So the Labour and the Greens want to create a single buyer of electricity for the whole country. Oh no, here we go again.
New Zealand needs more business-minded people to help create jobs and opportunities for others, not less, and central government needs to lead the way.
If the Labour/Green idea to buy all the power is put into place, what's that saying to New Zealanders?
‘Let central government make all the tough decisions in life on your behalf and you'll be fine.' What rot.
We need to wean ourselves off our ‘welfare/state government knows best' mentality. And the quicker the better, before it takes us all under.
The truth is welfare is failing us dismally. For the sick and the elderly I can live with, but for our young and the lazy it's a cancer.
I should know, I've got a brother who went from the DPB to a sickness benefit and hasn't done a day's work for wages in over 30 years.
He's never going contribute anything to himself, his family, his community or his nation.
He is essentially useless and is supported by a system that will reward his failures until the day he dies.
Not only can we as a nation not afford welfare for the young (look at Europe) but they themselves cannot afford it either.
Welfare for the young is a disease that effects hundreds of thousands of people in this nation.
It is not only failing them, but failing those who work and pay taxes to support them and is failing the nation internationally.
If we are to thrive and survive into the 21st Century we need more workers, not less. And the Labour/Green example this month of ‘more government by dummies' does not set us a good example.
We can all contribute something. I don't care if you've only got one leg, you can do something for someone at some point.
That's how we thrive, by everyone contributing something. By setting and being good examples for our kids and our grand kids.
And those good examples should start with good central government decision making.
No more lurching to the left please. Not for another 5 years at least.

Graeme Martin, Otumoetai.