What a pathetic society we have become. Not a day goes by without some handwringing group, individual or bureaucrat pleading and begging to council/government to force others to pay for their wishlist.
Andrew von Dadelzen wants council to force people to pay for a big screen so people can watch rugby. Half the population of Tauranga winging to the council to provide people with a big screen TV, and the mayor flip flopping and giving the OK. Interfering busybodies like Larry Baldock intent on mob rule willing to dish out stolen ratepayers loot hand over fist for the common good. The editor of a local newspaper thinks it 'realistic” that your children be forced to undertake nanny states interpretation of oral and anal sex because 'some” parents are not capable of educating their children. The Labour party want to penalise the productive, and those prepared to invest and save for their own future.
Nobody getting off their backsides to do anything, apart from asking 'whats the council/government going to do about it.”
The people of this country have been infected with an awful disease and I see no cure in sight. All this hand wringing, begging and looting makes my skin crawl. What happened to the nation of proud, industrious, and inventive kiwis who got off their arses and did stuff because it needed doing? What is worse is these looters and bludgers have no idea they have been brainwashed by the child molesters of the mind, who have created a nation of mindless clones incapable of thinking (or doing) things for themselves, who are of the belief things can only be done under the control of national or Labour governments - both of whom are keen to perpetuate this destructive mindlessness.
Graham Clark, Lower Kaimai.