tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post8981404524216335732..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Only Radicals Need ApplyChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-20737518191480475052009-12-05T19:21:49.712+13:002009-12-05T19:21:49.712+13:00My wife and I disagree about John Key.
She believ...My wife and I disagree about John Key.<br /><br />She believes he is feigning moderation for electoral reasons and will gradually emerge as no more moderate than Brash or (heaven help us) Shipley<br /><br />I tend to the view that Key is a 'work in progress'. I think he entered parliament, his head filled with the neo-liberal simplicities that pass for axiomatic truth in corporate circles but is learning fast that you can't run a country the way you run a business.<br /><br /> I also think he's starting to enjoy the centrist, statesmanlike pose and that becoming a member of the international heads of government mutual admiration society might also be having an impact on him. <br /><br />I should add that my wife tends to get things right more often than I. <br /><br />VictorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-85674584819150107442009-12-05T14:40:21.026+13:002009-12-05T14:40:21.026+13:00It has to be pointed out that Rob Muldoon, like Jo...It has to be pointed out that Rob Muldoon, like John Key, came from a humble background himself. He, too was brought up by a solo mother (his father was in hospital with a chronic illness during most of his hospital), and he grew up amongst the hardship of the Great Depression (He was incidentally, the last PM of this country to have served in combat, in Italy and the Pacific).<br /><br />He knew that monetarist neo-liberal policies, like the ones mentioned in the 2025 report, would effectively force a large amount of the population into hardship never seen before, for pusuit of what amounts to be a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow.<br /><br />This is probably giving him too much credit, but deep down, I belive that John Key knows this too. But we will see.<br /><br />Incidentally, the same day this report came out, a private company launches a small rocket into space from an island in the Hauraki Gulf. While media probably overhyped it a little bit, I belive that we perhaps need to wake up the fact that the road to prosperity lies in the science, technology and engineering sector. Its a pity that the neo-liberal revolution effectively removed that perspective from the core public sector in the 1980's.<br /><br />MillsyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36873550222900537672009-12-05T08:11:42.128+13:002009-12-05T08:11:42.128+13:002025 Aotearoa- a Radical Left wing programme.2025 Aotearoa- a Radical Left wing programme.Omar Hamed, Socialist Aotearoahttp://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2009/12/2025-aotearoa-alternative-vision.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-43798325316035294152009-12-04T14:54:34.290+13:002009-12-04T14:54:34.290+13:00Here we agree. Selwyn Pellett's play for atten...Here we agree. Selwyn Pellett's play for attention to the exporters' needs explicitly says that it is the parliamentary Left that alone can package the measures that will move the NZ economy forward. People like Bryan Gould, who,in my view, doesn't get anything like the attention that he serves for his economic thinking, is laying out that blueprint, as is the CTU with its AES. From that perspective, there is a remote possibility of common ground across the Centre on an alternative economic policy and, if you ask me, that's what's fuelling Fran O'Sullivan's current rancour - the possibility that something other than the Brash prescription might gain a cross-party hold. Politically, it's unlikely, but it's an interesting prospectRobert Winterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10747910822318229159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-47797434378233719262009-12-04T13:20:04.995+13:002009-12-04T13:20:04.995+13:00Well said!Well said!Olwynnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-30898083656564764152009-12-04T13:18:56.950+13:002009-12-04T13:18:56.950+13:00"ALL its citizens"?
Jesus Christ arn'..."ALL its citizens"?<br />Jesus Christ arn't the like of Paul Reynolds, Ian Morrice, Rob Fyfe and David Baldwin already getting enough?<br />Your solution is not a big improvement on Don's my friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com