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Last week Cardinal George Pell of Australia was sent to prison for child abuse .The American people, having elected a compulsive liar to be their President, are daily watching a real life West Wing show in which corruption piles upon corruption in a White House now covered with the dark slime of greed.
“Hey Mike! Why did you not introduce capital gains tax when you were finance minister?’
Seriously.
What the fuck is wrong with NZME and it’s Executive that it continues to give a platform to this racist shit?
It was bad enough when Barry’s wife said Pacific Islanders are leeches and then doubled down on that racism.
In the panel on a knowledge at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand Melanie Webber looked at challenges confronting internationalised education.
Today you can hear the greedy swearing how Landlords could always punish the tenants and greedily recoup the costs of even the most basic health improvements to their revenue producing assets – like putting in a heater or underfloor insulation.
Today’s generation of young adults are the first generation in recent history who will be substantially worse off than their parents .
On the panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand, Aroha Mead, from Ngāti Awa and Ngāti Porou, reminded us what it means to live in Aotearoa.
If we care about poverty, the best a Capital Gains Tax does is raise a bit of revenue for the government to spend. We have to hope like hell that money gets spent on the real problems facing the country like child poverty, rather than middle class welfare like free tertiary education.
Baby Boomers were lucky enough to live under Governments who rebuilt their societies post World War Two with the lesson of what happened if citizens weren’t protected from the sharp boom and busts of capitalism foremost in their minds. Those Governments inoculated their citizens from Fascism and Communism with a Democratic Welfare State and investment into their hopes and aspirations.
Labelling people socialists and communists is rife while the government starts to make the big changes that selfish, privileged nation wreckers are damned they will see happen, as long as they can enjoy the inequity of their ill gotten gains at the expense of all our great grandchildren and a more egalitarian future.