Do it our way

"I chatter, chatter as I flow, to join the brimming river. For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever." Lord Tennyson.

New Zealand is in the poo. The credibility of our politicians has dropped below used car and insurance salesmen. All three try and sell you something overpriced and inappropriate for your needs. Then they have the cheek to describe themselves as knowledgeable.

NZ is run by a Labour Party Coalition. The only real opposition is the National Party led by newcomer, Don Brash. He's the ex governor of the Reserve Bank and deliberately kept interest rates one of the highest in the civilised world. He's a firm believer that the world revolves around money and his actions have shown his total disregard for people. All he can see are dollars signs. It's business, business and more business. People are a cost to business and costs must be reduced in the name of profit. He's a typical politician and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him.

Helen Clark is the Prime Minister and is running second to Brash in the polls. She's an ex political activist from her university days and has developed political correctness as a dying art form. How she seriously believes the people will continue to back her is beyond belief. I stood next to her a few years back but didn't develop the urge to knock her lights out. Maybe I should have done. Then again, violence never achieves anything. She's on the way out anyway.

The main trouble with our politicians is that they seriously believe that they are superior
human beings with the God given right to interfere in our private lives. The controversial anti smoking legislation is merely one example. If you bother complaining about something, all you get is a load of political waffle that means absolutely nothing. You're treated with contempt and made to feel you're a complete nincompoop for challenging their authoritative agenda. How dare you complain? We know what's best, so mind your own business and give us your money or we'll hound you into bankruptcy. One way or another, NZ is one of the highest taxed nations on earth. Yet government services aren't worth 10% of anybody's income or expenditure.

Government has a current surplus of around $7.4 billion dollars. The annual budget is due in a couple of weeks and it's bribe time. 'Fifty thousand families will get an extra $70 a week. We're going to do this and going to do that. Everybody will be better off. So vote your wallet and elect us again. Haven't we done well?'

They forget that the $7.4 billion belongs to the people. It's not money created by
government. They did nothing to earn a single cent. It's money stolen by overcharging for
largely unwanted services. Yet health care is pathetic, education is a laugh and corruption is emerging in high places. A number of top cops are under investigation for sex crimes. The lies politicians tell are so blatant. It makes one want to spew. Talented Kiwis are moving offshore in droves. Certain politicians have decided they don't like Asian immigrants, thus causing the economy to slow. There's virtually no manufacturing to employ the common herd and the only jobs available for the young are Mac Jobs. Statistics are manipulated to make employment look better. Males more than forty are virtually unemployable and you have to be as thick as two short planks to work for government or local council.

The ability to think and exercise commonsense used to be considered an asset. But not today. The politicians require total compliance of an unthinking population. Stick your head up and there's thousands of rules and regulations to behead you. The tall poppy syndrom is alive and well in Godzone. With the system bulldozing personal initiative into the dust, future generations will be little more than mindless zombies. But I guess that's exactly what the politicians want. How they justify their behaviour is unfathomable.