New Zealand First Says....
"LOSING OUR BIRTHRIGHT" About foreign Ownership
We are gradually losing our sovereignty and the right of New Zealanders to own our land, our shores and our economy. Unless we act soon future generations will curse us for what we let this National-led government do to our country.
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"WHAT JOHN KEY'S LETTER DID NOT SAY" - About superannuation
It is a chance to talk about some of the issues you face but the main topic is a letter that you received recently. It was written by a team of spin doctors, signed by the Prime Minister John Key, and paid for by the taxpayers. It outlines in glowing terms the financial heaven you will all be living in after tax cuts and an increase in super on the 1st of October. In fact – from that letter we could think that you will never have it so good! The letter speaks glowingly of the Budget. Surprise surprise! Apparently the tax system is being changed, reduced across the board, becoming fairer and people are being encouraged to save.
And it says....”We are boosting New Zealand Superannuation and the Veterans” Pension to FAIRLY compensate for the GST rise.” The boost actually is just over two percent. Like – you are getting 2.02 percent to compensate for the GST rise?
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EDUCATE NEW ZEALANDERS FIRST SAYS PETERS About Uni Students
New Zealand First has called on the government to ensure that young people qualified for university study are not cast aside in favour of fee-paying overseas students.
This follows a report that places at many popular universities will be restricted next year to students who gain top marks at high school - a move which could stop up to 3500 young people studying where they want.
From next year admission rules at Auckland, Massey, Victoria and Otago universities, will become tougher as the institutions raise entry standard levels in all of the courses they offer.
Rt Hon Winston Peters said today that it would be of serious concern if qualified students missed out on tertiary study because they had an “absolute right” to gain qualifications.
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“Actions Speak Louder than Words”
For many years now Orewa, as a venue, has had a political ring to it ever since Sir Robert Muldoon launched the political year with his January Rotary Club speech. Years after Sir Robert’s annual performance here another National Party leader kicked off his campaign for higher office with a speech to the same Orewa Rotary Club on 27th January 2004.
With barely an exception his party celebrated that speech and committed themselves to making its’ themes a political reality. It’s important that 6 years on we remind ourselves of what that leader said here and put that political template against the present reality.
Dr Brash spoke of “the essential notion of one rule for all in a single nation state”. He set that aspiration against a “racial divided nation, with two sets of laws, and two standards of citizenship, that the present Labour Government is moving us steadily towards”. He evoked Hobson’s expression “he iwi tahi tatou. We are one people”. He said “ I believe in plain speaking”.
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“Radix Malorum Est Cupiditas” - about the Budget
There is an old Latin saying “radix malorum est cupiditas” or as originally written in the bible -"the love of money is the root of all evil". All we can say today is – many centuries after those words were written - nothing has changed. The leaders of this country love money – particularly other peoples' - and there is no doubt that a serious evil is befalling the land of the long white cloud. You only have to look at Bill English - who delivered the Budget this week on behalf of his currency trader leader.
Comment on Thursdays Budget has been nothing short of remarkable in its sanguine positivism. However the devil in this budget is not in the detail but in the economic reality of NZ’s place in the scheme of things.
