Do we want to go back to what was “normal” – or do we want to take this unexpected downtime to rethink our economy so we emerge from this terrible moment determined to create a fairer New Zealand for our children and grandchildren?
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determined to create a fairer New Zealand for our children and grandchildren?
I don’t think that ‘fairer’ is a word with any effect in NZ any more. What would be a word with enough point to pierce the self-indulgent blanket we wrap around ourselves in NZ?
‘To create a …………… ? New Zealand’ for all, as well as our own children and family.
I think a return to the word ‘egalitarian’ and adding equitable, rather than the use of equality, would be right – so a return to an ‘egalitarian and equitable NZ for our young people to hold and carry forward.
Just wanting a better NZ for our children and grand-children emphasises the idea of individualism in politics which detracts from the idea of being all together, of being part of a fabulous whole, and wishing the country as a whole to be happy and healthy and hard-working at something they enjoy and that others want, and that for a reasonable wage and price.
Do we want to go back to what was “normal” – NO NO NO, NO MORE PEOPLE SLEEPING IN CARS AND ECKING OUT A LIVING, NO MORE CHILDREN IN POVERTY.
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do we want to take this unexpected downtime to rethink our economy so we emerge from this terrible moment determined to create a fairer New Zealand for our children and grandchildreN
YES YES YES we can do this, the people have to demand it, not more politicians saying it can’t be done, we need to change things NOW.
Astonishing how we can home the homeless in these times but not all the time… what is that about, our fear that ‘they’ might give us something.
Brilliant @BB
I wrote a long ranty, ravie, many fuck worded piece for your Post @ BB but then I thought…
” Hey? Wait a minute? I’m repeating myself at the very least.”
Instead of constantly re describing the bristles on little rogers moustache… ? How about we ‘take action’ instead to give it a close shave?
How about we organise a system where by we can recognise who ‘we’ are?
Then, we can plot a course to get our stuff and things back and imprison those who fucked us without the kissing. How about that?
We really need to know who we really are…!
After all, who are we? ( The Who. ” Who are you?”) because I think we really need to know.
Ask yourself now there would ya?
Free electricity, free health all the way to your later rather than earlier grave, free university education, free housing for those victims of the rogernome-virus, a Ministry of Retail Banking, i.e. A democratically socialist retail bank by us and for us and drive the foreign criminal scum off AO/NZ’s shores, the abolition of all food regulations with regard to farmers markets thereby purging us of the two supermarket cartels who dictate their terms to us, free public transport and an upgrade to public rail transport I.e. reinstate the one we had and lastly but certainly by no means least… unleash the might of our agrarian infrastructure. You know the one right? The one that built our country, earns our foreign exchange and feeds and clothes us daily. That one.
The above are examples of what can be easily achieved within the time frame of one election cycle so why hasn’t that happened?
Who’s stopping that happening? Where are they? Can we go and find them for a friendly wee chat?
Or? Or would you prefer multi billionaires who ripped us off, scam us daily, pay no taxes and live off-shore while calling themselves Kiwis?
On that note? Where’s SIR ron brierly? How’s he getting on? With all that kiddy porn on his lap top. 500 videos of kids being sexually abused?
Which scenario would you prefer? Take your time? Though shit’s getting super urgent. But take your time, yet for Christ’s sake hurry up ! ! ! ! !
That women living with her kids in water logged tents, one of whom suffers from epilepsy, needs a decision from us, the fit and able bodied. And quickly!
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