Open Mike 22/10/2026

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   https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361049121/were-still-paying-crisis-wealthy-won-1980s

   Preaching to the converted , but we really do need to go back to high taxs , deprivitise power,free education, cheap housing, and fully funded public Healthcare that works.

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      An excellent analysis of the disease of neoliberalism.

      A couple of pertinent quotes from the article:

      The heart of the neoliberal project was to sever these claims to resources, and require people to pay for what previously had been theirs by right.

      This required the dismantling of the institutions that distributed resources: privatisation of the parts of the economy under the control of the state, destruction of the unions which maintained good wage growth, and the abolition of regulation that protected people from extortionate and opportunistic pricing.

      And:

      These are relatively small islands in the South Pacific, with a population smaller than the city of Sydney. The idea of truly competitive markets has always been more or less a joke.

      Finally:

      Privatisation, deregulation and austerity weren’t about efficiency, but about transferring resources from working people to the very wealthy, and winding back the clock on the egalitarian gains of the 20th century.

      The big question is – which party recognises the problem and has a solution? The Greens and TPM, but hardly Labour with their incrementalism!

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