Is this the link you are referring to, SP? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11388443
In a few ways, it wasn't terrifying, is that what John meant?
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Is this the link you are referring to, SP? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11388443
In a few ways, it wasn't terrifying, is that what John meant?
I think Labour lost because more and more people are communicating with each out on social media as it is a common media now,
and are therefore seeing, hearing and learning more information than the public used to get from mainstream media.
this has opened the door to the public getting a variety of news, opinion, facts and non-propaganda.
the left has always talked about inequality and the right has always talked about work hard and you should succeed.
the modern social media...... just the general public chatting online and reading general public thoughts has opened the door
to what is really going on.
we dont have 100's of thousands of kids starving like in 3rd world countries...... yet media and left wing politics says we have.
social media is also exposing the rampant routs from beneficiary abuse and government policy to give cash to silence it.
this is now changing because of people talking online and learning.
therefore the latest result in the election.
once the general population gets the real information they make the correct choice.
if the right wing support or back the 3 or 4 percent of real wealthy kiwis too much...... the majority will vote them out.
At this point it seems that the majority of kiwis are happy with less tax and a shrinking welfare budget.
My opinion after spending 40 years living in the south auckland region would be that the social distribution project from the left
went way too far.
I also think that most kiwis want a fair balance........ will we ever see it?
Labour will have a lot more chances in 2017, that will be the end of a three term run for National, long enough for them to show NZ that they probably don't have any answers. Colin James on "Work".
http://www.colinjames.co.nz/work-is-...it-used-to-be/
Neopole II, I'm not sure I should be commenting on your post, since I have not lived in/near South Auckland for 40 years. Your premise is that social media is all-pervading, the bringer of truth, and that is why Labour and the Left no longer have any credibility.
In that case, the Salvation Army and other suppliers of food parcels must all be very incorrect about increasing poverty. The loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs under National's watch, slowly being replaced with construction jobs in Christchurch for the meanwhile, surely impacted on South Auckland. This would be a fraction of what you are seeing, and parroting social media with the answer that these people should all go out and find a job, is a bit glib.
It is not Labour policy to provide handouts to the needy, their policy is to empower people and their families with meaningful jobs, and affordable housing. Isn't that what the proposed KiwiBuild scheme would have done? Pity we have to wait another three years to find out.
While there may be many middle and upper-class younger generations furiously tweeting and texting their newly-discovered right-wing thoughts about many issues, I bet there aren't too many details there about tax havens, income splitting, trusts, company fraud, tax-free capital gains, and the like. In many of these situations we're not talking about a few thousand dollars of benefits paid to an unemployed person - upper-class rorts run into the millions of dollars.
Nicely put Thomas Sowell! Love it, love it.
Far more important in South Auckland than Government action would be the Pacific Island churches taking their foot off the throat of Island families budgets. The pastors of course have luxurious houses, cars, boats, overseas trips, expensive schools for their kids and second homes/batches.
What we need is some ingenious Government legislation to get rid of these leeches and 10% tithing - anyone have any ideas? Would trump any proposed Labour Party action.
Hi Major,
Many years ago one of my colleagues husband was a Presbyterian Minister at a church( not Auckland) . The church was also shared by a Samoan Congregation. When the Samoan Minister left to return to Samoa the expectation was for the congregation to provide a farewell gift of cash, a total of $50,000( this was in the 1980s!) was duly gifted. My colleague and her minister husband were appalled.