01-01-2025, 02:26 PM
(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.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)