It seems that much of the mainstream media have become apologists for US-engineered government policies that are designed to maximise profits to private interests and their already-rich shareholders, instead of benefiting the New Zealand economy or its citizens.
Our leaders seem intent on persuading us to accept failed models from a country with massive unpayable debts and growing poverty among its people. New studies have revealed that 93 per cent of economic growth in America now goes to the top 1 per cent, and poverty has risen to one in two. That is a very frightening model to imitate.
In America the middle classes have lost a lot of ground. Their labour laws have gone, their citizens' rights have been subsumed to a largely self-created threat to national security, and they are joining the ranks of poor, homeless and unemployed in droves.
If we adopt these same policies here in New Zealand we are fools, like the proverbial boiled frog who does not notice the incremental changes in water temperature.
We New Zealanders must be courageous enough to look at other models that are more suited to our traditional egalitarian ethics, which we have so carelessly discarded, in order to avoid following others like sheep to the slaughter.
