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Willis’ career is approaching election year with a stumble and a yawn. By election day, it may well have died in its sleep.
Is not the real problem, who, if truth be told, is actually neglecting Māori?
The debt on the interest the Victorian government has racked up over the past decade is over $100,000 per hour, though it may be as much as $791,000 per hour based on ABC calculations (if the Australians Broadcasting Communism can’t even hide how bad it is, it must be absolutely catastrophic).
National has work to do...and fast. Otherwise, a lot of those blue seats will turn red next election.
They don’t understand that it’s their own policies causing the pain. Yet when prices rise, unemployment creeps up, and housing becomes unaffordable they just double down on price controls, taxes, wage mandates, bloated spending, and regulatory overreach.
Only invest what you can afford to lose, which should be pretty obvious. In fact, putting money in crypto can be quite fun. But please, don’t treat it as serious investment.
The very worst thing we can do is to continue down the current path of welfarism and creeping UBI. As a society we need to provide help for those whose jobs disappear to retrain and look for the new opportunities that will arise.
Will Milei and his program of real economic freedom be given a full chance, not just for two years but for an entire decade or even longer? For that is the timeframe needed for the transition to a free market economy.
The future of the New Zealand economy is not “Māori”. It is New Zealand – built by all New Zealanders, under the same rules.
How National’s political brains trust missed this is baffling. It is straight out of the playbook. Remember Ronald Reagan’s killer line from 1980: “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Swap in two years and it fits New Zealand like a glove.
This should not be treated as an exotic exception. It should be the rule.
American households are hurting. With wage growth lagging and inflation compounding, no amount of presidential bluster can mask the math.
Nice-to-haves and need-to-haves often amount to the same thing.
How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
