mmeggs, well, the joke's on us in NZ too because the Labour party has just announced they will legislate for another weeks holiday, when they become the next government which does seem likely according to the polls.
I am sure that 'creating work' would be a reason behind the reduced hours in France. Job sharing ideas.
However, the high tax burden in New Zealand means that people are finding ways of escaping from the clutches of socialist bludgers. For example, I invest in QUALCOMM and Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd [a Bermudan company] which means my capital is not available in New Zealand.
It's funny here also because there is xenophobia - people generally don't like evil foreigners buying New Zealand. Especially it is funny because everyone here descended from foreigners, including Maoris who only arrived a few hundred years ago to a land populated only by Moas and other harmless fauna. Nothing here had defence mechanisms to speak of. No teeth, spikes, poisons.
So animals and plants imported with immigrants have destroyed much of the natural world. Maoris killed off the Moas, and gorse took over the landscape. Possums are eating much of the forests.
Capital originated outside New Zealand. Maoris in the 19th century had the wit to see that attracting foreign capital was a good idea. Now most people here think foreign capital is a bad thing - or rather, a good thing, but only if they get to steal it.
Russia used to simply keep people prisoner - shooting those who tried to run over the border, even if they didn't take assets with them. Same for China. Unfortunately for the statists of the world, people like their freedom and keep finding new ways to escape.
With cyberland beckoning, it is going to be even harder to pin people down. QUALCOMM, Globalstar and Microsoft are going to help bring it about. [See this is on topic]
National borders, statist control and monkey hierarchies are in big trouble. Watch the USA do its best to stop high power encryption. Can't have people escaping the land of the free and brave.
Mqurice
PS: ***Warning OT rant follows*** Since we are picking people to despise, how about those Jews? And watch out Jason, there are poofters galore in New York! Luckily in New Zealand there are few Africans. But we get planes full of goddam Yankee tourists escaping from their bullet and drug ridden, Big Mac, car yard cultural desert to the harmonious wonderland of Aotearoa.
Ah the Champs Elysee! Wonderful place apart from the skunklike Frogmen. Trouble is there are lots of Catholics in France, but at least they don't burn witches at the stake any more. Though seeing how much trouble the lesbian Feminazis cause these days, it's a wonder. Next thing you know there'll be women chanting the catechism.
Ooops, nearly forgot the Pakistanis. You'd think after the British brought civilisation to India, the 'Indians' would have had the decency to stay in their own country, but no, they contrived to marry wayward British which meant it became difficult to know just who was British and who wasn't. Now there are conspicuously melanin-producing people who have parents and even grandparents born in Britain.
We need some way to maintain our cultural and racial purity. The skunklike French have inflicted 'restaurants' on us, but don't like 'le computer' being inflicted back. I heard some even got into Canada and parts of the USA. Louisiana has a suspicious name and so does New Orleans.
Well, back to the crusades. With DNA testing, we should be able to sort out the fractal pattern of human DNA into some clear cut 'goodies' and 'baddies' so we know who to most hold in contempt.
Trouble is, without the fractal, chaotic melding of random DNA, won't we start to look like hillbillies in Pennsylvania?
Bring on DNA selection and cloning!
[While we are despising the skunklike French, you know the Statue of Liberty was a creation of France? Heard of liberte, egalite, fraternite?] |
