<Still trembling when you see Asian students and immigrants in "your" backyard, are you?>
Yes, it's a shame to have beggars and other free-loaders taking over my and my ancestors' efforts and assets without paying for them.
However, I would do, and have done, exactly the same. We went to live in Canada and now our son owns it, having been born there. Crazy Canadians, just giving it away like that. We went and lived in Belgium, me working for BP Oil International, and the Belgian government paid us about $1000 a month just because we had a bunch of children. I presumed they'd made a mistake so went and explained that we were foreigners, I had a well-paying job and all that and didn't need the money, but they insisted that that was the way it works in Belgium. So we accepted the money [which was actually paid to my wife]. Crazy but true!
If NZ is too stupid to see what's happening, we deserve to lose what we've got and produced. The world isn't kind to the stupid.
It's not that the immigrants aren't invited in.
I make them all welcome if they have got in. It's not their fault that the NZ government and public are stupid. If they don't accept the goodies, hordes more will. They have to grab it while it's going.
It's weird seeing it happen though. The funny thing is, they come here because it's so nice, then proceed to turn it into the unpleasant and even nasty places they've come from. Which is not surprising.
Tradable citizenship rights, with a market on the Big Board - that would force better government policy as citizens see their share value go down with dumb decisions. People could sell up and buy into a better, or cheaper, country. Then foreigners wanting to come could simply buy the rights and be an instant Kiwi, and nobody could call them a bludger.
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