Is NZ in much better shape?

Via Andrew Bolt:

‘This is from the Irish government’s own 140 page ‘National Recovery Plan‘ published yesterday.
It is amazing reading.

From 2000 to 2009 average public sector salaries increased 59%
In 2004, 34% of income earners were exempt from tax. In 2010, 45% were exempt
In 2007 property taxes generated 6.7 billion euros. In 2010 that figure will be 1.6 billion
In 2009 interest on government debt was 8% of tax revenues. In 2014 it will be 20%. ‘

Say WHAAT?

‘A bitter spat has broken out after Sensible Sentencing Trust spokesman Garth McVicar called for the head of Police Commissioner Howard Broad.
Labour MP Clayton Cosgrove this morning condemned McVicar for what he said amounted to a ”crass and insensitive attack” on Broad.
Cosgrove said McVicar’s attack, which was over comments about rethinking who is sent to prison, were unbelievable given what police were going through following the tragedy at the Pike River coal mine…’

Yegods! Spare me……”what police are going through”?  Police are fucking PAID to “go through” police work and if they don’t know by now what that work may entail maybe the poor petals need to look for new careers–perhaps as interior designers or hairdressers.  And Cosgrove is a slimy opportunist dickhead.

Happy thanksgiving, America!

And John Stossel has a gentle reminder for you:
A Lost Thanksgiving Lesson

‘Had today’s political class been in power in 1623, tomorrow’s holiday would have been called “Starvation Day” instead of Thanksgiving. Of course, most of us wouldn’t be alive to celebrate it.
………….Long before the failure of modern socialism, the earliest European settlers gave us a dramatic demonstration of the fatal flaws of collectivism. Unfortunately, few Americans today know it…….’

‘Freedom in the Dock’

‘Austria is on the path to becoming a totalitarian state. That will be clearer than ever this Tuesday. The justice system is actually prosecuting a woman for making critical statements about Islam.

Seminar lecturer Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff — in the cabinet of Wolfgang Schüssel in the 1990s, and later active at several embassies in the Arab world — will be accused of making Islam-critical statements. Meanwhile, in Austria, for time out of mind, every discriminatory act or word against the Catholic church goes unpunished….’ Gates Of Vienna

The bastards are winning, aren’t they? Now we have thought crimes trials in aid of the islamist thugs, in order to shut down any dissent concerning the multiculti project. And the truth is no defence–it’s become irrelevant.

How’s that multiculturalism thing going, Britain?

‘An Asian gang of ‘sexual predators’ cruised city streets for girls as young as 12 – usually white – who were then plied with drink and drugs and raped or abused.
Up to 100 ‘vulnerable’ girls may have been groomed or abused or supplied cocaine by married fathers Abid Saddique and Mohammed Liaqat, and their seven friends.
…..Today Saddique and Liaqat, both British born and of Pakistani origin who had arranged marriages in that country, were facing years behind bars after being found guilty of an horrific catalogue of sexual abuse over an 18-month period.
Reporting restrictions were lifted at the end of a third and final trial into the Derby gang’s activities. The seven other guilty members of the gang have already been jailed.
News of the case comes little more than a fortnight after an Asian sex gang operating 45 miles away from Derby in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, were jailed for abusing white girls as young as 12. A similar gang from Rochdale, Lancashire, who turned a white private schoolgirl into their sex slave were jailed in August.’                      source

Thomas Sowell:

‘..Those who made excuses for all of candidate Barack Obama’s long years of alliances with people who expressed their contempt for this country, and when as president he appointed people with a record of antipathy to American interests and values, may finally get it when they feel some stranger’s hand in their crotch.
As for the excuse of “security,” this is one of the least security-minded administrations we have had.

When hundreds of illegal immigrants from terrorist-sponsoring countries were captured crossing the border from Mexico— and then released on their own recognizance within the United States, that tells you all you need to know about this administration’s concern for security.
When captured terrorists who are not covered by either the Geneva Convention or the Constitution of the United States are nevertheless put on trial in American civilian courts by the Obama Justice Department, that too tells you all you need to know about how concerned they are about national security…’                       source

Exactly!

“At the same time that the federal government is mandating the physical and constitutional violation of air travelers at our airports, they are prohibiting law enforcement officers in Arizona from asking for proof of identity and citizenship from those they suspect as being illegal aliens for ‘constitutional’ concerns.” – Doug Hagmann