NZ Herald headline:
Warning – China is listening to our housing debate
‘New Zealand China Council chairman Sir Don McKinnon says we need to have a national debate on housing that avoids sending mixed messages to valued overseas partners…’
We’ll have whatever debate we damn well like– it’s called free speech.
FFS, with leadership like that, we are screwed. An ex National MP sticks up for China over NZ and its people. What else can we expect!!! NZ is truly screwed.
Yep.
The old saying is “Slow and steady wins the race”. We seem to be increasingly running from crisis to crisis, boom to bust looking for the next hit. It feels like its going to go “poof” shortly – and not in a homo way.
Yeah, it sure does feel like that Brown. But everybody will still be amazed when a recession arrives…
Well, I truly enjoy my chinese made jockey shorts. The cheap sandals are pretty good too. But I do wonder occasionally if one of their slaves pisses on my purchase before packing and shipping.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11480867
I now know this issue is gaining serious traction, when a Sinophile like O’Sullivan is beating the drums!
Yeah, I found that amazing!
Piss in boots? There is an urban myth here (England) that has it that takeaway curries have a higher sperm count than a rampant bull whale. Wouldn’t you (italics)?
‘House rage – we’re right to be angry’
“National MPs, 40 of whom own investment properties, are unlikely to take the view that house-price inflation is a bad thing. I’m angry about that, too.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/property/news/article.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=11480908
Last time I looked China has 1.394 billion people, and who knows how many millionaires or billionaires. NZ has about 4.5 million and they all seem to want to live in Auckland. China will soon control NZ. Maybe that does not bother the slow types who live in Gore or Invercargill because they hardly ever see a multi-culti clusterfuck, but it worries me because I live in the middle of one. Ah well, on the bright side, Chinese don’t tolerate Islam. Interesting times are coming.
They don’t tolerate islam, Mara. But neither do they tolerate free speech and liberty. (but with Amy-bloody-Adams’ help, we’re getting there.)
Which ever way we figure this out KG, we are goneburgers. Our young survive us and I for one take pleasure in the fact that my child was raised correctly.
It’s about the only consolation there is, Mara. Somebody once described children as “the longwalk of the blood”.
(John Fowles, “The Aristos” if memory serves)
The consolation me and Gecko have is that we’ve been free people when life was relatively free. We enjoyed the best of it and we’re no less in love now than we have always been.