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Mr Bolger promised an end to Rogernomics and won a mandate but the moment votes had been counted after the 1990 election he put a Rogernome, Ms Ruth Richardson, into the finance portfolio and in came policies like Crown Health Enterprises (you had to pay a fee to go to a hospital), asset sales (NZ Railways was sold as were the last of the public shareholding in BNZ bank), unemployment soared to above 20% for Maori and toward 9% for non-Maori and welfare dependency and drug abuse and violence rose.
Unemployment was higher or similar in the UK and Australia and Canada and France and Italy.
Welfare dependency dropped between 1990 and 1996 by 22 percent.
Drug abuse and violence rose. Just as they continue to rise today under the Clark government.
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I have the 1990 National manifesto. It included privatisation, it included major labour market reform including ending compulsory unionism, it included greater private provision of health and education.
The Nats only lied about two things:
1. Superannuation surcharge;
2. University fees.
The rest was in the manifesto - but who reads that? Certainly not the drop kicks like Gilbert Miles.
Robson? Who is Matt Robson?
The fellow traveller who visited Cuba and praised the virtues of the ancient communist dictator of the Caribbean.
His opinion is as irrelevant (and inaccurate) as Parakura Horomia's speeches.
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