Maurice:
<Now, hordes of immigrants, who did nothing to build this country, move into the area, open an electricity account and immediately have the same ownership as I do of the electricity supply, not to mention roads, hospitals, schools and a lot more besides.>
I had no idea you were a Maori! But I guess you meant to say ‘recent' immigrants. And of course they did little to "build" the country as you say.
Those cannibals got what was coming to them. Always convenient when you the civilization in your way is morally depraved. Makes their removal less troubling to the righteous god-fearing colonialist. But who am i to call the kettle black with the american history of native american genocide. But what is history but the obituary of nations...
Not that i don't sympathize with your point...being the anti-immigration zealot myself. Although in the US such beliefs are highly politically incorrect. But of course we still have the frontier mentality that land and resources are infinite - a belief system not so easily shared by the island dwellers of the world.
Interesting rant about the power company. Again i sympathize except for your whining about government. <They, like all government enterprises I ever dealt with, were remarkably inefficient, wasteful, extravagant, lazy and frustrating.> To use Jay's concept, that fact that governments are these things is neither right or wrong, but ‘just is'. But as the people of California learned last year, government run or government regulated can provide stability (both in terms of price and supply) to ‘essential' services like electricity.
So we take our pick: inefficient, wasteful but stable government service or efficient, unstable private supply. Or somewhere in between.
John |
