jonno* wrote:
If you think a third way social democracy in one of the most liberalized trading environments in the world 'stinks of communism' then I'm afraid you know nothing whatsoever about the subject.
As for your others comments - jesus christ
Mind pointing out what 'putting into iwi' is? Or how big of a focus the current green party policy has on marijuana law reform?
I'm also very intrigued as to your perception of socialism - where does punishing people for having children, cutting social welfare and reducing the number of people employed by the state fit into it?
I was exaggerating. But think about it, is any of the politicians are there for genuine doing good?
Countries should be run by warriors, scientists and engineers. There is no place for politicians.
The whole purpose of the politician makes no sense.
What they do? They lie, and decide for our future with their own interest in mind.
As for cutting welfare, there is too much going around. I am paying ridiculous amount of taxes for what I earn, and that is under "Social-democratic" government.
As far as communism goes, you have no idea what is the communism, you can read books, watch history channel, and still don't know what it is. Ideal communism is the utopia you see in Star Trek. That is what communism meant to be. Real communism is completely other thing, I grew up in it.
As for socialism -> cutting welfare is very socialistic, people should not have any excuses not to work. Remember under socialist-communist (two different things combined together) it was illegal not to work. You could go in jail for sitting on your arse. Population control is very socialistic too. China comes to mind.
As for iwi, thing, in my opinion the whole maori concept should be broken apart and forgotten. There are no real genetic maoris. There might be a culture, but that should not be more significant than chinese culture for example.
Maori party is illegal by definition as it is discrimination against the rest of population.
The whole special treatment for maori is discriminative to other ethnic minorities.
If maoris think they have been opressed, just look at Europe, the whole ethnic groups where almost wiped into extinction and no one gives them a better treatment.
In fact the region I come from had romans, tatar-mongol, russians, turks, russians, turks again, and russians constantly invading and killing off and no one gives a special treatment to descendants of the indigenous population.
I am opening a can of worms here, but I have lived long enough in NZ to see flaws in government here.
