‘TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE
With the budget fast approaching, National is finally being forced to do something about a government sector that has grown far too big. According to Treasury, since 2005 “government spending has ballooned by about 50 percent – twice the rate of Government revenue growth and twice the rate of economic growth”.[1] As a result, core Crown expenses that were an affordable 29 percent of the economy in 2005, have now blown out to an unaffordable 35 percent.

The Minister of Finance outlined the problem this way, “The Government has now become the driver of the growth in our debt to foreigners, and our total public and private debt to foreigners is the highest in the world. We are already borrowing $300 million per week and borrowing more than that would be totally irresponsible. New Zealand’s total indebtedness to the world is up there with Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain at about 85 percent of GDP. A better level would be somewhere around 60 percent of GDP, which is about where Australia is, and internationally regarded as low risk.”[2]
….There is no doubt that over the last decade the encroaching machinery of state has expanded into every corner of our business and personal lives. There are bizarre stories: business owners in Christchurch who haven’t been allowed to retrieve the crucial materials they need to restart their enterprises; business owners in provincial New Zealand wanting to relocate to bigger business premises getting slammed with a whopping $20,000 in council and consultant fees and ordered to comply with a landscape plan that required the planting of 80 trees on a quarter acre section! Big government is holding back people with initiative, yet these are the very people the country needs to get the economy growing again..’

And that’s a fraction of it. Muriel’s newsletter gives some jaw-dropping examples of government waste and Soviet-level bureaucracy. Read it and weep.

From Gates of Vienna:
‘Melanie Phillips is a well-known British anti-jihad author and a columnist for The Spectator. On March 13th, concerning the Itamar massacre, she wrote the following in her column:

“Today the massacred Fogel family was buried in Jerusalem. And as anticipated, the moral depravity of the Arabs is finding a grotesque echo in the moral bankruptcy and worse of the British and American ‘liberal’ media…

So to the New York Times, it’s not the Arab massacre of a Jewish family which has jeopardised ‘peace prospects’ — because the Israelis will quite rightly never trust any agreement with such savages — but instead Israeli policy on building more homes, on land to which it is legally and morally entitled, which is responsible instead for making peace elusive. Twisted, and sick.”

The progressive intelligentsia and their Muslim friends immediately went into apoplexy over Ms. Phillips’ words. To say such things about our friends the Arabs — how racist! How Islamophobic!.’

Now Melanie Phillips is being “investigated”….and some of the comments under the GoV post are brilliant.

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

“…It is as I warned then Prime Minister John Howard: we could gold-plate the taps at Wadeye and it would still be a sink of despair, with no work and no future. Hard though it is, many Aboriginal settlements must die – for the sake of the children.”       and he’s right.

‘Dame Kiri asked to abandon Israel singing plans
Opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa is being urged to abandon plans to sing in Israel by New Zealand supporters of the Palestinian cause.
Global Peace and Justice Auckland (GPJA) says it has written asking her to withdraw from her scheduled performance at the Israel Festival in late May.
GPJA spokesman John Minto said Dame Kiri should show support for an international campaign to boycott Israeli events in protest at the Israeli government’s policies towards the Palestinians…’

You, Minto are a slimy little shit-stirrer who needs to get out and get a useful job. Your agitation on behalf of the “freedom fighters” of South Africa helped produce misery and genocidal policies and we’ve yet to hear an apology from you and your fellow-travelling Marxist scum for that. The people you’re now agitating on behalf of, bomb school buses and murder kids in their beds. That makes you and your unwashed loathsome companions a life-form somewhere below dog shit. Just do us all a favour and fuck off and die. Preferably, in a very unpleasant way.

Thanks to Kevin for this.
1. Teaching Maths In 1970
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100..
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?
2. Teaching Maths In 1980
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 80% of the price.
What is his profit?
3. Teaching Maths In 1990

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‘..In a Vienna hospital, the gender-segregation rules demanded by Muslims are applied to everyone, Muslim or otherwise. The parents of a little girl undergoing heart surgery were dismayed to find that they had no choice but to follow the sharia rules.
….Two Austrian parents had this experience when the father intended to spend the night by the hospital bed of his six year-old daughter after a planned-for operation. From the very start, at registration in Vienna Medical Center East, the parents had to agree in writing that the mother — and definitely not the father — would take the night vigil…’               Gates of Vienna

The dominoes are falling….

creepy stuff……do you know what your kids are being taught?  Read and find out:

‘The room buzzes with little voices. Little children engage in “mature, dramatic play.” An adult helps the children “regulate” and “monitor each other’s compliance” with “rules and assigned roles.”[1] Each child knows his or her place. Each child does the group’s bidding, nothing else.

Orwell’s 1984? No, a scene played out in thousands of classrooms across America. The drumbeat of collectivism begins in preschool……                              the rest HERE

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Thanks to Remus

‘The Greens have failed again. And that failure seems now irreversible.
Consider: this is a party with everything going its way. It has incredible support from people in the media and entertainment industry. Schools for years have indoctrinated students – the young generation of voters – in its green values. Many institutions and members of the teacher-preacher class now promote its green values on global warming, Aboriginal “reconciliation” and boat people. In NSW, yesterday’s state election even coincided with Earth Hour, the holiest day of the Greens’ calender.
Yet:
The Greens bid to make history by claiming its first seat in the NSW lower house has faltered, with Marrickville likely to remain with Labor and Balmain too close to call.
The swing to the Greens, even when Labor voters deserted their party in their hundreds of thousands, was just 1 per cent. This is a humiliation for the Greens and Bob Brown.   Andrew Bolt