NZ Centre for Political Research

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I have recently become a recipient of NZ Superannuation - thank you all very much everyone!!

However, I still want to work to supplement my super as I still have a mortgage and loans which need to be paid. Sure, I can earn just over $80 per week on normal taxing rates, but why or why can I not earn more without paying a crippling 70c in each dollar??

If I earn I pay tax, so I am no longer such a tax burden. I will not be able to earn a huge salary, but I have a teaching qualification together with a specialist dyslexia tutoring qualification and I would like to tutor in schools three times per week and help to make a difference, but will it actually earn me anything much after tax to pay my debts?? Many superannuitants will be more than happy to work and assist the countries coffers if you think this one through.

Please reconsider the thinking that has created this restriction.

My church used to be cleaned weekly by local the IHC. They approached us to do the work and we paid them a nominal fee.

The arrangment worked well for both partys and the IHC people loved the work and got to know lots of people.

When the law changed we had to give up using IHC workers as we could'nt afford to pay market rates.

A real shame as we know they got a lot out of it.

Thanks to the Labour government, IHC became the losers.

In support of Mr du Fresne, let me tell the story of a intelectually handicapped man who religiously showed up at this panel beaters every workday morn at 8am. He had a pair of overalls that sported his name, and a title of "subforeman", to which this man was extremely proud of.

When Labour brought in the minimum wage laws, they also hunted down many of these people "working" in businesses.

This man was given the job of keeping clean a patch of the workshop, to which he wore out several brooms a year. He also had the job of crossing the street and getting the men's smoko from an adjacent food shop.

But the Govt said he had to be paid, this led to the inevitable, and he was "laid off", an experience from which he has never recovered.

Also his mother used to get every week day morning free, this now no longer happens, and she is under a lot of stress nowadays.

This is thanks to the do-gooders and the left wing twits that have permeated our cociety, and society is worse off for it.

Craig

Have not received a reply from you to my e-mails, bit disappointing, however you guys appear to be polling so well at the moment I am sure that you feel that you are bullet proof. Check the questions that you are asking in your polling to see if you are really getting the right responses, you may receive a surprise. Anyway, I thought that I would drop you a note just to keep you up to speed.

Firstly, I know that you guys are hoping like mad that the ETS debacle will slowly sink down into the background and as such you can ‘move forward’ (standard speak for getting as far away from it as possible) from there. Sorry to disappoint you, but it is just as much in front of mind as ever before, in fact the people I speak with are only now just beginning to appreciate the stupidity of it. So, for less than 10% of our exports to the EU (they were cunning, they increased their own ETS allowances by 40% before they implemented it, thus little effect, I told you they would tilt the playing field in their favour, why you guys didn’t do something like that totally amazes me) you have placed shackles on the entire productive sector when 90% of our main trading partners will not have any ETS for at least the next couple of years, clever move.

So, a quick update on some of the effects of this. A shop in Akld has turned off its heating as the costs are becoming too high, they are in the tourist market and are finding it tough. Cold shop, fewer sales, leads to only one thing eventually, the shop will close down and its suppliers will lose another outlet, perfect timing for the RWC.

In addition, I see that Arandee in Akld has decided to close up shop and move to Singapore, smart move on their part, not that good for NZ though, technology leaving the country along with good minds and employment opportunities.

Let’s take a positive look at this though. The big speculative banks, Al Gore and other such institutions, are having a field day with carbon trading, what a gravy train. Traders are being paid $260,000 p.a. to shuffle paperwork around, heaven alone knows what the companies themselves are making in order to be able to pay them this money, regardless of that, it is as inflationary as anything, absolutely nothing produced but a cost/profit associated with it. Better than a war as nobody gets shot at!! (remember that Al Gore has bought himself another mansion that he will need to heat and illuminate, doing his bit for himself is Al!) As it has always been, just follow the money trail.

Still we will have saved the planet, won’t we? You are really, really sure about that aren’t you Nick and John?

Farmers in our side of the business have been hit again with low prices, so we have to push this further down the line to our workers. Prices for pruning have dropped 10% to 15%, assuming of course that the vineyard owner is still going to prune their vines. Some vineyards do not have supply contracts at all and I know of one case where they will only be pruning 20% of the vineyard, only 15 ha. So, the amount of money coming from the primary sector is going to drop, couple this with the de-leveraging effect of the money multiplier, let’s be conservative and say 5.5:1 (the US use 7:1) you can see that there are going to be some fun and games in your area and other farming electorates in the next few months as the flow on effects are felt. I think that in their case you will be looking at $46,500, which comes to $257,000 ($327,600) for the community. I wonder how many others there are in a similar situation, what will be the total de-leveraging amount that will come from all of them?

Take this through to the sheep and beef farmers and you are going to have exactly the same thing occurring. With these farmers being hit by $10,000 each by 2015, this means that there will $55,000 ($70,000) less going into the local community. I wonder how many such farmers there are in the Waipukurau area, 20, 30 or 40? If 40 that would mean $2,200,000 ($2,800,000) less being spent in the area, but hey the big speculative banks need to get paid and they really do not care about Waipuk, (does the NZ govt?). Work that through and you will see that the only people who will be able to farm in NZ will be foreign govt sponsored overseas corporations which I believe that JK is not all that keen on. It has the potential to make local farming communities die, the small NZ towns that people from overseas come to visit and enjoy, the extra income which helps the people to make ends meet.

I get a strong feeling that you guys in national don’t really care about them, they are not townies and besides they do not have the weight of votes that you need to stay in power do they. The fact that they bring in 65% of NZ’s income appears lost on you.

Enjoy the conference, you will notice that the charges have increased from last year, ETS fees you know.

Trevor

Letter to Attorney-General continued:

6. 'It's contempt of court to deny Chiefs' rights of sale and dignity. Some tribes accepted land back (IF returned): IF re-sold, it was 'second-hand' (see CONTRACTS law), several Chiefs gave-back money/goods if they changed their minds OR a wrong Chief sold, or if a settler exceeded limits).

7. Initiated Chiefs + priest-chiefs WERE 'the court'. But they ASKED FENTON for LAW classes, 1857. Village 'law schools' began. See Blue Book for settlers and chiefs.

By 1868 more than 20 judges/magistrates could be invited to teach. Some civil law: Urewera District Nastive Reserves Act, 1896-7 (TUHOE dedicated themselves to Queen + law). Townships, 1896-7; Maori Councils Act, 1900 (plus good, copied from SA's 1894 Glen Grey Act). Fisheries Act 1908. NZ is under ADMIRALTY laws - the 1835 flag and Red Ensign were used. (See UK Fisheries Act, 1868, the basic British Commonwealth with 45 GLOBAL, OPEN COURTS.

'The Red Duster' has been used by tribes or hapu, the Union Jack, top-left, and local name across 2 lower quarters, see 'TAKITIMU' (Google and Wikipaedia). Even Fullers and Sea Scouts use it (plus Capt. Cook's vessel - the model in Maritime Museum shows a tiny flag).

8. Report in MAORI and ENGLISH of Kohimarama Conference, July 9 (plus some arrivals)/10 August. Thomas Chan and I re-typed it from Maori Messenger for my Book Nine, 'Maori Chiefs Asked for Queen Victoria's Laws'.

I'd like a play-reading of it.

Tamihana Te Rauparaha said, "I desire that we (Maori) ratify this Treaty."

The Chiefs did (1863) with Pomare's baby Albert Victor (and Pomare), Queen Victoria's godson. Chiefs read the Treaty again, saying it is 'THE SECOND TREATY'.

9. Status of waters is vital. My tribe + others claimed illegally by 'using' Waitangi Tribunal with no civil law were given rivers, lakes, forests, farms, shares, police stations, courts &c. By common law, it would need acts of Parliament in the U.K. to allow a modern 'tribe' to overtake local sub-tribes and local foreshore and seabed. 'SOVEREIGNTY' doesn't pass to mixed-race families. By God and Nature, 'water runs with the land' except where lawfully channeled. Running water may be another standard..

10. (and word order is changed here. Also see Halsbury's annotated statutes re Fisheries, which Reid Elsvier graciously permitted me to photocopy for Book Eight, Treaty Series, 'The Common Law of Fisheries'.. - this and law for Foreshore and Seabed comes from ROMAN LAW; it became 'The Law of the Sea' at Westminster in London - used globally). MINERALS are part of SOVEREIGNTY, sold (and by my tribe) more than once e.g. Greenstone - Tribunal wasn't told but Tribunal is ill-informed. No civil law: oath, cross- examination, summons, and 'Assessors' (and again from Roman Law as 'asessores' for tribes in court). Common law allows the Crown to reward Maori and non-Maori fo Discovery and they may receive ROYALTIES.

11. NZ was blessed to mainly Christian buyers under the Queen and the UK Parliament. Public servants/M.P.s may take an oath to the Queen. Change it to The Queen, the People and NZ Charter - under the 'Treaty' ? (The Charter was Nov. 16, 1840, with Cl. 7 'in trust to the residents..'). (And Dr Claudia Orange said 'Hobson had no legal training' but he was one of the highest, Navy-trained lawyers, equal to a brigadier or general, able to hold court and keep The Queen's Regs.. Dr./Rev. Henry Williams was another lawyer, others too).

12. TRIBES/HAPU /families have no 'perpetual succession' : Municipal /local authorities must be TRUSTS. No 'breach of trust', no Public-private, no third-party contracts (Chch City Council and M.P./Government forming a shell company re Wigram, for my Ngai Tahu tribe), no third-party contracts, foreigners with dual citizenship taking more assets away, no joint ventures and no foreign loans or 'loans'.

13. Powers of TRIBAL TRUSTS are limited to borrowing, 1936 Maori Purposes Act, but it has to be for LOCAL purposes and funds must come from Government or authorised, so a company can't encourage ulawful, unneconomic adventures, then 'escheat' assets, as at Matauri Bay to pay for debts.

Yours faithfully,
Jean Jackson
Ngai Tahu.

I sometimes wonder if Brianne is a programed robot since nearly all of the replys are almost identical