25-01-2023, 03:57 AM
(24-01-2023, 09:20 PM)zqwerty Wrote: They are lucky to have the jobs they have supplying the nation with economic food not trying to get the highest prices they can overseas and shortage supplying the home market to get the maximum prices here.
Government needs to step in with regulation of the marketplace including , electricity, petrol, food, no exporting until the home market is well supplied with reasonably priced food.
Nationalization has failed as a policy because it hasn't delivered lower prices promised, we are being ripped off at every turn.
New right economic policies are a failed nonsense and should be forgotten. Trickle-down is a joke.
We need to setup Fortress New Zealand, while we still have time.
Electrify the main trunk line, diversify, diversify, diversify.
We had the time and opportunity to get this message during the covid years, remember the calls for a New Normal? But it didn't happen. Just as soon as we could we grabbed total amnesia and went back to old bad habits.
I suspect climate change will suffer the same wilful ignorance and our grandchildren will be the ones forced into decisive action as the waves take the ground their parents stood on.
Humanity is a stupid selfcentred species.