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We Should Not Go Quietly - harm_less - 18-12-2024
Interesting and worrying read: https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/18/the-long-neoliberal-con/
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - Lilith7 - 18-12-2024
THAT does not sound like a democracy.
I've been trying to stop swearing lately; but this callous, underhanded govt is making that extremely difficult.
Devious, underhanded, money focused band of b'stards.
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - Lilith7 - 20-12-2024
The Atlas network...
https://www.psa.org.nz/our-voice/understanding-atlas-how-a-right-wing-network-is-building-global-influence/
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/12/18/the-long-neoliberal-con/
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - zqwerty - 20-12-2024
Money making is all they have, it's their central focus, morally and ethically bereft.
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - Lilith7 - 20-12-2024
(20-12-2024, 11:19 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Money making is all they have, it's their central focus, morally and ethically bereft.
I suspect that they're mentally flawed somehow; they clearly lack empathy.
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - zqwerty - 20-12-2024
Underlying it all is they just want to be in power and have the final say.
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - Lilith7 - 20-12-2024
(20-12-2024, 04:04 PM)zqwerty Wrote: Underlying it all is they just want to be in power and have the final say.
Why anyone wants to have huge power is incomprehensible.
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - C_T_Russell - 22-12-2024
The big question here is how a right wing politician was in labour to begin with?
I don't like many of his policies he introduced, but at the same time NZ was left in a ton of debt by the previous national government.
Now it's the other way round and we were left with 120 billion dollars of debt by the last labour government.
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - zqwerty - 22-12-2024
The right wingers infiltrated the Labour Party to undermine it.
Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble and the New Right in the Labour Party, do you not remember that?
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - Lilith7 - 22-12-2024
(22-12-2024, 11:22 AM)zqwerty Wrote: The right wingers infiltrated the Labour Party to undermine it.
Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble and the New Right in the Labour Party, do you not remember that?
Roger Douglas, the Trojan horse.
And they gave that man a knighthood...
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - zqwerty - 22-12-2024
I'll cheerfully dance on both their graves and pee as well.
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - Lilith7 - 23-12-2024
(22-12-2024, 04:22 PM)zqwerty Wrote: I'll cheerfully dance on both their graves and pee as well.
I may have to join you in that, dancing anyway, fairly sure I can remember the odd bit of belly dancing..
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - 1101 - 31-12-2024
(22-12-2024, 11:22 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble and the New Right in the Labour Party, do you not remember that?
I remember it. And I remember why
NZ was an economic basket case after the Muldoon years . A wage & price freeze as a last desperate gasp to try & fix inflation. Total govt control over everything . Total Govt monopolies over everything .
Import bans and tarrifs to try & prop up NZ companies .
Douglas had the task to Bring NZ out of the 1950's way of doing things. That was allways going to cause pain .
RE: We Should Not Go Quietly - Lilith7 - 01-01-2025
(31-12-2024, 07:30 PM)1101 Wrote:(22-12-2024, 11:22 AM)zqwerty Wrote: Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble and the New Right in the Labour Party, do you not remember that?
I remember it. And I remember why
NZ was an economic basket case after the Muldoon years . A wage & price freeze as a last desperate gasp to try & fix inflation. Total govt control over everything . Total Govt monopolies over everything .
Import bans and tarrifs to try & prop up NZ companies .
Douglas had the task to Bring NZ out of the 1950's way of doing things. That was allways going to cause pain .
While this country may have needed change, we did not need brutal bashing & slashing. Under Neo Liberalism the few did very nicely at the expense of many, which is still the case today thanks to successive govts since.