tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post3516920406818739606..comments2024-03-04T16:39:30.609+13:00Comments on Lindsay Mitchell: Roger Kerr's successorLindsay Mitchellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04437693272797130833noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-35116346661688524122012-05-07T01:21:06.461+12:002012-05-07T01:21:06.461+12:00wholeheartedly correct
utter rubbish. Crucially -...<i> wholeheartedly correct</i><br /><br />utter rubbish. Crucially - and critically - in NZ <b>politics have converged on the extreme left</b> rather than the centre! Consider Barak Obama, whom more than half of the US House of Representatives consider an unreconstructed communist, is far, far to the right of <b>any NZ political party</b> including ACT and the LIbz. <br /><br />The idea that NZ politics have converged on the centre is simply crazy: we;ve converged on communism - not even communism by stealth but communism under open light of day!<br /><br /><i>no one wants to see high unemployment</i><br /><br />Oh really - any orthodox economist knows that NZ needs another batch of 20-25% unemployment , if not 30% (50% youth) as in Spain --- if it is even to start getting wage rates down to something realistic, getting productivity up, etc. And here we have the old Business Round Table coming out against unemployment.<br /><br />Less than a week ago, Lindsay, you posted about how every single one of Ruth's (and Roger's) hard won reforms had been totally undone by the Bolger and Clark governments! Those reforms need to be reenacted again, from scratch, faster and harder and deeper than before; and not stopping until the job really has finished! <br /><br />That's what NZ needs from the NZ Initiative, not this sort of claptrap! <br /><br />Roger Kerr must be spinning in his grave.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19962237.post-52874319579930496072012-05-06T21:00:13.293+12:002012-05-06T21:00:13.293+12:00Brilliant stuff. And wholeheartedly correct.Brilliant stuff. And wholeheartedly correct.Nick Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13036678707694028238noreply@blogger.com