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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (133336)	4/25/2017 4:07:56 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Recommended By 3bar Respond to of 219714

Heaps of that 71,000 are Kiwis returning from overseas. Many left during harder times and now that there's booming, they see good opportunity back home, as well as home is where the heart is. Most of the foreigners arriving are improving NZ - see Lydia Ko as one example. Lots are intellectual powerhouses too, diluting the local stupidity. As well as which many such as our neighbours arrived wealthy so bring Made in China, Produced in Korea, or Earned in Malaysia money with them. Some such as my dairy factory co-investor William Yan arrived with loads of questionable loot [he forfeited $43 million in an out of court settlement with NZ/China]. Many though are a dramatic drain on the community. nzherald.co.nz The immigration authorities are LLL [loony liberal left] types who seem to think their job is to save the world by bringing indigent people here to live off the tit of taxpayers. There are swarms of them and swarms who produce nothing and consume loads of loot. Fortunately, NZ is very attractive at present so it's possible to set high standards. But the generosity with opm is a continuing drain. There is also a very mistaken idea that more people is good and essential to making economic gains. A casual glance at Singapore, Luxembourg, Iceland, Ireland, Switzerland compared with India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia gives the lie to the more is better philosophy. Economies of scale are achieved with big populations such as the USA which can afford rockets to the moon and fleets of aircraft carriers, but it's not necessarily so that more people results in that. The idea that falling population is necessarily bad is a faulty idea too. Japan will do just fine. Germany won't if they go on replacing their people with Moslems who will turn Germany into where they came from. That's what immigrants do. They only adopt the ways of their new countries to some extent. So English people arriving in NZ didn't become Maoris, and Chinese arriving don't turn into English people. Tradable Citizenship is the way to go. Then the immigration people can be fired and the market would determine who comes [with numbers each year determined by the government - I guess about 20,000 per year would be about right which would earn about $40 billion a year. That's a good hunk of NZ government budget. It would also unleash huge economic development, making money for the people buying a citizenship. A win win win Winn all around. Voters would vote to INCREASE their personal wealth instead of focusing on getting their piece of the tragedy of the commons which causes a decline in the national value. Mqurice