In a piece with headline Price of progress hurts Kiwis Fairfax
media notes…
The rampant
cost of living means two-income families are increasingly worse off than
single-income families were a generation ago – and it is threatening to put
them under.
While median
incomes and the number of women in the workforce has risen substantially, the
money that families are putting into servicing the long-term commitments of a
standard middle class lifestyle – comprehensive health insurance, a house in
the right suburb and investment in education – has soared. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/7200255/Price-of-progress-hurts-Kiwis
Being old enough to remember that far back
they are dead right, but to call it progress?
This is not the result of progress this is obvious
consequences of thirty years of decline.
The consequences of Roger Douglas’s failed reforms are now at the point
where the decline becomes terminal. The
sale of our energy companies and the Crafar farms are the signs of terminal
decline as is the widespread increase in poverty – we are selling the last of
the family silver to eat and we are chopping up the furniture to burn to keep
warm. Meanwhile we live in the most well
endowed country on the planet on a per capita basis. Given that one has to ask why we are in such
a state. Are we lazy? I would suggest
not.
We are suffering this fate for no other reason than
that we have had archly stupid, short sighted and unmoral
leadership across both business and politics since Roger unleashed the dark
side of private enterprise upon the functions of the State. We have since then had leaders of both business and politics
acting in disregard for the law and with impunity as the norm. Worst of all we have an economic ideology
dominating our society that is destroying us.
It is time for a change at the most
profound level. We need to take back
control of our society and our economy, but most of all we need to take back
control of our supposedly democratically elected leadership.
Is Labour up to it?
