Stick to riding whales Keisha!

What is it with actors and celebrities who think that they can tell us all how to run our lives?
The Saint previously blogged on this very subject back in May with the post: "Adding 'schelb' to do-good causes". At the time, I opined how it was both arrogant and pompous of so-called "celebrities" to lecture us little people on cause celebs they want to endorse.
Now before the Saint is accused of being a right-wing, one-eyed, fascist, Tory git - as he has been by at least one of his tiny following of readers - I am not saying people can't express opinions that I don't agree with. Even though this would make me so smug and superior compared to the average punter - a bit like the bunch luvvies lecturing NZ to back Greenpeace's campaign and reduce our carbon emissions by 40% by the year 2020.
But let's put this campaign into perspective and what it would really mean for our economy. The only way NZ could make such a ridiculous target would mean eliminating around one fifth - or 700,000 cows - from the country's dairy herd. Now what the faux self-proclaimed eco warriors fronting this Khmer Green, eco-terrorist campaign forget to mention is that the dairy industry contributes something like 27% of NZ's export earnings. You know, the income the country earns so it can pay for things like schools, hospitals, nurses, teachers, roads (even though actors and Greenies never use them - yeah right), police and nice to have things like grants for cultural activies - such as theatre and ballet etc.
So the Saint finds it somewhat ironic that the only reason most actors in NZ survive is by bludging off the public tit. Yet, it is these same people who are now telling us - during the worst recession in 70 years - that we should slash our dairy herd and biggest export earner by 20% - just so they can feel smug and superior. Guess who would be the first to whinge and moan if their acting junkets were given the chop due to the drop in national income from their genocide of NZ's productive sector? You bet your tax payer-funded art scheme they would!
So what is Keisha and her mates' wonderful solution? That we slaughter 700,00 cows from the national dairy herd. But they spin it so nicely by calling it "de-stocking". What it really means is killing 700,000 cows and making our farms less productive and thus the country less productive. No cars, no trucks and 700,000 less cows. But no doubt, by converting all these cowless farms to organic mung bean production will have the cash pouring in and solve are worsen balance of payments problems!
Sorry, but Lucy Lawless might be hot and Robyn Malcolm able to play a westie-slapper so well you would swear she really is one! But that does not make them experts on climate change. As for Keisha Castle-Hughes, as far as the Saint knows, her only qualification to lead the country on this course of economic suicide - is a best supporting actress Oscar nomination when she was about 10 and getting knocked up by some loser called Bradley and going on the DPB at 16. So eminently qualified, obviously!
So when PM John Key told her to "stick to acting" this week - it was not an insult, but good advice! Greenpeace, the Greens and Keisha Castle-Hughes and her mates are the trying to tell the world how to run our lives. So why is it not fair enough for the PM to tell this little do-gooder how to run hers?
Stick to riding whales Keisha, so far your record outside the acting profession is not so fantastic.