I don’t agree that our Government shouldn’t own a power company business. Power is an essential commodity, and our community could not survive without it

You mean like food?

Why do you think Labour are screaming their nuts off? That’s what kept the Socialist scumbags in power for 9 years (money for nothing)
Sell it, sell it, sell it and let the market level. Change supplier or get your own generator – but keep the corruption out of the SOEs.

SOEs will still be 51% NZ and the Govt will get some, but the Lefties will not be able to milk it as they have done

They have brought us fatarse teacher slags that endlessly intone the fact that they are doing their best for the “KEED’s” despite the worst intentions of the folk who pay their over inflated wages.

When I hear so called dedicated teachers that call their charges “Children” then I may have more respect for them!

What socialist government has brought us is derelict education systems where schools and universities are perverted into uncivil and repellent political indoctrination camps, and in health, they have brought us death panels.

Anthony (612) Says:
February 16th, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Quite right Redbaiter – investing in more state owned schools and more state owned hospitals is unlikely to do anything to help the country become more prosperous – or even improve anyones wellbeing.

Quite right!
There is no difference between a sick ignorant person, and a healthy educated one.
Except that they tend to be more productive, less reliant on unemployment/sickness benefits and will likely have a greater quality of life.
Other than that, exactly the same

“I want a Government that invests in schools and hospitals”

Two phrases that identify you David Farrar as a disgrace to the founding principles of the National Party.

All you do when you show support for such ideas is open the gate to the communists, for in respect of the first phrase, it is only a small step to saying that all companies are providing “a public service” and therefore should be owned by the state.

In respect of the second, it is government “investment” (what a putrid term) in these sectors that allows them so much control over its citizens in other areas. For example, when government controls health it can control (if it chooses) our diet. When government controls education, it can pervert that service to a political indoctrination process.

You really have no idea of why our freedoms have been lost, and it is because you do not that NZ is now more firmly in the grip of the left than it has ever been in its history. Nothing is being wound back that should be, and it won’t be when key National Party supporters cling to the ideas you have exposed in this post.

You might as well be in the Labour party.

Who’d have thought Reid?

Hasn’t the government been bailing out finance company after finance company? In NZ the chance of being bailed out are just way, way too high. So not being part of the government doesn’t mean you don’t get bailed out. We just need to have a fundamental policy about who we are going to bail out, why, and when, and stick to it.

And obviously IMO we bail out no one. It’s called private enterprise after all.

Selling them now to dumb private investors would seem like a good idea.

I wish NZ corporations would do this a lot more, export their business model as a franchise opportunity in another market. What’s wrong with that? If it was a dumb business model it probably wouldn’t work, but if this the case I doubt MRP executives would have done this if it was.

I applaud it. This kind of thinking is Celtic Tiger thinking. If this whole country thought like that Irish thinking was in the 80, 90′s and Noughties, we’d have been leading Australia today, instead of the other way round. And this is just a tiny example of that.

Like a faint flare briefly illuming on the horizon in the middle of the darkest night you have ever been in. Let’s hope they don’t bungle it.

I think the kiwi bank model is the way to go. A hole bunch of private banks and one government owned option giving lower mortgage rates when the government wants them lowered, instead of the cash rate coming down and the government ordering the banks to lower their rates.. One step in the direction of freedom where banks are free to choose their rates and customers can go to kiwi bank for the lowest rates in town… Perfect…

What about a government owned supermarket chain to compete against the big boys? Any takers?