We come first
Hells' bells and buggy wheels ... or rather potato crisps, plastic bags and fruit flies (or wasps). I had no idea that every country right around the globe is hell-bent on chasing a favourable balance of trade. That means exporting everything they can to other countries.
So what do we find on the local supermarket shelves? Potato chips/crisps from Bulgaria. Plastic bags from Turkey and a bewildering assortment of foreign stuff from all over the world, plus all the dross that may go with it, certainly poisonous redback spiders from Australia. Perhaps the next nasty from that country will be cane toads!
So thousands of container ships ply the oceans with millions of containers aboard. This madness must stop, otherwise the cargo cult philosophy brought about by monetary system which is right out of kilter will end in a shooting war. Perhaps that has already started. No; each country should look inwardly, firstly looking after its own citizens, producing that which is natural to the climate, and only exporting surplus which may arise.
The unnecessary scramble to export holus bolus has been brought about because of an unbalanced money system, and those who may have read previous letters from me in the Northland Age may begin to realise that I'm not kidding when I have suggested many times that the government should make use of Reserve Bank credit, as occurred in the 1930s.
