New Zealand Politicians: Who do they work for?

Recently an old friend (and I mean old, he's over 83) went into one of his usual rants about the CIA controlling all our politicians and businessmen. A man of his years and experience is not to be dismissed lightly of course, but I confess to listening with only half an ear; all this CIA stuff was so reminiscent of the Famous Five type meetings we had when we organised anti-Viet Nam war demonstrations; we would huddle in our cold-water flats assuring each other that the SIS and the CIA were tapping out telephones, opening our mail and even follwoing us in the street.
However when I read more and more about the plans of this Tory government (assisted by Poodle Goff and his Right Wing Chums in the Maori Party, ACT and that curiously coiffed fellow, Dunne) to introduce the new laws allowing the SIS and other government departments to eaves drop on all of our communications and the "free trade" agreements they are all so keen on, I have had to reassess Tom's Theorem.
In solving crime the rule is "follow the money"; if someone benefits from a situation financially it is reasonable to see if that person could have planned and then brought that particular situation into being. It seems a good and efficient tool; why not apply it to politicians?
So look at "free trade";
1. We are required to allow unlimited access to our market of any of "their" products, but they are not rquired to take ours, especially agricultural products;
2. We must not subsidise or protect any industry, as subsidies equal sin; they are allowed to subsidise, apply quotas and so on, again especially around agricultural products;
3. We must not "bulk buy" through organs like Pharmac to save us all money and to be big enough to deal on an equal-ish footing with Big Pharma Companies; the result is predicted to be a trebling of drug and medicine costs;
4. We must abandon all arrangements like Accident Compensation and allow large insurance companies to take over - resulting in a trebling of costs and halving of pay-outs - lawyers will again be allowed to make money out of the misery of the sick and injured;
5. We cannot apply our own copyright laws, but must accept theirs. So we have to pay for "brand" items and can't parallel import.
"They" and "theirs" when used above always means a power bloc we seem determined to please and appease - US, Europe, China etc.
So the result is that we get nothing out of these deals at all, but we pay three or four times as much for services and products than we do at present. Also, by any analysis all these arrangements are (despite the naming "free" trade) anti-competitive,restrictive and tend to promote monopolies. They also assure that foreign companies can buy anything in New Zealand and take all the profits overseas.
Add to this the reluctance of the Tories (again, to be clear, Goff and his Labour mates are far more Tory than National) to limit the sale of our agricultural base (land) to foreigners.
So, follow the money. Who benefits? Not a single New Zealand worker. Not a single New Zealand business enterprise with fewer than 1000 employees. In fact the benefits flow overseas, always in that one direction. Also we abandon all sovreign control over laws and law-making.
So if a politician, voted in by New Zealanders, cooperates with arrangements which cost New Zealanders jobs and money, who should we say they work for?
Perhaps Tom is right.