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The New Zealand "Revolution" Submitted by Lindsay Perigo on Fri, 2007-12-07 05:22.
I just saw on PC's blog that it was the 70th birthday of Sir Roger Douglas, architect of what some, including the late R. W. Bradford, founder of Liberty magazine, hailed as a "libertarian revolution." PC was kind enough to link to my address to IOS/TOC/KASSless in 1997, telling the truth about this "revolution." It's here. I urge everyone to take the time to print it out and read it in its entirety. The story it tells is an object lesson not just for Kiwis but the whole world. Linz
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Deborah
has a wonderfully entertaining article on Sir Roger's 70th in the Herald On Sunday.
I love the comment from Sir Robert Jones.... "Sir Robert used to call it the "fat student at university syndrome". In other words, some dull, know-it-all, overweight loser wanders into a room where other busybodies are forming a committee and suddenly finds for the first time in his or her life what it's like to be wanted. "Come in, welcome," say the fellow students. "You can be secretary and take the minutes."
LOL!! 
Oh so amusing!
Like what I was saying in my first post on this thread...Deborah says that Sir Roger was not perfect, did his best under the circumstances, and there was no one else.
Splendid article all SOLO-ists should take a moment to read.
"I create nothing. I own"
Yes
Peter perhaps had the 'Edited Highlights' on his weblog link...so...yes...fair point
(perhaps I went off slightly half cocked, I blame the merlot)
"I create nothing. I own"
Um
I mean, read the whole lot.
Oh
I did, yesterday...and sent Peter a private message, yesterday, saying I did not agree, too.
Or rather, I read the link Peter had on pc.blogspot.com
"I create nothing. I own"
Well, Eli
Why don't you actually read what I wrote/spoke? It always helps.
Yes
I must admit, Lindsay, to not being in agreement with you on this matter...(sue me in the 'World Court' if you want to)
I rather admire Roger Douglas, too.
He had a vision, stuck to his guns, made it acceptable for chaps to make vast profits, and was prepared to take on the brain damaged people in his own Party.
No one else...(if you assume that Bob Jones had no chance of winning in 1984)...intended to stand up and be counted, and change NZ for the better.
It is not widely understood at how beneficial to New Zealand and Capitalism was the floating of the dollar in 1985 and subsequent abolition of tarrifs.
I tried to explain it in the thread entitled "Oh The Idiocy" where I received a large number of private messages in response, but feel SOLO-ists still do not grasp the significance of those moves.
Roger Douglas was not perfect...(and indeed, the 8 month "Roger Douglas Era" as head of Brierley Investments was mindboggling in its incompetence)...but he was all we had, and should be given credit for what he did, rather than attacked for what he didn't do.
"I create nothing. I own"
Yes, I printed the link from
Yes, I printed the link from Peter's blog this morning. Douglas has always been one of my heroes, so I shall read with some trepidation.