Google to run the state sector?

One can see the National mind working. Let's contract out state sector functions to Google, based on everyone having a smartphone (which, of course, in Mr Key's world is a standard good). So does Mr Key propose to take us back into an archaic dependence on overseas Capital and knowledge. It would be funny if it were not so serious. The ideological and closed-minded harrying of the state sector - from erosion of the core provision to privatisation - is nothing more than the manifestation of National's desire to turn our sovereign status over to the whims of a small elite here in NZ in cahoots with foreign Capital.

I say in all seriousness - if this is the future of NZ as a sovereign state under National, the quicker we accept that our future is as a state in the Australian federal system, the better. If not, our decline into banana republic status will be evermore precipitous.