Food, housing, education and transport costs have increased. Easy access to affordable and timely health care remains a difficulty.
Why is it, on the one hand, Business, Local Bodies and Government can increase their cost structures and our budget burdens with ease, while on the other hand, they struggle to increase our incomes? Any increase in income or reduction in our rates or taxes are merely token gestures - they never catch-up and the gap between increasing prices and our purchasing power gets ever wider.
It is about time a political party discovered the answer!
No - it is about time a political party with the answer, was supported by New Zealanders to become the government!
Check out: http://www.democrats.org.nz/ and http://www.johnpemberton.co.nz/
New Zealand's Central Reserve Bank is STATE owned. Despite that, instead of being used for the benefit of its owners, the people of New Zealand, successive Governments have: Allowed the foreign-owned trading banks to create and issue nearly all of the nation's money supply and claim it as their own. Notes and coins make up less than three percent of the money in circulation. Ninety seven percent of our money supply is on loan to us at interest from those banks. Actively encouraged banks to charge "rental" for this money at some of the highest interest rates in the developed world. Used high interest rates as a blunt lever to control inflation, while agreeing to exclude the resultant costs from the Price Index, so that their cost-inflationary effects do not allow pensions and awards to compensate for these. Deliberately used interest rate fluctuations to maintain an unemployed "pool" of about four percent of the workforce in order to hold down wage rates. Fa
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