Righto, got a Fox news subscription & settling in…

The new party/ politician will be someone who is able to articulate ideas that challenge the tired old crap that underpins the ridiculously similar socialist electoral platforms of National and Labour. People will eventually get tired of the same old same old, politicians who promise to bring something different, and then don’t deliver. They won’t put up with theft of their earnings, rising crime and violence, collapsing government services and other forms of social diseintergration for ever. That means they’ll eventually wisen up to the fact that voting National or Labour is not going to bring them the relief they crave. That’s when they’ll start looking for a new direction. All that has to happen is for someone to step into the void. Someone able to articulate the kind of ideas that the tired and limited egos currently driving Labour/ National find impossible to confront. It’ll happen in the US before it happens here. Watch there for clues.

In the end, voters will demand a politician capable of providing real solutions.

I’ll bite – who will this politician be? From whence shall the saviour spring?

I have only just stopped lasting toms. Being family friendly is not the same as being friendly to people who drop sprogs round the country and expect the taxpayer to pick up the tab.

Is that the same “family friendly” government who pays welfare beneficiaries higher than hard working people can earn? Is that the same “family friendly” government that lets its A+ students take out a $50K loan to go to university when solo parents who did not pass high school get to go for free – YOU BET – thats the state of “family friendliness in the Feminazi Repulic of Aotearoa!

Toms, one day you might get a real life and understand what we mean!

However there is no guarantee that your MP will ever see your letter. It has to get past the “minder” first.

Morris’s experience confirms the culture in the Halls of Power.

I resent the fact that I had to work two jobs to support my family while my wife was off work to raise our shildren, now when they are teenagers and my wife and I both work will I have to work two jobs again to cover the mortgage, the education costs, and the addtional tax we will have to pay for these stupid schemes! I’ll accept 14 weeks, but that’s where I draw the line!

National have moved so far left they have left me no reason to be excited about them. No reason to wish them well. No reason to vote for them.

National are yet another centre party with no natural constituency and a flippy floppy Dick Hubbard (sorry non-Aucklanders) leadership style.

Why do they bother?

It is absolute lunacy to continue down this road of state responsibility. It is simply unsustainable.

And the people who push these policies generally have NO IDEA of how money is created to fund these things. They have NO IDEA of the basics of the human character. They tend to base all their ideas and opinions on what someone else should need. It tends to never be required in their own lives. Just someone elses – someone who they dont even know – someone they see on the tele.

All this talk of the family. It gives me the shits – because that is precisely where the responsibility should lie! Leave them to work it out – it worked that way in the past.

Hasnt anyone noticed that the greater the govt involvement in anything the bigger the mess. Single parentage, health, education, general welfare, etc. Shoot the responsibility back to the family – not over to some unaccountable govt.

Imagine for an instance if the govt decided that the supply of food, for example, was too important to be left up to private entreprise and poor old families all on their own – any guesses on what the price of bread would be?

Govt interference on this scale simply does not suit the human character

Re who pays the state when everyone is on the govt tit – your answer avoids the question. Expected. How likely is that you ask – well of course it is unlikely but that is where it is heading.

But in order to get a sensible appreciation of this ‘ever-expanding state assistance’ issue you should answer that question – who pays the state when the entire population is reliant on state assistance?

However unlikely that is please try to answer it – it is hypothetical of course but it points to the answer for this whole issue. Go on, just for me. This is supposed to be a debating bloggy thing after all.

1. Who pays the state when the entire population is eventually reliant on state assistance?

And how likely is that?

Not very I’m sure you will agree.

I felt compelled to write to you on the discriminatory proposal to extend parental leave for a year. As someone who has elected not to have children, why am I expected as a taxpayer to pay for someone elses? This is totally unacceptable and discriminates against me. It should be a choice to have children or not and those that decide to should bear the consequences.

Time after time again I am forced to fork out for long term muti-generational welfare beneficiaries to breed, having 6, 7, 8 children, who then are neglected or abused and then I have to pay again for their hospitalisation, legal fees for the low lives alleged to have been the abusers, and if convicted then prison.

I resent paying for the level of legal representation of previous convicted offenders – why should they get better counsel than I would have to pay for?

Enough is enough I am a hard working small business struggling to keep above water. Bringing in this ridiculous length of leave is unworkable for small businesses such as mine and the costs of compliance will put a good few out of business. I have to wonder if New Zealand wants a sucessful country or are we to have as our future a welfare dependent non accountable society? This would certainly not be a country worth remaining in with escalating violence of uneducated gangs.

Where are the incentives to reward people for their efforts? I would rather see people rewarded in hard-working families. In my view the burden of government tax and spending means that too little middle-income New Zealanders can afford children without making sacrifices. A solution is to grow the economy, constrain government spending, and allow New Zealanders to retain their own personal responsibility to make their own decisions without expecting the taxpayer yet again pay out for something which has nothing to do with them and which they do not benefit from in any way. I would be interested to see a poll on whether families would support this parental leave with a tax break or exclusion for those that have elected not to have children.

1. How do you earn your keep? i.e. who gives you your money

2. Who pays the state when the entire population is eventually reliant on state assistance?

or ignore them if you want … that will be answer enough

August 29th, 2007 at 11:13 am
What makes you think that comment was aimed at you Sonic?? Feeling guilty are we?”

Is that not a denial Granty?

He’ll be a public servant. Ten to one. He’s on our time.