4 Billion Dollars

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10509183

Just in case you missed it I have linked to Brian Gaynors article in the Herald.

This Labour government has wasted $4 Billion - yes that is FOUR BILLION - of taxpayers money on our railways, and in the process have increased the wealth of Fay, Richwhite and many others offshore.

This is your money - you know the money you need to buy your child that much needed pair of shoes, or some decent food for your family, or to save for your retirement. Money to employ enough nurses and open enough operating rooms so that your relatives can get their heart operations done before it's too late, or your hips replaced so that you can be pain free, or your cataracts removed so that you can see properly. Or they could build classrooms so that your children are not educated in a shipping container.

Another one to think about

SA duo jailed for life

Two South Africans who overstayed their British visas were jailed for life on Friday for the murders of two men strangled during a series of violent muggings.

Gabriel Bhengu (27), and Jabu Mbowane (26), will be deported after serving life sentences.

Judge John Goldring said at a sentencing hearing at Wolverhampton Crown Court in central England that evidence had clearly shown that Bhengu and Mbowane had carefully selected vulnerable targets.

"You selected your victims and each was in some way vulnerable," the judge told the two men.

"Some were women walking home from the shop laden with bags. One was an older man smoking his cigar at the end of an evening."

"Two — those whom you murdered — were on their way back home from the pub. They, you knew, were affected by drink."

The defendants, who live in Wolverhampton, admitted mugging Andrew Owen and Neil Williams, but denied they intended to cause either man serious harm.

The judge said he was convinced the pattern of violence in each offence had been the same.

"You, Bhengu, the taller and stronger man, grabbed the victim from behind about the neck in a headlock and squeezed," he said.

"You, Mbowane, stole the victims' belongings, in some cases by rifling through a pocket or pockets of the victim."

Bhengu and Mbowane had entered Britain legally, but their visas had expired by the time they carried out the killings and five other robberies in April last year.

They were convicted of murder and robbery Thursday following a five-week trial. A life sentence normally lasts around 15 years.

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/917397.htm


Now where are all those British activists who were at the forefront of the anti-apartheid movement?

Could it just be that because these two thugs happen to be black that there is such a deafening silence?

I can assure you that if they were white South Africans this would be pasted all over the British press - just as any white on black violence is highlighted as 'racism still rife in SA' whilst black on white violence is just 'violent SA'.

Something to think about

2008 - Year of the Dead Rat

Labour is having to swallow yet another dead rat as their ETS (emissions trading scheme) is being exposed for what it is - yet another way to extract money from the tax payer.

NZPA reports -

The Government could take up to $80 billion in windfall gains due to the climate change emissions trading scheme (ETS), Solid Energy chief executive Don Elder told MPs today.

Mr Elder said the bill was not only about climate change, but was also the most far-reaching taxation legislation since the 1980s.

He said no one had seemed to consider the possibility that even if pollution targets were met, billions of dollars would end up in the Government’s coffers.

Then the Maori party climbs in on their retreat from their 'flagship' policy -

The Government can’t go round promising or telling people one thing and then backing down because it’s election year. You either genuinely believe this needs to happen and you’ve got a strategy to address the issues around climate change, or you haven’t.

All in all not a good week for Labour as Tim (that idiot Michael) wastes our money on his railway buyout - and makes us the laughing stock of Australian business, employment figures plummet and the average kiwi struggles to make ends meet.