#2 - M. L Kedzlie 2007-10-31 16:47 - (Reply)

I beg to differ. Those so called tired old faces had to clean up the countries balance sheet after the last Labour Government was reckless with tax payers money. A National Government which had to make hard choices about getting inflation down from 17% to under 3% so that New Zealanders would have a chance to economically prosper. Bill Birch sorted out the massive distortions in our nations balance sheet. A Government who put more New Zealanders into real productive jobs than the previous and currrent Labour Government. A Government which did not take more tax than it needed. A Government that did more for Maori hopes and apirations in the single year of 1995 with treaty claims under Jim Bolgers leadership that what Labour have done in the last eight years. Mistakes were made? Yes, all Governments do, but at least that pragmatism of National has the flexibility to learn from them unlike the dogmatic inflexibility of Labour. Under Labour things have got worse not better. New Zealand in the mid 1990's was doing better than Australia. Only a moronic clown would contend that today. Thats why New Zealanders are leaving in droves. They want a comfortable life, not an existence in a state of serfdom. If I remember the Helen Clark and Michael Cullen duo did not do that well in the 1996 Election and she was alot older and had been in parliament a lot longer than when a young Bill English tried out for the job. But, I dont want to dwell on the past - that is Labour's territory. They are the past in all its tenses as was revealed in its new Cabinet line up today. An old rotation policy? An old rotation policy using the injured list to replace the tired and retired list more like it.