SunLive must be slipping - or it happened while they were at lunch; Graeme Purches has had his brain stolen by aliens.
There has been an alien invasion, and a Trustpower executive has been abducted, and a surrogate who does not understand the most important thing that distinguishes civilised man from savages - ie property rights - has been left in his place.
I am seriously worried that Graeme Purches thinks [sic] that the 'Community” has money.
The TECT money he speaks of is not 'community money” - this is a fallacy - it actually belongs to individuals.
Mark Groos and co gave the rightful owners of this money the opportunity to say what they wished done with their property - ie donated to the community, or returned to them. Unfortunately this ill-conceived referendum also gave a bunch of looters the opportunity to say 'we want some of this money that belongs to others”, which took away the rights of a minority, proving that Purches believes minorities have no rights either.
I object to the idea of referendums, which are nothing more than a lolly scramble of other peoples property, but that aside, the only debacle we were subjected to (apart from the referendum itself) were the banal, mindless options on offer.
Purches looks at the $100,000 as a waste of 'Public” money (there is no such thing) when in fact it was merely giving the owners of this money the opportunity to protect their own private property. (abridged)
Graham Clark, Lower Kaimai.