Election ranting, part two

Dec 08, 2008 12:31

Oh, shut up. A week does so count as "a couple of days" by the standards of this blog ( Read more... )

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pelliondance December 10 2008, 14:59:09 UTC

Peter Dunne was Labour. Clive Ma(t)thewson (whose son was in your class at George St) started the United Party, but lost the South Dunedin seat under First Past the Post, while Dunne kept his.

Social Credit-not totally clear myself. They were nicknamed the "Funny Money Party". I think they were big on creating money as and when you needed it. I read a scenario in a newspaper once, reported in a scathing way by whichever columnist it was. Some Social Crediter gave the following example-Suppose you needed to carry out some major project, like building a massive bridge. You pay the workers with specially marked notes, which were destroyed when they came back to the Reserve Bank. And so, concluded the enthusiast, you would have built the bridge for nothing. How accurately this represented their theory, I can't say. I always had an impression (possibly erroneous) that the economic system portrayed in B.F. Skinner's novel Walden Two was similar to Social Credit theory ( ... )

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Interesting if it's true cannopener January 24 2009, 09:40:11 UTC
In particular, benefits for single parents were slashed. They say the first three years of life are the most critical to moral development. New Zealand is currently experiencing a wave of violent crime by people whose first three years of life occurred during the previous National government's tenure.

Reference?

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And btw cannopener January 24 2009, 09:47:22 UTC
in my experience, what everyone in whatever job or "class" or anything wants is just a bit more and better than what they're getting, in whatever area is important to them.

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