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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (124053)	1/30/2004 7:04:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<Welfare should be reserved from those who are incapable of doing for themselves, or performing a productive service to society. But that is a relatively small percentage of our population..> Hawk, the NZ government spends over half the money spent in NZ [I think it might be about 55%]. A big chunk of that spending is on welfare. The old, unemployed, injured, sick, minding children, mentally incapable and sundry others are all funded by the tax payers. About a third of NZ's population gets all of their income from the government without having to do anything. When teachers, bureaucrats, police, army, nurses, doctors and swarms of others are included, perhaps 60% of the population is totally dependent on government income to live. No wonder they go on voting for more of it. Unless they figure out that the goose that lays the golden egg is increasingly fleeing to Australia, USA, Switzerland and elsewhere, they might yet kill it [and therefore themselves]. I wish our proportion was as small as that of the USA. Mqurice