From: your.name@isp.com   
      
   "MDH"  wrote in message   
   news:Xns9DA9C89426CABmdhalbrookyahoocom@69.16.186.8...   
   > "Your Name"  wrote in   
   news:i0ll4n$mll$1@lust.ihug.co.nz:   
   > >   
   > > Not only that, but thanks to skyrocketing prices, etc.   
   >   
   > Greed and an unwillingness to live within ones means are more at fault   
   than   
   > prices.   
      
   For some people that is indeed true, but unfortunately not for everyone.   
      
   But prices are skyrocketing. Here in New Zealand the fools in Geovernment   
   have just started the silly ETS scam ...err, scheme which will raise prices,   
   and later in the year they're raising GST (Government Stupidity ....err,   
   Sales Tax). They've already increased ACC (basically accident insurance) and   
   the cost or licensing your vehicle, and the local council Rates tax for   
   house owners is always going up every chance they get (not to mention that   
   the four councils in Auckland city are being disbanded to become one   
   council, so the out-going ones are wasting piles of money on silly   
   unnecessary pet projects and "goodbye" parties for themsevles). The   
   Government did supposedly lower income tax rates, but of course it was only   
   really the greedy scum at the top who benefited the most ... all the while   
   lowering funding for schools, hospitals, and raising their own salaries.   
   X-(   
      
   New Zealand my look good in movies like Lord of the Rings, but believe me   
   it's fast becoming a fourth world country.  :-(   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)