Thread: Some useful statistics from Nicole McKee

Originally Posted by SF90

I think we need to remember this country is our home, there needs to be things in place that nourish us - our outdoors, our liberties, care for our health and beliefs, education, chosen way of life and so on.

There are those who will put a monetary value on those things and will sell what we take for granted, or will give it away. The liberties we take for granted will be limited, or removed - we are seeing that now.
We are a 'humanitarian' nation, we take in those who have been evicted from their own homes - and in doing so we are diluting our customary values as we conscientiously adopt or make way for theirs.
We also take in those who have money - we need their money to help our economy.
One day it will not be our country - it will be theirs.
We are not alone, that is happening across the world - we watch it on the television every day. The NZ our youth is growing up in is not the NZ I grew up in - our youth will never know the 'freedoms' I experienced - they are gone.
Taxing the wealthy will change fuck all, but educating the stupid might help.

We have lost the 'greater picture' in our pursuit of 'want' and greed - we want what everyone else has ......... and we are 'promised'.
Every election we are 'promised' - and I see the things I took for granted diminished or gone - because it had a value to someone.
And lately - it was to make a 'statement' to the world.

Our 'world future' doesn't look particularly promising - China wants Taiwan, Russia wants Ukraine and the whole of Europe is affected, and not in a good way. Our biggest trading partner is our biggest threat and we are making our troops 'combat ready'.

I'm bored now .....................

Eloquently put, Mr SF90...