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20th November 2009, 20:38
In A Perfect World
In a perfect world, where every man, woman and child adheres to the principles set out first by Plato then reaffirmed in the works of Ayn Rand, every person would adhere to the concept of cooperative selfishness.
But to arrive at this perfect world, where every citizen was sufficiently educated and emotionally capable of putting aside all negative influences which now contain them, we would have to obliterate mankind and start again; with just two.
But how would we select these two? Who would be the arbiter? God? I don’t think so. He made a mess of the last pairing so I see no reason to believe he’d get it right on the second attempt.
The fact is; we live in a world peopled by imperfect beings.
Eleven billion folk, each with a slightly to significantly different point of view.
Thus to have all agree to any one contract is an impossibility.
Therefore we eschewed the concept of oligarchies (Kings, Queens and other sundry beggars) and allowed the invocation of governments; folk we came to elect believing they would do the best for the most, knowing that no matter their best there would always be the disenfranchised.
And it was from this morass of departing views that Sir Owen Woodhouse conceived ACC.
An utterly brilliant scheme.
A scheme so good, in fact, that The President of America is working overtime to introduce, and for one reason only. Mr Obarma has realised that the lawyers are the only ones who truly profit from litigation, not the victims.
So here’s the President of the United States Of America seriously considering the NZ ACC system, while our very own Prime Minister is trying to figure out how to remodel ACC in the American way….ergo, privatise it and therefore reembroil Kiwis in litigation.
You see, ACC cannot be privatised unless it is reformed and privatised into a pure insurance programme unless the victims of events are allowed to sue the agressors.
And we know where that leads. Today it is clear negligence, tomorrow it is a cow suing McDonalds for a coffee-scorched fanny, or a biker who upsets a concerned mother of three because he passed her and scared her and her children and, therefore can reasonably claim a cause of action through the courts….That is the American way.
That is the way Obarma is going to stop by introducing NZ’s ideal, ACC, presuming he lives long enough.
Do you see the point here? We have to fight with all we have to retain ‘OUR’ ACC, exactly as Sir Owen designed.
It is not an insurance scheme.
It is a compensatory scheme designed to remove the right of lawyers to suck the innocent into litigation.
It is a no fault scheme. Sure, that means dickheads being dickheads get paid out. But they pay in pain, so we can all feel a little bit of happiness about that.
We must fight to not just preserve ACC. We must fight to have it returned to the original ideal of no-fault.
In that way there can be no targeted levies, there can be no increased levies for certain sectors of industry.
How do we get this?
Simple.
We demand an increase in GST, by 2.5%, and have that money used expressly for all ACC claims.
How do we achieve this?
Simple. 5,000 bikers started the programme. Now we just have to get a few more million Kiwis to understand how important it is that we return to the original ethic od ACC, as set out by Sir Owen.
How do we achieve this?
Simple.
We start acting like men…and I use that term in the loosest form….and follow the French and Italians by making life so unbearable for Smith and his cohorts, that they back off.
Being sweet and pleasant, and ever-so concerned about who we might offend next will not cut it
In a perfect world, where every man, woman and child adheres to the principles set out first by Plato then reaffirmed in the works of Ayn Rand, every person would adhere to the concept of cooperative selfishness.
But to arrive at this perfect world, where every citizen was sufficiently educated and emotionally capable of putting aside all negative influences which now contain them, we would have to obliterate mankind and start again; with just two.
But how would we select these two? Who would be the arbiter? God? I don’t think so. He made a mess of the last pairing so I see no reason to believe he’d get it right on the second attempt.
The fact is; we live in a world peopled by imperfect beings.
Eleven billion folk, each with a slightly to significantly different point of view.
Thus to have all agree to any one contract is an impossibility.
Therefore we eschewed the concept of oligarchies (Kings, Queens and other sundry beggars) and allowed the invocation of governments; folk we came to elect believing they would do the best for the most, knowing that no matter their best there would always be the disenfranchised.
And it was from this morass of departing views that Sir Owen Woodhouse conceived ACC.
An utterly brilliant scheme.
A scheme so good, in fact, that The President of America is working overtime to introduce, and for one reason only. Mr Obarma has realised that the lawyers are the only ones who truly profit from litigation, not the victims.
So here’s the President of the United States Of America seriously considering the NZ ACC system, while our very own Prime Minister is trying to figure out how to remodel ACC in the American way….ergo, privatise it and therefore reembroil Kiwis in litigation.
You see, ACC cannot be privatised unless it is reformed and privatised into a pure insurance programme unless the victims of events are allowed to sue the agressors.
And we know where that leads. Today it is clear negligence, tomorrow it is a cow suing McDonalds for a coffee-scorched fanny, or a biker who upsets a concerned mother of three because he passed her and scared her and her children and, therefore can reasonably claim a cause of action through the courts….That is the American way.
That is the way Obarma is going to stop by introducing NZ’s ideal, ACC, presuming he lives long enough.
Do you see the point here? We have to fight with all we have to retain ‘OUR’ ACC, exactly as Sir Owen designed.
It is not an insurance scheme.
It is a compensatory scheme designed to remove the right of lawyers to suck the innocent into litigation.
It is a no fault scheme. Sure, that means dickheads being dickheads get paid out. But they pay in pain, so we can all feel a little bit of happiness about that.
We must fight to not just preserve ACC. We must fight to have it returned to the original ideal of no-fault.
In that way there can be no targeted levies, there can be no increased levies for certain sectors of industry.
How do we get this?
Simple.
We demand an increase in GST, by 2.5%, and have that money used expressly for all ACC claims.
How do we achieve this?
Simple. 5,000 bikers started the programme. Now we just have to get a few more million Kiwis to understand how important it is that we return to the original ethic od ACC, as set out by Sir Owen.
How do we achieve this?
Simple.
We start acting like men…and I use that term in the loosest form….and follow the French and Italians by making life so unbearable for Smith and his cohorts, that they back off.
Being sweet and pleasant, and ever-so concerned about who we might offend next will not cut it