JHC
Chief assistant to the assistant chief
My little town is dying!
In 1984 our government (Labour) after doing many good things under PM David Lange decided to follow the advice of Roger Douglas Minister of finance, his reforms became known as Rogernomics.
My town had full employment and was a small but vibrant centre of the Farming community we had it all. A first rate Hospital with a nurses training school, a large goods depot for the Railway we were the main station between Wellington and Auckland and it employed hundreds of people, the main service centre for the P&T (post and telephone) system, I could go on and on but I think you will be familiar with the story.
To day ½ the shops are closed and some of the streets look/are dilapidated with graffiti and rubbish, at a guess we must have an unemployment rate of getting on for 50% our nearest hospital two and a half hours drive, the railway station barely functions and the goods sheds falling down. House values plummeted and still going down.
What has caused this??? Centralisation and following the Market every thing must make as much profit as possible and for good measure send all manufacturing to China, all those that loose their jobs can go on assistance a couple of dollars here and there it wont hurt the tax payers too much, plus everything belonging to the state (utilities) can be sold, then when it has been run into the ground (asset stripped) the state can buy it back again we dont want the investors to loose money the same applies to the Banks..
I bet this sounds familiar to most of you, I know from listening to the various radio stations (on www) that the same is happening all over the place. So is this a strategy to get the big boys richer and stuff the rest or just a bunch of no hoper's doing the only job they can get.
In 1984 our government (Labour) after doing many good things under PM David Lange decided to follow the advice of Roger Douglas Minister of finance, his reforms became known as Rogernomics.
My town had full employment and was a small but vibrant centre of the Farming community we had it all. A first rate Hospital with a nurses training school, a large goods depot for the Railway we were the main station between Wellington and Auckland and it employed hundreds of people, the main service centre for the P&T (post and telephone) system, I could go on and on but I think you will be familiar with the story.
To day ½ the shops are closed and some of the streets look/are dilapidated with graffiti and rubbish, at a guess we must have an unemployment rate of getting on for 50% our nearest hospital two and a half hours drive, the railway station barely functions and the goods sheds falling down. House values plummeted and still going down.
What has caused this??? Centralisation and following the Market every thing must make as much profit as possible and for good measure send all manufacturing to China, all those that loose their jobs can go on assistance a couple of dollars here and there it wont hurt the tax payers too much, plus everything belonging to the state (utilities) can be sold, then when it has been run into the ground (asset stripped) the state can buy it back again we dont want the investors to loose money the same applies to the Banks..
I bet this sounds familiar to most of you, I know from listening to the various radio stations (on www) that the same is happening all over the place. So is this a strategy to get the big boys richer and stuff the rest or just a bunch of no hoper's doing the only job they can get.