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To: elmatador who wrote (69436)	5/23/2008 4:25:13 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Brazil is going up and New Zealand is going down. In NZ they now ban foreigners buying things. The Canadian pension fund wanted to buy Auckland Airport but the government stopped them. The government also makes it illegal to make profits [Vector, Telecom] above some pitiful amount. I haven't had money invested in NZ for decades [other than Zenbu, RoamAD - owning a house isn't an investment to me, and especially not now]. In NZ they think the world owes them a living. It does in my case since I did the decades of learning, working, saving and investing. But in half the population they never learned much of use, they hardly work and do a bad job if they do, they don't save, they spend and borrow to do more of it, and they think an investment is buying a car and house with 100% mortgage. Mqurice PS: In NZ, they don't shoot them in the back so much as bludgeon, rape, strangle and leave the body on the side of the road hidden in bushes, or in a creek. Quite a few foreigners have been attacked. I'm surprised anyone still comes. Gaol used to be only 7 years for murder. There is still plenty of time to murder, serve some time, get out, then do some more. That's what they do. Just the other day, a murderer was released and he's not even 20, having served a few years [murder at age 12]. It shouldn't be long before he's back in gaol. tvnz.co.nz Here's his "Now I'm free" nzherald.co.nz