Kerre’s conversion is complete
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm by David FarrarI think we can declare Kerre Woodham’s conversion to the dark side complete. She has shown primising signs before of having abandoned latte liberal or Chardonnay socialist leanings, but her latest column qualifies her for full entry. I will arrange the initiation ceremony the next time the High Council meets.
Can anybody explain why we need these redundancy packages? Will we always have them? Or do we only get redundancy packages when recessions fall in election years?
Kerre has it in one.
One man told me it was all the banks’ fault for luring people into mortgages, so the Government should pay if people couldn’t afford to pay the bills when times got tough.
For a start, no bank staff pointed guns at homeowners and insisted they take out mortgages. People did that of their own volition.
And if you’d listened to your grandparents, they would have told you not to borrow more than you could afford to pay back.
All good points.
And for another, it’s not “the Government” that will be giving you money. It’s me. And your friends and neighbours.
The Government is not a money machine. It’s an institution that is funded by taxes taken from all of us.
And the final proof of the conversion to the dark side – the realisation that the money the Governments gives out is not their money, but your money.
Where does personal responsibility come into it? I’ve earned low wages and I’ve earned high, and I’ve learned you cut your cloth according to your income.
Heresy, heresy to the left.
One of the reasons for this worldwide recession is that people have taken on more debt than they could afford to give themselves a better lifestyle.
What the recession is doing is shaking everything and everyone up, and restoring a natural order and balance. But that won’t happen if political parties set about subverting the sequence.
This column really gets a 10/10. Not only emphasises taxpayers, and individual responsibility but also talks about long-term effects of short-term interventions. Has Kerre been doing an economics degree on the sly?
Labour’s package is particularly loopy. If a person is made redundant, they will get the equivalent of the unemployment benefit for up to 13 weeks even if their spouse or spouse equivalent is on $200,000 a year.
How does that make sense?
It is about as sensible as giving welfare through Working for Families to couples earning $120,000.
National’s is targeted at lower income earners and builds on the Working for Families scheme and is marginally more practical _ if you agree that these redundancy packages are necessary. And I don’t.
I have no problem with taxes going to people who need a bit of extra help. Who are working low-wage jobs and looking after their families and who don’t have a lot to come and go on.
But we have programmes targeting those people already. I see absolutely no point in flinging money at people who have made poor economic choices or who don’t really need it. But then I’m not a politician looking to get elected.
Kerre’s membership will be approved by acclamation I predict. You have done well young Padawan.
Related posts:
- National’s Transitional Relief Package
- Income Gaps
- The transitional relief package
- Ministerial spouses paying their own way
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
As her personal economic situation has improved so has her ability to form and communicate common sense.
Vote:Not really a surprise, it is a transformation most of us go through as we grow up.
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Shawn Tan….now Kerre……the “secret ….”turn em right” agenda is bearing fruit…..hiss drool!
Thats how the VRWC rolls….yeh boy!
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I wonder how these packages can help the self employed who are the first to feel the effects of outrageous fortune.
Builders and tradespeople of all kinds are being laid off all around my District.
Some are beginning to realise that we could have been looking forward to a six hundred home “new town” planned to be built by the local iwi at Te Arai beach.
They now own the land have the finance. But over 2000 NIMBY and BANANA objectors waided in to the fray and the iwi have retreated to lick their wounds.
This must be happening all around the country as families realise that by objecting to every proposal in their neighbourhood they have been cutting off their nose to spite their face. I just hope that the feeling that the Government will bail them out of their redundancy or total absence of contracts persuades them they do not need to change their ways.
The Green parties around the world are seizing this opportunity to say that growth and employment is not the answer – and that we should learn to live with less and stop raping the Earth Mother – who has just sent an early warning sign that she is pissed off.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Stop press! Middle class air head makes middle aged conversion to selfish conservatism. Maybe she want to shag Bill Ralston, who knows.
[DPF: You mean she hasn't already? How careless of her.]
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
And the final proof of the conversion to the dark side – the realisation that the money the Governments gives out is not their money, but your money.
If only we had some kind of representative parliamentary system that gave us all a say in that government, making it “our government”, putting those taxes under “our control”.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 1:43 pm
“selfish ” says toms , how many houses the PM got again mate?
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hardly selfish toms – just pointing out facts.
There is no need for this particular rexcue package, whether National’s or Labour’s version of it – it’s just bare electoral bribery on both sides.
And she’s right – banks don’t force people to take out loans they can’t afford – people decide to do it themselves. No reason to rescue them with my tax dollars, which I’d rather see in Health, Aged care or youth care – I think you should be able to look after yourself the rest of your life.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
this is how it really works,we have all been fed bullshit,NZ is run by the same system
Federal Reserve At War With America
Mike Adams | Natural News
10th of October 2008
http://www.wariscrime.com/2008/10/10/news/federal-reserve-at-war-with-america/
In 1942, German intelligence officers rounded up skilled Jewish prisoners and launched Operation Bernhardt, a clever scheme designed to counterfeit hundreds of millions of dollars worth of British Pounds and destroy the British economy by flooding it with counterfeit money. Located in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, Operation Bernhardt was, even by modern standards, a runaway success that resulted in the creation of forged bank notes worth 132 million British Pounds.
This “economic warfare” operation resulted in a devastating economic effect on the British economy.
It is important to note that Operation Bernhardt was an act of war, specifically pursued for the purpose of destroying Britain’s economy by creating so much new money that the value of the money already in circulation would plummet. This was considered a strategic attack, just as effective as carpet-bombing tank factories or mowing down soldiers on the field with German-made MG42 machine guns.
What does all this have to do with the Federal Reserve?
Today, the Federal Reserve is engaged in an eerily similar operation, counterfeiting trillions of dollars in U.S. bank notes and flooding the U.S. money supply with money created from nothing. The result, of course, is the same as was intended by Operation Bernhardt in 1942: The economic destruction of the target nation. Only this time, the target is the United States of America.
Hilariously, the Fed claims it’s doing this to save the economy. Yet the laws of economics tell us that flooding the money supply with trillions of dollars in new money actually harms the economy. And the Fed has been hard at work causing this harm: $250+ billion two weeks ago, $600+ billion last week and $900 billion earlier this week! It’s beginning to crank up the printing presses to the tune of a trillion dollars a week, and by doing so, it’s contributing to the destruction of the U.S. economy at a pace the Third Reich could have barely imagined.
Has the Fed declared war on the working class?
If the actions pursued by the Federal Reserve were being masterminded by Al-Qaeda, they would be denounced as acts of war. In World War II, such actions were deliberate acts of war. Targeting the economy for destruction by flooding the money supply with counterfeit currency is, by any measure, a threat to any nation.
So why is the Federal Reserve engaged in actions that, if committed by other nations, would warrant a military response? This is not an idle question. I’m not asking this in a satirical way. I’m quite serious about this: Why is the Fed committing acts of economic warfare against the United States of America? (The Fed, by the way, is a private company. It is not, as you’ve been led to believe, part of the U.S. government.)
The answer is obvious. You’ve probably already figured it out: The Federal Reserve is at war with America. It’s an economic war, of course, not a bombs-and-bullets war. The casualties, though, are just as real: Savings accounts, retirement funds, bank accounts, jobs, businesses, pensions and much more.
By counterfeiting trillions of dollars like a Sachsenhausen operation on steroids, the Fed is carpet-bombing the U.S. economy with an unprecedented flood of fiat currency, causing the exact same economic destruction intended by the Nazis in World War II (but on a much more devastating scale). And it’s doing this as part of a new economic war.
Class warfare has begun
What war? The war between the wealthy elite and the working class. The Fed is working hard, of course, to protect the wealthy elite. Over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money has already been earmarked to bail out the rich, elite bankers who lost other people’s money in a series of idiotic bets on fictitious financial instruments.
And what are these bankers doing with this taxpayer money? According to an Associated Press report published yesterday, executives of the failed insurance company AIG were sent on a $440,000 retreat “to a posh California resort” less than one week after the U.S. government bailed them out. At the spa, AIG executives enjoyed spa treatments, massages, organic food buffets and bodywork therapy, all while the American taxpayers footing the bill were slaving away in real jobs, doing real work. Want to see the invoice for yourself? View it here.
That’s how this new class warfare is taking shape: YOU (the working class) get all the debt, all the losses, and all the financial burden. THEY (the wealthy elite) get all the profits, all the luxury spa treatments, all the tax breaks and billions of dollars in free money from the Federal Reserve.
In the 1942 Operation Bernhardt, the Germans literally planned to load hundreds of millions of dollars in British Pound bank notes and air-drop them over London. The resulting chaos, it was believed, would shut down the British economy, halting the flow of money needed by Britain to fund its war effort. In the United States today, the Fed is taking a different approach: Air-dropping trillions of dollars into the laps and bank accounts of wealthy bankers and financial institution CEOs, concentrating the massive creation of fiat currency into the hands of less than 1% of the population.
And just to make sure the economic carpet-bombing is a complete success, the Federal Reserve and U.S. government are conspiring to create more than a trillion dollars in new money each week, then flood those funds into banks, businesses and insurance companies. This will, of course, devastate the value of the dollars being saved, held or earned by the wage slaves who labor their lives away under this economic regime. (That would be you and me.)
It’s a brilliant plan… if you’re interested in destroying a nation. This kind of attack would bring almost any nation to its knees. It’s an act of war that requires no violence, no bombs and no destruction of real infrastructure. And yet it achieves what every war in history has ever sought to achieve: The transfer of power from the hands of the many to the hands of the few.
The Federal Reserve, in effect, has become a modern-day economic Third Reich, and it has set its sights on the U.S. economy.
Acts of economic terrorism?
The Federal Reserve is now doing to the U.S. what the terrorists could never have accomplished: The destruction of a large portion of its economy, its currency and the savings of its people.
The economic losses of 9/11 pale in comparison to the financial destruction that has been unleashed onto America by the Federal Reserve.
Yet, amazingly, it wasn’t “terrorists” who put this plan into place. Who was it, exactly? Your Congressional representatives played an important role in allowing this to happen. In a grand, historical betrayal of the American people, members of your own U.S. House of Representatives and Senate voted to initiate a massive economic coup in America, violating the wishes of 99% of the American people (who are aligned against bailing out the rich on the backs of the poor).
Of course, to hear them explain it, their actions are meant to save the taxpayers. Yep, that’s their plan: To save YOU, the taxpayer, by confiscating your money and handing it over to the wealthy elite. And whatever money can’t be stolen from the taxpayers will be counterfeited by the Fed’s money-creation machine.
The Real Agenda: A Massive Transfer of Wealth
We are not watching an economic rescue, friends. We are watching an economic coup. Creating and dumping trillions of dollars into the money supply is an act of war. But it’s a war with a specific purpose.
What’s happening right now is that the United States is being taken over by King Henry and his accomplices. More than fifty percent of the housing and nearly twenty percent of the entire U.S. economy is now controlled by one person — Henry Paulson — and that person answers to no one. He isn’t elected, he can’t be removed from office, and he’s subject to no law.
King Henry controls unlimited funds. He can print any amount of money, or confiscate any amount from the taxpayers (by spending taxpayer dollars to bail out his rich friends). If the Federal Reserve is the new Third Reich, King Henry is its Hitler.
The economic war has already been lost by the People. It was lost on September 30, 2008, when Congress surrendered the U.S. economy to King Henry. The People now own nothing but paper money and ephemeral digital account numbers, all of which could be turned into worthless digits overnight by a single decision from King Henry.
In this economic bailout and the Fed’s unlimited creation of new money, America has suffered the greatest act of economic warfare in our nation’s history. Note carefully that it wasn’t conducted by the Nazis, Saddam Hussein or Al Qaeda. It was, in fact, put into place by 172 Democrats and 91 Republicans in the House, and a similar majority in the U.S. Senate.
So what can YOU do right now?
A system of exchange is not dependent on the dollar alone. Commerce will survive the collapse of one currency. Trade will go on after this economic chaos passes, and businesses will continue to be an important part of our economic future.
People will still need food, clothing, nutritional supplements, fuel, services, computers, tutoring, services, pet products, children’s products, cars, MP3 players and much more. The end of the U.S. dollar is NOT the end of the world. It is simply the end of one empire…
In my view, the best way to financial survive this economic warfare being conducted by the Federal Reserve against the People is to create your own economic abundance by owning (or launching) your own independent income sources.
In fact, I’ve written an entire report on how to accomplish this. It’s called How to Build Your Financial Safety Net. Due to this economic crisis, I’ve decided to release it at no charge, and it’s available right now here.
Read it if you want to be empowered, informed and insulated from the demise of the dollar. Using the strategies you’ll find in that report, you can drastically limit your losses in this economic carpet-bombing of the U.S. economy. In fact, I believe you can emerge with greater wealth than you had when it all started.
You probably won’t be getting paid in dollars, however. Expect a new currency to be the future system of exchange in America. But building reliable income streams now is a smart way to survive the coming economic implosion that will put corporations, governments and non-profits out of business. (If you work for a paycheck, your paycheck may be in danger right now.)
What’s Really Radical
By the way, do you think this article is radical? Some people have told me that my reporting on the economic situation is “radical.” You know what I told them?
I said imagine two households. One household balances its budget, spends only what it brings home in income and has no debt. The other household spends twice as much as it earns. It owes $50,000 on credit cards and borrows money from loan sharks to meet the minimum payments on its credit cards.
Which household is “radical?”
Now consider this: The second household sneaks into the first household and steals money to pay its own debts. On top of that, it has a counterfeit cash printing machine in the basement, and it’s cranking out thousands of dollars a week just to attempt to pay off its credit cards. It’s immune to the law because it buys off the local police for criminal immunity.
Which household is headed towards financial disaster? Which household has a real future, and which one doesn’t?
That second house, of course, is the United States government. My reporting on the U.S. financial situation is downright tame compared to what’s really going on behind the scenes. I can’t get radical enough to accurately describe the degree of deception and outright theft that’s taking place in Washington right now.
History will show that not only were my warnings accurate, they were understated by a wide margin. Reporting the truth is a delicate thing. People can only stomach so much truth at any one time. Few people can handle the whole truth, which is why I usually refrain from reporting it. There are things stated in this article that only hint at much bigger stories that will someday be told by others.
Only the most open-minded, skeptical thinkers can even mentally consider the real truth of what’s happening in our world today. Most people have been brainwashed into living in a fictional world, and they are unable to even consider truths that threaten their grip on reality.
As a result, the public has to be led by the hand from one realization to the next, little by little, until they attain the ability to see the world as it really is rather than the illusion that has been constructed for them by the very people running this financial scam.
Video: How Money Creation Actually Works
Check out this video to see how the Fed (and the fractional-reserve banking system) creates money out of nothing
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
“Has Kerre been doing an economics degree on the sly?”
Nah – if she’d been doing that, she’d have mentioned the macro-economic conditions that made the credit crisis possible. If the game everyone’s playing is building a collective house of cards, it has to come down some time, no matter how much “individual responsibility” everyone takes.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Those “macro-economic” conditions being fractional banking, fiat currency, classical economics (BOTH Left and Right), government regulations, and politically correct but lunatic legislation and policy mandated by left wing parties that created easy credit for the “poor” (those with bad credit).
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Does this mean there’s hope for Wendell Nissan?
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Poor toms, looks like another lefty has fallen off the wagon. In true lefty fashion toms attacks the messenger but fails to hear the message, I guess he still has some growing to do.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 4:12 pm
i cant imagine wendell is on huge money. so no hope.
i never listen to kerre cause she was always so left… i guess 7 or 8 years on 100k + has converted her. funny that.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
I had a chat with Kerre on talk back a while ago. She confessed to her previous left-wing preferences. However, she was so disgusted with Labour’s efforts re Peters and Glen that she was seriously reconsidering voting for Labour this time around. I would say that the recent misguided attempt at dirt-digging would have sealed the deal for her.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 4:45 pm
um..!..when exactly was woodham a ‘lefty’..?
..i must have missed it..
..phil(whoar.co.nz)
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Phil,
you missed the last two decades at least.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Would that be to the VRWC then
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Nothing like having to go to work every day, and pay an excessive amount of tax on your earnings to support the idle, to sharpen up your thought processes.
You should try Phool.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 6:12 pm
It’s more common for someone to shift from the Left to the Right than vice versa – and it’s all because of this wee thing called enlightenment.
Oh, and eating humble pie too. The Left never admit they are wrong. Apologists will find excuses to rationalise and exonerate the Stalinist regimes we still have around the world. Somehow, Lenin was a visionary even though he murdered 35-40 million people. Go figure.
I can see why people are attracted to leftist propaganda. It’s nice to be told the state will look after all your affairs. It’s nice to be told you can get money for not working. It’s nice to be told you deserve free education, plus an allowance to go with it, because we all know that the more you drink at Shadows, the higher your grades.
But just because something is nice, it doesn’t make it right.
When the state gives you something for free, it’s because it’s taken from someone else by force – someone who earned it and therefore deserves to keep it.
I try telling this to my friends on the Left, and I get called a cold-hearted turncoat/wanker/bastard/cunt/fascist.
And that’s about all I get as a reply/comeback. Very intellectual.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 8:07 pm
What the hell kind of right wing crap are you reading Shawn?! Who’s been feeding you that shi…..oh
never mind…..
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 8:12 pm
She used to look far too good dancing on the bartop to be a real socialist.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
woodham has always been a bit of a limp handwringing chardonay left leaner phil.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I suspect that Kerre has re-evaluated the effort/reward balance of her thinking based on her excellent efforts to complete a marathon. As anyone who has completed one knows, there is no short cut – no govt handout for the less capable, no benefit for being invalid – just hard training. If one can run a marathon one can achieve anything. Hardly fits with left leaning envy politics. Proof that it is never too late to turn your back on the seductiveness of living off someone else’s efforts.
Vote:November 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 pm
So what does this say about fabulously rich or even just wealthy lefties who’ve worked their arses off to get where they are?
Vote:November 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 am
Yes, I’ve been raiding your Ayn Rand library – thanks James.
Plus ‘Liberal Tide’ – it’s an enthralling read.
And to think the only economic theory I read previous to this was all three volumes of Marx’s ‘Das Kapital’.
Silly me…I ought to be smacked.
Now, if I indulge in self-flagellation (it’s the right thing to do, exercising personal responsibility and all!), will I fall foul of Bradford’s ‘Anti-Smacking Law’? Oh, what a conundrum.
Vote:November 3rd, 2008 at 6:31 am
All we need to do is get the Nats to be right wing again and we’ll all be on a winner
Key himself has said on TV3 news that he will be leading a Centrist Govt… yuck. Party vote ACT and we’ll let Shawn loose as well! 
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