Democracy in the Doldrums 2019

Posted 7th April 2019 to the Otago Daily Times Newspaper Dunedin NZ

History looks back at previous attempts to forge empires out of peoples of different cultures with different perspectives and ways of living with he lure of protection and progress  where eventually every one becomes big happy supportive family.
Sadly after a few years of bad management progressive Ideas are squashed and micromanagement of citizens kicks in and the empire gets unstuck then dog eat dog corruption sets in as the end gets closer.

Has anyone checked on our own progress? I wonder when I hear kiwi voters saying they vote for the party that gives them the most, has our education system not taught them civics ? 

New Zealand Tourism Investment Returns

Posted 20th July 2018 to the Dominion Post Newspaper Wellington NZ

We just sold a tourism business at a loss because no regular New Zealanders could afford to buy it and Investors wont touch anything with less than an 8.5 Percent Return... 
Maybe England's Jeremy Corbyn is onto something with Government Money and help for small cooperatives. Everybody needs a job and sometimes there are no investors who want to come to the party. If they don’t, it ends up costing the tax payer millions to patch things up.
This Investment Gap is clearly a flaw in our thinking that is causing pain.
Helen Clark used her thinking to raise the Third world living standards from her time in the UN by NOT putting a investment bar in the way of progress.. 

New Zealand's New Coalition Family 2017

Posted 20th October 2017 to the Southland Times Newspaper NZ

Here is hoping New Zealand is back on track to have inclusive politics shortly and again show others how a good democracy can work

NZ has in the past been a test kitchen for political Ideals and I hope we can again lead the way in the 21st century.

The People of Earth are needing to see faith in human society and civilisation as there is a feeling that our elite seem to be fabricating a
death cult game hell bent on sparking some kind of global Armageddon by enabling  a un-lawful leader (who feels like that German Pilot who wanted to fly his Airliner into a Mountain).
All because they can not bear any sort of compromise in any form.

It all boils down to the winner takes it all vs we all share the winnings  and we all know where Trump stands on the game of winning... He WILL make us sick of it.
Let’s NOT play with Donnie .