The Irony Of It All.

When David Lange was 'rogered' by that Rogernomics ... when egotism faded and he became aware he was but a facade hiding their manoeuverings ... where industry employing the 'unemployables' was deemed subsidising industry and they were 'turned out to pasture' to be supported by benefits, when the idealogues imposed their will and deemed a full-employment economy an artifice, when local industry was undermined and simultaneously the base production for export destroyed - one week Morrison Mowers received an export award and the next they did not exist - and the notion of such a deregulated economy, interest rate balanced/controlled, and a notion of 'trickle-down' to the less fortunate/educated. This had to work and work quickly, before the negative consequences of it became entrenched... it did not do so.

The irony is that this failed, deregulated, global economy, 'one world (global warming, single currency) claptrap,' has seen production go to the 'least cost third world minions' at immense social cost to our economy, and the cost is increasing ... that our own prime minister should receive accolades for this national demise and social desecration, and be placed on the world stage for her 'expertise' is indicative of the pathological nature of such an ideological malaise.

It was this ideology that destroyed the Apple and Pear Board because it was a monopoly and yet lauded the successes of Fonterra ... and Don Brash ... bless his simplistic self-serving little soul, 'can't keep his pants on' economic wizzardry, gets involved in a company trying to scoop some of the cream off a success story (Fonterra).

The true irony though is that those who talk authoritatively on this matter, treasury economists ('it doesn't matter as long as we can live in the manner to which we have become accustomed') and the social commentators like Lindsay Mitchell whose limited knowledge of history further 'deal' to the generational flotsam created by Roger Douglas and cohorts ... the increases in child abuse, sexual assaults, violent assaults, and murders, the sundry psychiatric disorders, that are the legacy of these idealogues ... those in society that were least able to cope, had least skills, least resources were thrown in to the wilderness - put in to a position where basic routines were meaningless ... 'up at eight, you can't be late for Mathew and Son and they wont wait ....' was a thing of the past as were the routines, motivation, self-respect, honesty, moderation of excess, implicit in this. Every one knows that time without direction 'is a killer,' metaphorically and increasingly, literally. Solo mums know that the most difficult time is when the kids are asleep ... when all you are left with is that which is in your head. Forced into a life in which dishonesty is advantageous, the unemployed nuclear family financially disadvantageous, the rewards from drugs manifold.

When I was but a young fella, I had the privelege of watching what occurred in a psychogeriatric ward. I saw nurses treating 'olde neuronally loose' people in a manner which they themselves felt they would like to be treated if in that condition/position .... they killed them, some within three weeks! They took away their 'meaning for life,' they took their routines, their self-respect, the ability to do for themselves ... they killed them ... and we do it today ... this Douglasian 'trickle down theory' has certainly resulted in a generationally transmitted or imposed social malaise that has mushroomed and now the victims are further persecuted.

Twenty seven teacher training providers relying on EFT points for maintaining funding have destroyed the education system ... thank you Roger, competition works ... you have to pass them to retain the funding. The real irony of this is when NZCER claim that 60% of the effect of student performance is attributable to famillies ... why do we need teachers, why should we send our kids to school?? How can parents be prosecuted for truancy under such circumstances?

The answer to all of the above is simple.

Govt considers denying bail for murder accused

Justice Minister Simon Power says he is seriously considering denying bail to prisoners facing murder charges.

This should also apply to those arraigned on sexual offences, particularly, rape ... as stress/ anxiety are often a precursor for such behaviour, and stress/anxiety are what are experienced given almost certain incarceration... and violent offending ... or indeed on any offending in which a lengthy prison sentence is inevitable ... for with concurrent sentencing, what happens in the interim is of little consequence.

Law review looks hard at culture of drinking

But why?

Why is it that we have a culture that places so much focus on excess, on that small percentage of folk that have so little self-regulation or regard for rules that any 'abusable' behaviour or substance will be 'abused,' and regulate all as a means of trying to contain it?