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Now I am filthy with many decisions made by both sides of government, things like the sale of Testra, the introduction of the Baby bonus and the fighting of someone Else's 'unwinnable war' to name just a few, however, I am more filthy about the careless way that the labor governments have time and time again wasted our taxes, so much so that we now have to run some type of 'chook raffle' just so we can pay the fix up bills.

Sure, we may be in pretty good shape, but try explaining that to a self funded retiree, who after slogging their guts out for decades, are told, sorry, but you are to well off to qualify for assistance.

a597>>It's incredible the constant degrading of our govt; These people had their chance to vote

Believe me, I voted, but it is hard to win when the beaten go to any length to retain office.

>>all they can come up with ways of sending the country backward.

I'm sorry, but the labor government has that trophy well and truly in their grasp. But hey, they have been given enough rope, I'm just waiting for them to hang themselves.

BYW, I wonder how many of our own who have lost loved ones recently were offered a free ticket to the funerals.

Yet another doozy. But hey, it's not as if they are wasting their money, is it!

the process of dumbing down the people
[as a deliberated policy]..is paying off

people now have a short attention span
they dont read contracts [deliberatly written in long winded legal eaze] they have been re-engeneered to the 30 second soundbite..

[usually presented by a screaming nutter raving loud enough to wake us temporally up ..from our tv induced hypnotic slumber..to alert us its time to consume

before sending us back into the fight
or rather ..mainly flight/fear ..*reflex
that delivers a docile population
that spends when its told to spend

[its funny how we only see a disaster
after the media repeatedly broadcasts it]

we dont read contracts
and now its bearing its fruits

if insurance had any value it would pay out first
then sue the greedy water mob who got too greedy
subverted the damm dam to be overfull..

then agrivating a minor flood ..into a huge disaster
..by releasing that water gold ..it sought to hoard..or sell off for the big bucks payoff ..in the new water costs ..big money ..parra-dim-e

to wit..the half wits could sue
those who really agrivated the flood
not just in queeny land.. but in the snowey lands as well

but let them who would be dumbed down
and be decieved
be decieved

how has the ignorance trance medium
served you the con-sumer

Courageous,a597:
Why don`t we just cut through all this diversionary crap

of petty attempts at point-scoring, and tackle the original

issues that I posted in this Thread,"how we are going to

pay for these disasters" and "what are we going to do about

reducing Foreign Aid?"....All that you have been able to

contribute to this discussion is the typical hairy fairy

rhetoric of "we have plenty of money to play with!" which

I have already pointed out is total bovine excreta!

We have no other option at this time than to write another

cheque on an already overdrawn account, ( which is going

to add to the total Deficit!). We need to look at ways

now to reduce our indebtedness by considering cuts to

Foreign Aid and many other questionable "gifting".....

after all if you or I were overdrawn at the bank,( and

looked like losing our home ) we would be totally insane

to give a large donation to a blind man on the street!

Charity begins at home,...always has and always will!

I’m just going to drag this thread back out because I’m kinda surprised to hear about the teams on their way to Christchurch.

I actually thought Aussie had its own problems and rather larger ones on the natural disaster list right now.

Why are they going there?

Is it something that must be seen to be being done for diplo reasons?

America also has sent help.
Those going are experts in a Field not related to floods
And for most of us ANZAC means a great deal Kiwis would be here just as fast and in fact both country's have sent personnel all over the world.
I very much doubt any need to prove our country's mutual pain at this tragic event exists.
I will give to this appeal too equally as I did to our own.

I didn't donate to either. I stopped donating to anything since developing a deep distrust of any charity.

But I do have a Christchurch guest in my home so will consider that doing my bit for now.

And if I can't soon discover who profits from harvesting body parts here I will also change my mind about being an organ donor. I saw something about 150k being made per body - organ donations might be classified non profit but they charge big time to actually chop bodies up.

I still don't get the disaster stuff. There are Aussies in NZ helping and Kiwi's in QLD - wouldn't it be cheaper to keep them at home to help?