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To: elmatador who wrote (15883)	3/24/2007 5:55:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 220085

Not quite all: <All the vital energy of the country has been drained. They deserve the thier fate and we should not shed a tear fro them.> There are flickering lights here and there, being snuffed out if they stay. Mostly, they leave for other countries where freedom is not any greater in most instances, but opportunities are a lot greater. Weirdly, NZ rates quite well in many ways, such as economic freedom [so they say]. I think well over half the country is now suckling on the taxpayer in one way or another, for their livelihood. So, the majority have an incentive to increase government imposts on the producers. They vote to do so each election. The takers: The old The young The infirm The unemployable The lazy The government swarms who allocate the welfare funds The teacher unions The medical guilds The medical industry The legal guilds The universities The technical institutes The government owned monopoly businesses The local authorities The central government hordes The prisoners The government's buddies on the take [women, Maoris, consultants, special interest groups by the swarm] Then there are all the debilitations inflicted on regular humans such as traffic jams, arbitrary rules, environmental MADness [as in mutual assured destruction], permits, restrictions, regulations and vast reams of controls. NZ people have got control of one of the most splendid countries on the planet and have ruined the opportunity to create paradise on Earth. We are in good company, because most countries could fit that description, at least in part [Greenland is a bit chilly in the mountains]. So yes, we deserve our fate. We have voted ourselves into it and the gurgling noises continue, while the screams and cries of terrorized, tortured and killed, children and others fill the air on a regular basis. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (15883)	3/24/2007 5:20:00 PM
From: Gib Bogle	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 220085

It's quite amusing how people listen to Maurice's rants and believe they know how life is in NZ. Such faith! You should stop to question why he still lives here, and why hordes of people from Hong Kong and China have moved here. Of course, the arrival of all these Chinese people makes Maurice unhappy, but still not unhappy enough to leave. He is right about the nervous Nellies being currently in charge, but wrong to to think that this is a uniquely NZ phenomenon, and wrong to give the impression that this is the whole story. For all its rules, NZ is still overall one of the better places to live. As far as I'm concerned the main drawbacks are cultural - the way I look at it, the people and their culture create the government, not the other way around.