Asset sales hysteria sweeps DomPost letters page
The xenophobes, hysterics and nutters are having a field-day at the moment on the issue of asset sales.
Adam cannot believe the amount of rubbish and blatant nonsense being peddled by Labour, some of the media and those peculiar people who live in a parallel universe. The virulent dislike of so many for business makes Adam wonder just who do they think provides the jobs for so many New Zealanders and pay taxes for the excessive welfare state.
This extract from a letter to the Editor of the DomPost is an excellent example of the tripe being offered up as a reasoned contribution to debate:-
‘Obviously the Government is planning to sell the majority of the shares overseas to either the Americans or the Chinese.
If power companies go to the Americans, how long will it be before some smart boy in Wall Street does an Enron and figures that more money can be made by not making electricity?
If the companies go to the Chinese, how long will it be before elements of the Red Army are sent to New Zealand in order to protect their asset? How long before coal or oil, destined to power a thermal station here is diverted to China?’
This bizarre piece of xenophobic rubbish and out and out mis-information was apparently penned by one Colin Wilson of Lower Hutt.
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Thanks for that quote. It just shows The low standard of debate on this issue.
@robertguyon
And yet John Key has kept his promise about asset sales, thereby generating a substantial amount of trust. I note that most of the hysteria is being generated by the political left, rather than the man in the street.
Don’t be too disappointed if National suffer only a little in the polls because of this.
When National’s polls remain high McDoctor, I won’t be surprised at all.
I do think however, that Key’s privatization plans will go the same way and by the same manner, as Brownlee’s mining plans went.
Not so sure
Yes, people are taking up their pens and making their thoughts public, such is their mistrust of John Key’s promises about asset sales.
Are you really surprised?
Robert, I am all for debate, but not when the matter is discussed at this level. There are valid arguments against, but to suggest the Red Army will arrive in NZ to protect their asset is crap and renders it easy to suggest those against the policy are nutters
His bedroom will be lined with aluminium foil!
Yes it’s pitiful. The ignorance which comes from people who eat Kellogs, use Colgate P soap. buy BP petrol and …………la la la. Don’t they know that Fonterra owns farms in China. that Infratil owns Prestwick, that Michael Hill etc etc. Where does the fixation with first privatisation and then overseas ownership come from? How has private ownership screwed up for these people? They seem happy to go to a doctor, a vet, a dentist, a car mechanic…etc. And now the latest looks like employers having to pay for some extra holidays. Is there no end to the ‘make someone else pay’ syndrome? So we can’t stand private ownership, let alone foreign ownership but we still look to employers (even foreign employers) to pay for our holidays. Jeepers!