A sense of civic duty

[Finn]

If a perceptual filter could be constructed to remove cuntishness, half of your posts would make damn good sense, and the other half would be blank.

Sorry I'm not conforming to your leftish ideology.

The more social engineering I get shoved down my throat and the more this Government does to push NZ further into the dark ages, the more cuntishness I get.

The answer to me being "nice" is a lot more simple than cutting code.

[jrandom]

Sorry I'm not conforming to your leftish ideology.

Aside from my masturbation technique, I'm no lefty. I reject the canonical one-dimensional political spectrum.

The answer to me being "nice" is a lot more simple than cutting code.

I make no pretense to having the answers.

[Edit: Oh. A lot more simple. I posted rather too quickly. Righto, then, you supply the army of immigrants, I'll bring a crate of weapons, Helen can be first against the wall.]

[oldrider]

So there I am in a café quaffing my lunch with an extravagant soft drink & treat slice of fudge that I don’t really need reading the local rag (Hutt News).

They are on about the foodbank on one page & the next about pokie machines. Lower hutt recording one of the worst amounts spent on pokies, ~ $77 for every man women & child over a 3 month period. Obviously over a far smaller number of people this is a large problem raking money from those least able to afford it.

This is a form of escapism, in a similar vein to drinking, drug abuse and smoking. I could get myself in a better place ‘if I could only win Lotto’ mentality.

Shopping for entertainment absorbs people’s money. Do they really need those ‘things’? A further article is on the loss of jobs at Dux plant. Manufacturing is getting uneconomic in New Zealand.

Do we really need the cheap goods we so crave when waved in our face? Was throwing off the tariffs and protectionism of the 70s the right thing to do?

That is a hard question. One it is hard to reverse now the tiger is out of the cage.


Further thinking is at least how can I help? How can We help?

So I walked back to work waiting for an Epiphany. It didn’t come.

Can I help people with poor budgeting skills? Do we really need another ‘Money Man’ except one with no financial qualifications or experience only armed with an opinionated view of what people spend too much money on? Probably not.

It does grate me that people are being harvested for their hard earned money without fully appreciating the implications of their actions.

Which brings me back to the gambling thing I guess. I am angry at the politicians who let this sort of thing be introduced despite the problem gambling assoc screaming the troubles it would cause.

Then there are the claims that it brings in money for sporting charities etc. Oh bollocks! Only a small percentage of the take & these gains are vastly outstripped by the money extracted from the same community. Well actually the sporting clubs are probably a lot better heeled than the victims caught up in the gambling spiral.

So how do I, or possibly we, attack the current situation? I don’t think letters to the editor or local politician are going to make sod all difference.

If you really meant any of that, have you "really" ever studied any of the alternatives and given them your support?

For instance, this site (www.libertarianz.org.nz/) is the opposite to what we have now and says the same things you say!

If you always do what you always did, you will always get what you have always got!

Continuing to vote for what the "popular press" tells you to vote for, will just get you more of your original post! Cheers John.(back on target?)