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To: KyrosL who wrote (69233)	5/11/2008 6:07:37 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I'm okay, being an international capitalist. I earn my money from China buying CDMA, shipping the money to Qualcomm, who pay a tithe to King George II and ship the remaining profit to me which I use to buy Made in China [and Japan] and hire NZers to run cafes etc, or Brazilians and other immigrants who manage to get past the border guards who are too busy letting their buddies bring in drugs for profit to bother much with swarms of immigrants who desperately want to get into the taxpayer funded trough. There have been many swindles for low value immigrants to score a citizenship worth about $2 million for no cost and to even be provided houses and cash to have a life they couldn't dream of in their own wasteland home countries. I don't have to spend time in the government-organized traffic jams and in low-paid employment resulting from economic destruction by politicians and their supportive electorate. People are moaning now about the price of fuel, mortgages, food and other things, but they will vote yet again in November for more of the same, which caused the problems they complain of. Aborigines are not the same as Maoris. Yes, they have similar social horrors in their tribal context, but Maoris are so numerous and mixed in with everyone else that NZ has adopted Maori culture to a large extent. That does not involve Protestant work ethic and ethical Virtuous Victorian Values which are generally scoffed at these days - at great cost to everyone. Over half the prisoners in NZ are Maori. That's not the case in Australia. <The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) reported in 1991. At that time, Aboriginal people made up 14% of the total prison population and were up to 15 times more likely to be in prison than non-Aboriginal people[130]. It made a large number of recommendations to address this issue[131] Despite this, the number of Indigenous prisoners increased over the last decade: Indigenous people represented 22% of the total prisoner population as at 30 June 2005.[132] The total number in prison increased by 12% over 2004 to 2005 (from 5,084 to 5,656)[133].> If I go somewhere, it'll be northern hemisphere in southern winter, for a few months. NZ is great in summer. Mqurice