Australia spends more than $40 million a year on children's programs while NZ only spends $1 million and most of our children's programs are produced in the USA.
What's so great about the American culture? After all they are only 7th in the world for literacy, 27th in mathematics, 22nd in Science, 49th in life expectancy and 178th in infant mortality and that's without mentioning violence, corruption and attacking other countries for oil.
American television programs are polluting our society's values especially with our younger generation. NZ has many talented film production people here in NZ who are struggling to survive. It doesn't stack up.
New Zealand used to stand up for what was right, we were passionate in protecting our morale standards, and we waged war for poverty reasons not against poor people.
We sacrificed and we cared about our neighbours, we put our money where our mouths were, we reached for the stars through our no 8 wire philosophy and acted like winners. We aspired to learning and we didn't belittle it.
We had a great nation and were encouraged and able to do all these things and were led by leaders who cared about the people and those of future generations.
Wake up NZ we are being lead down the drain by a government who doesn't give a toss of who misses out or gets hurt.

Fred Stewart, Papamoa.