Muldoon’s Vision vs Today’s Technocrats
How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
How NZ Super was built by a patriot and undermined by consultants.
Could a politician be any more disingenuous? Could a politician be any more duplicitous? National may not even be in government in 2029. They may not even exist as a party the way they are going.
Frank Sinatra’s last words before he died might just come back to haunt both Labour and their fellow cohorts in the media. He spoke just two words and they were: “I’m losing.”
The Productivity Commission had the chance in 2003 to strike a blow for freedom and prosperity. Instead, it chose conformity, groupthink, and protection of the state’s egregious intervention in the economy.
Australia is in trouble enough without Wellington wokies flocking here.
This was just another taxpayer-funded junket for Māori Sovereignty activists to slam the ‘racist’ government.
This isn’t all bad news. Just like the internet took away many jobs, it has created far more new jobs and new opportunities.
The reality is this: it is cruel and callous to incentivise the birth of otherwise unwanted children. And it is a cruel and callous person who produces a child purely for their own monetary gain.
If COP30 in Belém is remembered as the ‘COP of truth,’ it should be because citizens saw the truth: behind the rainforest backdrop and people-friendly branding, this process is concentrating power far from the people it claims to serve.
Simon Power’s KiwiSaver advocacy is therefore less about retirement savings than about profit, influence and the audacity of a system where cashflow is guaranteed, risk is socialised and reward is private.