To: kech who wrote (9097 ) 3/7/1998 7:10:00 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (4) | Respond to
Tom, not the USofA, just the people trying to wreck it. There is heaps wrong with NZ. Not enough for me to live elsewhere, though cold winters [8 deg C often enough] is nearly enough to get me to leave. NZ is a peculiar place. It moves quickly politically because we have just one political boss. No checks and balances, Congress, Senate etc. Prime Minister takes all. Then gets booted out at the next election. So like a manic depressive, we have intense market freedom, sudden rushes of blood to the head over nukes on warships [it seems an obvious place to put nuclear bombs to me and if you are going to blow people up, you might as well do a good job of it], then suddenly back to communism, then off we go for state-ordered "how to bring up children and run your life" which has just been posted out to the population a week or two ago. Now all squabbling over that - which is really an effort to get a grip on welfare bludgers. Meanwhile, the electricity supplier to Auckland mucked up their cable handling, capacity management and busted all 4 cables. Now central Auckland is running on 30% of the original needed supply, with all sorts of jack up arrangements, including a ship berthed nearby, to supply a hodgepodge of emergency rations.
