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To: NormsRevenge
Helen Clark, let us remember, is another gift to the world from the French.

When the French *unilaterally* destroyed a Greenpeace vesssel in New Zealand, it outraged voters and brought the Socialists to power.

Thanks again, guys.

13 posted on 04/02/2003 8:57:57 AM PST by denydenydeny
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To: denydenydeny
When the French unilaterally destroyed a Greenpeace vessel in New Zealand, it outraged voters and brought the Socialists to power.

Actually, the "socialists" - the fourth Labour Government were elected to power in 1984 - two years before the French blew up the Greenpeace boat. The so-called socialists actually were neo-liberals who followed Milton Friedman more than they did Karl Marx. Under the "socialists" New Zealand went from having one of the most regulated capitalist economies to one of the least. New Zealand in terms of market protectionism and subsidies to agriculture is one of the most free market economies in the world - much free than the United States, which still has high tariffs and huge subsidies for agricultural producers. Helen Clark's government has not changed this. She is a free-market liberal - she combines conservative economic policy with liberal social policy. New Zealand's economy is the fastest growing in the work and is the darling of monetarist economists.

Helen really needs to shut-up.
35 posted on 04/02/2003 9:32:11 AM PST by kiwiexpat
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