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If��I��was a nurse, I'd take it.��Nine per cent��is a good deal.����

It's��a better deal than the��independent panel put forward, it��comes with a couple of grand as a sign up payment,��more money for recruiting and better callout payments.����

It��takes the average income of a nurse to almost $100,000 a year.����

That I��suspect in most people’s books,��and this is the key to all of this,��is a pretty good deal. And they'd be pushing it uphill if they still want to strike.����

And��the��"key” is public support,��and nurses more than most��have it in bucket loads for fairly obvious and sensible reasons.����

But��as��in all things in life,��there is a quid pro quo and in this case,��it's about what's fair and reasonable.����

And nine per cent is more than fair and reasonable,��no one else is getting anywhere close. And if they want to scrap it out,��part of their argument is over pay parity with teachers, and they��want 11 per cent.

But��once you go down that track,��you're in real trouble given the education unions are from another age,��out to lunch and have no��one's best interests at heart but their own.����

And��that’s before you get to the simple reality that the nurses deal alone is well in excess of half a billion dollars,��and��DHBs don’t actually have half a billion dollars.

You can't just magic up money because you feel aggrieved when it comes to a wage.

And further might��I��point out that the ongoing argument used by many,��that nurses haven't got decent pay rises previously,��is not a good argument to mount now. Pay rises don’t accrue.����

If��you feel hard done by five years back you don’t get to make it up another day. Life��doesn’t work like that. Your contract is up,��you argue your case,��you settle an agreement,��you move forward.

But��here's where this is dangerous,��let's say the nurses see sense and get nine per cent,��that’s on top of the huge increase for midwives in the budget.

And let's say the teachers end up with a big number too,��add that to the aged care workers last year,��and what have you got? Workplace wide expectation.

Everyone with their hand out,��and where does that lead? Unemployment.

Because little if any of this is based on productivity. In other words, nothing more is getting made,��nothing new is getting done. It's just the cost of doing it has gone up,��and there are very few if any employers outside the state sector that have the billions sitting around to cover that sort of bill.����

And��that's before you get to the fact it's inflationary,��which leads to rising interest rates and so it goes.����

Nurses��deserve more,��teachers deserve more. But we are now at the point of,��how much more? And who pays and can they pay?

What is the bigger picture of just seeing a soft, left-leaning government who are union friendly and painted for their own political purposes?����A landscape of misery and woe in the workforce thus creating what now looks to be a wildly out of control cash bonanza by all and sundry.����

This��isn't��Lotto,��it's real money and a bucket load of it.

So��if the expectation isn't��curtailed by realism,��people will be going broke.����

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