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The High Cost of Cruising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAaWvVFERVA "Bruce in Bangkok" wrote in message ... On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:30:53 +1000, Herodotus wrote: For a country with the population of Singapore Island, we have not done badly. cheers Peter Oh, by the way Bruce, I simply cannot let the opportunity go by. We were also the first country in the world to have real democracy in that we were the first to have universal sufferage - men and women. But then I suppose the term 'democracy' needs to be defined here. Ours is mere electionaring and voting. It does not include big business putting their man in and then dictating foreign policy and thus reaping huge profits from their initial investment from the war industries and oil. You are right about NZer's migrating overseas. The 'brain drain' is the reason why the New Zealand Government pushed for Australia to put restrictions on NZ migration to Australia. Once we did not even need a passport and could enjoy all the benefits of Australia such as instant access to free Medicare, unemployment etc. Now we need a passport and have to wait for the rest though the visa is still largely automatic. One of the reasons why I took out Australian citizenship. regards Peter Sorry, but my home town was holding "Town Meetings" in 1600-something. A "Town Meeting" ,for the democratically challenged, is a meeting of all the town's peoples where past and future problems are thrashed out in public and a "Select Man" elected to run things for the next year. Very close th the Viking "Thing". Granted we had a king to take care of the larger problems but as far as local affairs were concerned most of the New England states had a primitive form of democracy (the kind where the people ARE listened to) since the earliest days. To the best of my knowledge Kiwi Land was unknown at that time, except to the folks who stick their tongue out in greeting who didn't really practice a modern form of democracy -- more a "Well, you lost, so into the pot you go" sort of government :-) Bruce-in-Bangkok (correct Address is bpaige125atgmaildotcom) |
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