IT’S BEEN 43 YEARS since a National Party finance minister rose to deliver a Budget in which real increases to social welfare benefits were announced. In 1972, the then finance minister, Rob Muldoon, increased government spending by a whopping 16.2 percent – and much of it went to beneficiaries. Of course, the level of welfare spending in 1972 was considerably less than today’s. The unemployment rate, for example, was well below 1 percent and there was no Domestic Purposes Benefit. New Zealand’s generous superannuation scheme still lay in the future. Even so, 1972’s was a particularly generous budget. “That’s it,” Muldoon cheekily informed his non-plussed Labour opponents, “I’ve spent the lot!”
Muldoon’s cheery admission should alert us to just how different the world was 43 years ago. Economic thinking was still dominated by the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, and, as Muldoon would later quip: “Most New Zealanders wouldn’t recognise a deficit if they tripped over one in the street.” Forty-three years later, the National Party Finance Minister, Bill English, has, with considerable reluctance, increased government spending by 2.5 percent – not quite enough to keep pace with the projected rate of inflation and population growth. New Zealand’s economic performance may be one of the best in the OECD, but nobody in 2015 would dream of increasing state spending by 16.2 percent!
All of which gives the lie to those who, like former finance minister, Sir Michael Cullen, insist that John Key does not preside over a neoliberal administration. Because, what Bill English has given with one hand he has ruthlessly snatched back with the other. In 11 months’ time, the poorest New Zealanders will receive a $25.00 per week increase in their benefits – just enough to keep them from the clutches of utter destitution. But, as of 2:00pm on Thursday, 21 May 2015, the Government’s $1,000 kick-start grants to new Kiwi-Saver accounts ceased.
Which is not to say that this budget isn’t a highly successful exercise in political mollification and repositioning. In the run-up to last year’s general election, pollsters were reporting that one of the few questions registering a strong lead for Labour was about which party had the best response to the problem of child poverty. Even among National Party voters there was a clear and rising level of concern over the number of Kiwi kids living in need, and the Government’s response was generally acknowledged to be inadequate. Bill English’s budget measures will, almost certainly, have mollified these conscience-stricken voters of the Centre. At the same time they have blocked-off one of the very few remaining avenues into National territory. Labour will now have to find another way of reaching what it still insists are “soft” National voters.
But how “soft” are these voters, really? Bill English may have surprised the commentariat by increasing benefit levels, but he was careful to ring his $25.00 bounty with new and tougher obligations on sole parents. From the age of just 3 years, beneficiaries’ children are expected to be enrolled in early childhood educational institutions, while their parents go out to work for a minimum of 20 hours per week. Nothing “soft” about that!
Indeed, it was to avoid the charge that they had gone “soft on beneficiaries” (as in “soft on communism”) that Labour, for nine long years, steadfastly refused to restore benefit payments to the levels they were at in July 1991, when Ruth Richardson, in her “Mother of All Budgets”, slashed them by the equivalent of $43.00 in today’s money. No matter how many statistics the academic husband and wife team of David and Liz Craig assembled and presented; no matter how dire the evidence of real and growing hardship among beneficiary families; or even of the alarming spikes in poverty-related diseases recorded by the nation’s public hospitals; the Labour-led government of Helen Clark remained unmoved. It’s neoliberal advisers in Treasury and the Ministry of Social Development insisted that the “incentivising” gap between benefits and wages be maintained – and it was.
By 2015, however, the size of that gap had grown to such proportions that even Treasury was prepared to acknowledge that it might be time to relent – just a little. And, God knows! $25.00 per week is not a lot! Still, no one should be under any illusions that English’s minimal adjustments will do anything to loosen the bars of the cruel poverty trap in which as many as a quarter-of-a-million New Zealand children remain imprisoned.
Many years ago now, at a swanky Auckland restaurant, I found myself seated next to a well-known right-wing journalist. Not surprisingly, we ended up arguing about Rogernomics and Ruthanasia. I asked her this question: “What would you do if you were told that in order to go on receiving all the good things you currently enjoy, you would first have to consent to a person being chained up in a dungeon and fed your scraps?” Well, she hummed and hawed for a while, and then offered me this quite extraordinary reply. It would be alright, she said, because, as she became richer, she’d make sure the prisoner received more food, and that his chains were loosened, “so he could move about a bit”.
If you can be reconciled to that way of thinking, then you will have no difficulty whatsoever in both understanding and endorsing Bill English’s 2015 Budget.
We can no longer pretend that New World Order is a conspiracy theory,and we are lefty loonies for believing it.,anyone with a modicum of brain power can see we are being taken over,not just by John Key,he is just a tool .
Wake Up NZ shows the extent of the criminal activity in the USA by the CIA to make war on other countries. This has been a costly exercise for the people,massive profits for war profiteers.
There is no end to the control by any means possible ,not just by CIA but collusion by banks to suck money out of the system illegally.
Wake up New Zealand tells of a worldwide move to drop MSM for alternative media.
MSM will fool us any way they can and lead people to believing the truth is what they will want us to know, not what is the honest truth.
We cant trust TV so called news anymore.
Publications the world over are in the hands of cartels , read in Wakeup New Zealand about the origins of BBC in UK . TDB is one of the main sources of truthful information in NZ .
The problem is no longer John Key ,he is a small player in the bigger picture,a tool of OWO. The other problem is apathy of people in expecting “someone” else to solve the problem ,to find out what’s going on behind the scenes, John Campbell bucked the system so was
shut down ,this is how governments operate to keep us in the dark,they might find this will backfire,people have had enough of being manipulated.Get the news from alternative media, give up on MSM.
You could have said the same thing without sounding so crazy, then maybe people would take what you said more seriously.
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Uninformed , willingly negligent.
Therefore irrelevant.
Good points,Chris. They are rearranging the dummies in the shop window. Behind that, the deal,particularly for sole parents and their three year olds, is corrosive and despicable. Now, as before, we are in need of more enlightened government.
Jo Planet
I wouldn’t use the word “enlightened” as that was what Joseph Goebbels did back in 1933 to get to Nazism with his “Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda” media machinery to brainwash the entire German public during that era say Yale law school..
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/2030-ps.asp
Strangely is it any coincidence that during the 2014 election campaign National also used the term widely and used a promotion agency out of a Hamilton postal location called “enlightenment associates”.
This agency that has since disappeared was included on the 2014 National Party website at that time as their election strategy consultancy.
Use “free thinking imaginative” it sounds more real.
”NO ONE SHALL STAND IN THE WAY OF OUR NEW WORLD ORDER AND THE ENLIGHTENED THOUSAND POINTS OF LIGHT ”.
– George Bush Senior in a televised speech issued to world press following the first Gulf War and the invasion of Kuwait.
The thousand points of light is a Masonic term used to designate geographic area’s of masonic ‘enlightenment .
NOVO ORDO SECLORUM is the Latin phrase on the American dollar bill – the Great Seal of America.
It means literally – New World Order.
1000% WILD KATIPO
Thanks for that, bang on mate.
Your economic theories seem to be cross-wired Chris.
Since the 2008 GFC the National Party has run a highly Keynesian economy with increased government debt and lots of large scale construction projects (eg: Christchurch rebuild and motorways in Auckland).
1000% Andrew, this National Government are loading NZ with hidden Crown debt now approaching $100 Billion!!!!
Not $8 Billion as it was when the NatZ took over in 2008?
So the recently released estimates from treasury predict the ChCh rebuild will only cost Government $17 Billion of the 38 Billion and Insurances & EQC will pay the rest so where has the other 60+ Billion gone to?
Auckland, Auckland, Auckland, of course where the votes are being bought using borrowed money we will spend our lives repaying back!!!..
When looking at the increase in debt we must not forget the recession, which required a lot of borrowing to maintain the spending we were doing.
Plus to pay for $3to $4 billion in lost revenue from two unaffordable tax cuts.
Don’t forget that little number, Ben.
Tax cuts are a legitimate part of a recessionary response to economic management. They stimulate demand, and are a very conventional element of deficit funding through tough times. I am thankful NZ has run a deficit funding approach – the alternative austerity approaches can cause massive social discohesion, something NZ has managed to avoid. My main beef with the last Labour Govt. was it’s unwillingness to use surplus’s to cut taxes. The recession may not have been as long or as deep if they had. For a sound analysis of the 2010 tax cuts, I recommend http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10646343.
Yes, maybe a better plan would be the austerity that the Tories have been re-elected for in the UK?
Our day of reckoning for all that debt will surely come!
Chose your poison. 😉
Andrew, you make the Christchurch rebuild sound like it was planned from 2008?
Fascinating. I wasn’t aware that the National Party had time travellers amongst their staff, who knew of the ‘quakes beforehand.
Andrew fails totally to realize the difference between true Keynesianism and the continued practice of neo liberalism.
And regards the finance Key has borrowed continuously since his being in office, that borrowing was his way to ensure the rich were enabled in having tax cuts.
At the cost of the rest of us.
All $250,000,000 and now $300,000,000 per week of it.
True Keynesian economics borrows to stimulate the domestic economy among other things by such things as public works, and development of small business opportunity’s.
So far we got a bicycle path from Key.
This is also why the arrogant John Key was humiliated by Winston Peters by Winston steamrolling National and taking that seat off of them.
Why?…. because the people of Northland saw right through Key and his neo liberal govt ideologies and were not having a bar of it.
For too many DECADES they had put up with the lies, bribes , degradation , false promises and quite frankly , – bullshit of neo liberal politicians.
And so they voted accordingly.
The sleight of hand is about as clumsy as a magician with 4 thumbs.
ANY FOOL can work out that the rise in G S T 4 – 5 years ago has already depleted a beneficiaries income by around 25 dollars a week and therefore paid for their increase in advance.
The breathtaking cynicism of this government knows no bounds and to her credit at least i heard one reporter ask Key (at his corporate rent a crowd lunch)
If he could see any irony in sitting down to a 300 dollar a head lunch to discuss giving the down and out a 25 dollar per week increase in a years time.
As soon as I saw the nose wrinkle I switched off.
My biggest concern (and it ties in with losing Campbell Live) is the wilful misreporting from the likes of Duncan Garner on Radio Live.
If Hosking , Henry and Garner are allowed free reign NZ is stuffed!
If Hosking , Henry and Garner are allowed free reign NZ is stuffed!
These three are the new Lord Haw Haw!
Key’s propaganda machinery. and if opposition parties don’t challenge their rights to control a half of our public media of taxpayer TVNZ/Radio NZ, we will see their return to parliament never occur again as we are certainly in line to be completely overwhelmed by these evil paid propagandists.
WAKE UP OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES BEFORE IT IS TO LATE.
Garner is a neoliberal advocate who does at times dress in sheep’s clothing. His rants turn me right off. Last Friday he slammed Auckland Action Against Poverty and their supporting protesters as being nothing but “thugs”!
Now I may not quite agree with AAAP’s approach, but labeling protesters as such, and basically turning a totally blind eye to the Budget and the BS increase of base benefits for parents dependent on WINZ being nothing but a great propaganda stunt, that disqualifies Garner from being a proper journalist.
At times he picks certain popular topics like housing costs and the crisis in Auckland, simply to appeal to listeners and get good ratings, at other times he does criticise the government a bit here and there, but generally, he is rather favourable towards Key and the Nats running the show.
Once good journalists made sure they reported objectively and in a balanced fashion, well at least tried to do this. Such conduct has gone right out the window, and the ones like Garner, more so of course Hosking and Henry, they all love to shout out their personal views, so as to tell people, hey this is what it should be like, join me, think like me.
And all are mercenaries to the advertisers, who put the butter on their bread, and the worst radio station I ever listened to is 1ZB, where nearly half of all broadcast time seems to consist of only commercial ads and promotions of their own station.
Most people are still giving the MSM far too much credit and trust the “news” they report, and that is where one of the many problems lies.
The 25 dollars the parents on benefits will get (per household, not per kid they raise) will lead to clawbacks of other benefit components that most beneficiaries also need, like temporary additional support and the accommodation supplement. Although the threshold or cap for TAS may go up a little, most will hardly get the 25 dollars, but merely a fraction of it, if they may get more after all.
But that is beyond the ones like Garner, Henry and Hosking, as the inner workings and the abatement regime applied by WINZ is a world they are not familiar with, nor interested in. Even many working at WiNZ struggle to comprehend the system they must work under, so how can the public get it, that this is a massive propaganda stunt by the government, by Bill English?
And once the youngest kid is 3, the parents are expected to work at least 20 hours, which in itself lead to more moving off benefits, which is the true agenda they pursue. Even if they may still get some benefit, it will be less than if they only work 15 hours and get a benefit top up on income earned through that.
Nail on the head Mike,
What kind of jobs can Key and English be thinking of where the employer wants them for just 20 hours per week. Maybe the government will go to McDonald’s or Spotlight cleaning and negotiate a deal away from zero hour contracts for beneficiaries, but somehow I don’t think so.
Why doesn’t Duncan Garner act like a proper journalist and ask Key to specify the jobs he has in mind. Why doesn’t he highlight the cost of child minding facilities and how that ties in with the extra 3 dollars 50 a day they will be getting.
Why doesn’t he drill down and ask the hard questions?
Why not? Because he’s LAZY and not really that capable.
I think most New Zealanders realize this and are switching off as they are with the Paul Henry breakfast white elephant which is tanking badly!
initially i read that headline as ‘let them eat crap’ – probably more accurate 🙂
this is typical key, shift around the furniture and rename everything while in effect nothing has changed
How come you guys have never covered the alleged murder/ cover up of Alan Hubbard – to steal his farms? Is it because you are fake cover/ ‘opposition’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9CE1a4pSeQ
Good point Jim,
This video evidence shows who is running the country alright.
Key is a lair, cheat, Carpetbagger, and a Judas backstabber.
And Labour’s response to English’s budget???, the next day Andrew Little proposes yet another means of attacking Superannuation,
i had a conversation with a fellow beneficiary befor the 2014 election, unlike you Chris there was no ‘fine dining’ involved, we were crawling round in the detritus of His driveway changing wheels on a wreck He was hoping to flick off for a bit of coin,
Both of us State House tenants, He having only just moved in having been one of Wellington’s ‘rough sleeping homeless’ was still ‘fine dining’ 6 nights a week at the ‘Soupies’,
As He told me His voting intention for 2014 was to vote National,(i kid you not), of course the conversation here became quite rough,(as there’s no silver-ware to spill crawling round in a State House driveway changing tires on a wreck i can report happily that little damage was done),
Despite my gentle words of persuasion, ”that sh*t your smoking Bro has totally f**cked your head”, He was adamant, in His words, He was going to vote for National so as ”to hold them to account”,
As English at the time was threatening to sell off State Houses to anyone, no mention of ”only to social providers” at that stage, i with all the small amount of cunning left to me pointed this out to Him,
That stopped Him in His tracks, i could see it in His eyes, if brains gave off smoke then His would have needed an emergency call to the fire brigade right then,
However, He was still adamant, He would talk with ‘people’, i assume the nuns at the ‘soup kitchen’ and the support network at the ‘city mission’, but, He was still adamant He would be voting National ”to hold them to account”
He won that wee debate didn’t He Chris, the 8000 State Houses that legislation yesterday allows National to sell might eventually end up in the hands of the Banks, but, National have with cunning inserted a ‘cut-out switch’ in the form of ‘private providers’ into the process,(in other words National won’t be flogging them to the Banks),
English’s budget yesterday means that my neighbour has been justified in voting for National, and, in His mind they have ”been held to account”
The changes to Kiwisaver are meaningless to anyone i know, there is not the money within either the beneficiary or low waged working communities which allow for them to contribute,(Labour’s 2014 policy of compulsory kiwisaver contributions anathema to all of us thus another Vote Loser),
So, the middle class, who en masse have signed up for kiwisaver, having the earnings to sustain a rate of savings, will now be stopped from enrolling their children, ala Mathew Hooten, at birth in the scheme simply to get a 1000 bucks of free money, cry me a river,
When Labour start to propose the scrapping of contractual work arrangements for the low paid working masses, replacing such contracts with an industry award system that gives all of them hours of work and living wages then WE might start listening to Labour,
Otherwise, as you intimate in your Post, Labour will be fighting future elections via a couple of percent of the monied middle class…
I actually wholeheartedly agree with the union award rate system . Not only would that promote social equity – it would also promote social cohesiveness , which ….is the very antithesis of neo liberal ideology.
Neo liberalism thrives on a divided populace.
It is a core plank in enabling it to work.
With a unionized workforce…we would find these ideologues finding a very hard time in saddling us with many of these antisocial and anti sovereign policies.
With a unionized workforce…we would find THAT would be the start of a slow but sure resumption of balancing the scales – economically and politically.
Yes we had an award system under National in 1960’s as an electrician or carpenter or whatever.
It worked so well and we never had this distorted workplace salary system where everyone is treated separately for whatever?
This as a divisive system of pitching one employee against another, and very sad place to work under the stress now.
Oh i think it has gone far past a situation of trying to resurrect any form of compulsory unionism Wild Katipo,
My preference in the current climate would be for Legislation to enact awards across industry groups,
A tripartite of negotiators consisting of the Council of Trade Unions, the employers group from the particular industrial sector, and, a team of negotiators formed with membership from each party making up the next left leaning coalition Government would be my preference…
Kia ora Chris, thanks for pointing out that Labour did beneficiaries no favours last time they were in power. For those on comfortable middle class incomes, $25 is a cheap bottle of wine, or coffee and cake for two. For those trying to survive on a benefit, it won’t even cover the cost of one trip to the doctor (In most parts of the country anyway, last time I visited Te Tai Tokerau I noticed the people there were fortunate to have generously subsidized primary health care).
The real solution to keeping all kiwis out of poverty – both those in paid work and those who do unpaid work like parenting – in a world of increasingly precarious employment and technological change is a Universal Basic Income. Any coalition of parties brave enough to put forward such a policy would get my vote.
Indeed….that AND a return in legislation ( by scrapping the Employment Relations Act ) to a properly unionized workforce which has the political will and muscle to back up a proper award rate.
And in doing so would give political muscle to such things as the Universal Basic Income.
This is the sort of thing this country was based on originally. A fair days pay for a fair days work.
Post 1984?…
We succumbed to the neo liberal globalists.
And we entered the age of the treasonous oligarchs.
Hey Danyl,
I like this ‘Universal Basic Income’ idea!
Because as soon as it comes into effect I’m quitting my job that brings in so much foreign revenue into NZ and I pay so much tax on. And I suspect a lot of other people like me would be too….
….then we’ll all sit on our arses instead, and YOU can do the heavy lifting.
Deal?
Andrew, you can pretty much test just how well you would appreciate a life living off of the Universal Basic Income now,
Just quit your job,(my i nearly swooned at your self descriptive, such a heroic worker you are, savior of the nation), and, sign on for the unemployment benefit,
The UBI for your info Andrew is not a proposal for a free ride for all, the UBI is simply a proposal that all monetary benefits provided by the State accrued by any individual in society are pooled and divided among all individual members of that society,
All individuals in that society would then be free to work or not work either to their ability or as they saw fit,
Of course taxation would still be levied by Government as it is done now,
For example both you and i would receive the same UBI of say $15,000 annually if either of us chose to gain employment we would still keep the total of the UBI payment plus our wages less taxation,
For myself there are far too many questions as yet unanswered for me to offer anything but lukewarm support to such an idea…
I notice too that the increase is only for children. Plenty of unemployed folk don’t have them, and their circumstances are also miserable. If English had delivered any of the growth or jobs he bleated about it might not be so bad – but NZ, as is usual under National, is back in the long recession. With the exception of the Auckland property market which is driven by other, better performing economies.
Well…so far we have got a bicycle path from Key.
Was that a nod to Keynesian economics and a responsible govt?
NAH…………..
It was a placation move early on to enhance the tourist industry and his mates overseas.
And also…neo liberal economics NEEDS a large pool of unemployed to drive those nasty wages down. Throw in a large dollop of immigrants and its the neo liberal paradise.
Jobs? Growth ?
Of course not !!!
And let me remind you of the statement from the Double Dipper from Dipton …
”We should be glad we have a LOW WAGE ECONOMY as that encourages foreign investment ”….
Does that answer your question?
If National did not lift the benefit that pathetic amount then how will the landlords be paid their rent?
How can they increase rents in the increasingly debt fuelled pursuit of a quick buck if incomes don’t rise to meet that demand? Something has to give especially in Auckland and Christchurch and you can’t get blood from a stone! Capital gains are one thing but under the new brave world of the “what the hell does that bankers phrase mean- Bright line” or two year time limit to not be presumed a speculator, being left holding such debt can get pretty hairy.
And I don’t subscribe to thinking or propaganda our economy is a star. We are borrowing horrific amounts of money and the one consistent thing Bill English the economic genius does so well is sell anything and everything. This budget simply confirmed the next round of asset sales, namely any government land in Auckland and I guess with the perfect disguise of it being intended to cool the housing market a bit the income from it will plug a few more holes in the dike.
English should thank the political gods that there wasn’t more Bill English’s around in the last century otherwise he’d have nothing at all to run this economy with!
Actually Elle, I gave up on MSM (just learnt what that abreviation stands for!) some 20 years ago. What has helped considerably in later years in staying informed, has been the dear old interweb. Needless to say such a dangerous infrastructure cannot be allowed to continue without government control and most (if not all) governments exercise control over their citizens’ access to the world wide blog. And I’m not just talking China. If you think you’ve got free and unobserved access here in NZ just try entering ‘joining IS’ or ‘looking for paedophilia’ in your search engines. EVERYTHING you do is noted; finances, blogs, political activities, online shopping, everything.
But I digress…
Mr Trottoir, you have again dug up important material from that TARDIS you call a memory. Well done.
I too remember (yes I’m also an elderly dinosaur (elderer than you actually)) that Muldoon budget as well as the nine unrelenting years of middle class liberalism for which I was expected to feel eternally grateful. Years of working in the trade union taught me about ‘Labour’ governments as well as the more traditional ratbags in National.
Whatever Labour chooses to do in the face of this budget is totally irrelevant to the working poor, unemployed, medically unfit, young and elderly. If you don’t like what the current government is doing there’s little to be achieved by voting in the National Party B team (Labour).
But I agree with your comments on the tricksiness of old Bill’s budget. Your Remuera middle ground may buy the conscience salving spin in this budget but the majority of us dealing with the nasty side effects of 16 years of liberalism know that nothing has gone anywhere. Sleight of hand, prestidigitation or smoke and mirrors; it amounts to robbing some beneficiaries to pay others or as my old mum used to say “robbing Peter to pay Paul”.
Sadly, the Peters in this case are the adults of tomorrow, our present children.
And finally Mr Trottoir (phew!) I have no dificulty in imagining the conversation you recounted. I witnessed many times the joyous glee with which average Kiwis embrace liberalism. Attracted, no doubt, by the punitive nature of its philosophy. I’m afraid you Kiwis still love to blame and gloat.
New Zealand remains an old fashioned cargo cult or colonial economy. Farming, fishing and tourism pays for the employment of 80% of New Zealanders who essentially exist in artificial economy were the skill and discipline required by work in the world outside is slipshod. Increasingly the real work in farming, fishing and NZ tourism is done by short term visitors, tourists and foreigners. Almost certainly NZ suffers from substantial overemployment with work and the requirement to work extending in to those so inefficient and ugly that any multiplier dosen’t apply and the efficient workers are put off and leave the country or opt out. NZ is seen by academics as a haven for those too stupid or old to be attractive employees by Australia, gays and simpletons. It may simply be cruel to everyone rather than kind to aim for universal employment or 98% pass rates at level 2 NCEA, which essentially means any idiot get the equivalent of the old UE however lazy or stupid.
Bill English is a proud sad tragedy. He’s a Catholic, Puritan, Conservative who being a privileged star little school scholarship winner feels massive guilt and either runs in fear of the proles or feels an unjustfied sympathy for them, never having to live at the same ugly, stupid, prejudiced level as them.
Strangely the Government seems to favour the relationship with the Chinese rather than the more demanding US who like skill and spark. When the left talk about skill and spark they mean the opposite. So the issues are how long will the Govt be able to keep the international balancing act up, disguise the increasing dumbness of Aotearoa and how long will the Chinese and Indians be prepared to pay high prices for milk powder
High Tory, the fact that you appear not to have decamped for Australia begs the question of where in the picture you have painted of us Kiwi’s do you put yourself,
Could you have produced with your words a self portrait…
Now here’s an interesting few thoughts from a chap who left the First Satanic Church of Anton Le Vey – after having been groomed to rapidly rise up through the ranks…
He stated in Satanic Occultism , …there are 4 tenets essentially. Here they are.
1) Self preservation. At all costs. Their highest goal. And if you have to be ruthless it doesn’t matter.
2) Moral relativism. There are NO objective standards of moral behavior. Justify’s any method , even if it goes against the conscience.There are no standards. Practices moral relativity rather than moral objectivity. No inner or external code of behavior.
3) Social Darwinism . Predetermined ‘ right to rule ‘ over everybody. Their predestined ‘ genes ‘ got them there,…it was predestined.
4) Eugenics. Basically , the right to decide who lives , – and who dies.
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Well…..I don’t know about you folk,… but this seems an awful lot like much of the geopolitical thinking permeating the neo liberal movement , doesn’t it.
Interesting that Hitler kept a copy of Madame Blavatsky at his bedside and practiced the same – along with Teutonic Aryanism , as well as being a member of the Thule Society.
Interesting also that this ex Satanic member said that they had regular members from all walks – govt officials, military chiefs, academia , media , advertising , finance and the entertainment industry.
So…we have a PM who , as a young man , spent a lot of time in the USA,..a rising star who was noticed in high finance circles – in the Forex market , no less.
He was then groomed and seen by the big business people in this country as the successor to Don Brash ,…to give a ‘softer’ edge to the neo liberal program.
A perfect solution to act as the soft front for certain individuals in the USA who have a globalist program. We have seen this demonstrated amply by the deviousness with which the SIS and GSCB have been used. The TTPA signing.
NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM.
‘ NEW’ ‘SECULAR ‘ ORDER’.
NEW WORLD ORDER.
ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT.
And in New Zealand?…ever since the neo liberal subversion under Roger Douglas 35 years ago..the deconstruction and progressive borderlessness economically of our country.
A huge rise in the long term unemployed ,the destruction of a unionized workforce coupled with ever punitive social services and benefits. A decimating of the rural population and economy.
( See : UN Agenda 21 for more details please.)
And so…under this neo liberal political environment, we have a mere tinkering with any social welfare measures – not for true societal welfare….but as a placation of the voting populace.
That is what all this is about.
Placation.
It is quite obvious.
From a once wealthy country we have these appallingly vicious measures being doled out , – inflicted on us – in the confident hope the sheep will comply. And stay silent.
And to a large extant , we will.
Sadly.
To our detriment.
But it would behoove ANY discussion on the merits of the true intent of Bill English to always remember that statement he made , in order to understand this mans true motives….
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”We should be glad we have a LOW WAGE ECONOMY because that encourages foreign investment ”.
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And there we have it , – concise , and succinct.
In full public view and totally irrefutable .
Is it any wonder he put together such a miserly repressive budget for the citizens of this country to have to bear?
Of course not. And you might also remember that he was also dubbed ‘The Double Dipper from Dipton ‘ for no small reason.
Neo liberalism.
The most ugly , subversive , and globalistic totalitarian tool of oppression of our time.
WILD KATIPO This looks like Key’s NatZ doctrine eh?
“Satanic Occultism” , …there are 4 tenets essentially.
Self preservaation, (greed,)
no morals, (no standards)
Authoritarianism (right to rule)
Euthenics (decide who lives & dies)
english really meant to say “let them eat crap”
A few points / notes to Chris’s article;
NZ’s oft trumpeted GDP growth is not the “good” which it appears at face value. Contrary to the rhetoric Key, English and their coterie of economic incompetents inherited a fundamentally strong economy. This was on the verge of coming out of a mild recession (5 quarter of decline) which it did by the March 2009 quarter – this is attested to by the GDP figures which also debunk the supposed headwinds from the GFC that were minimal in NZ’s case. NZhad a robust national Balance Sheet and then driven by a 5 year run of record terms of trade and the boost from the Christchurch rebuild continued on a growth path. Further stimulus was given to the Gross figures by an indiscriminate growth in net migration. Yet examination shows that most of this was either cyclical (as agriculture normally is), at the cost of the countries infrastructure, a serious degradation of the environment a run away asset bubble, sell off of state assets and mounting debt.
Cullen’s comment that this is not a neoliberal government can be taken with a grain of salt as Cullen is a “new labour” man and himself a neoliberal in sheep’s clothing. sadly my impression that this is still the state of the labour party parliamentary wing which is why they will struggle to unseat Key unless there is a major melt down – why a pale reflection?
I note that the comment from Chris’s dinning companion is typical of the rationale that the moderate neoliberals use to support there place at the trough – yet another candidate for social provider my god who would wnt to be beholden to types such as that.
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