clueless and yet to be born of a level playing field, access to health care, education, general opportunities that we take for granted.
The sideshow distraction of the flag debate, as if the minions are too farking clueless to see what's really going on (and, yeap, I reckon sheep **** has more political/governance IQ than a great phalanx of the voting public), has passed stage one and at some stage in the future we get to waste more of our kids and grandkids money on another referendum to decide upon the order of rearrangement of the deck chairs on the NZ titanic. That is to say, decide upon whether the old one stays or goes.
Such is the BS and extravagance that passes for good governance these days.