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Decision-making dilemma
Who makes decisions and who pays? Commissioner John Robertson raised the question that the newly elected will have to decide who pays for future expenditure.

The current policy of the district amounts to this: a poor family living in a garage and with a modern composting toilet that avoids any pollution pays about $250 each year to subsidise a flushing toilet for a multi-million dollar property owner at the waterfront in Mangawhai. Can this possibly be right and just? Everyone who stands for this election has to answer this question.

One lesson we have to learn from the EcoCare disaster is: Communities are much more effective at finding appropriate solutions to their own problems than professional politicians with their ‘experts’. Facilities like the Mangawhai Waste Water Treatment Plant need to be user-financed, owned and operated.

When we take the current policy for Mangawhai Waste Water as a model for the future we will only create an expensive bureaucratic playground for corporations, professional politicians, and ‘expert advisors’.

The annual payment of $250 that the Council currently imposes district-wide to bail out the Mangawhai debacle should be paid by those who created the debacle, not the current ratepayers, and especially not the ratepayers outside the area affected.

Until the costs are allocated where they should be, let’s be honest and call this $250 by their correct name: A Bad Management Fee (BMF), or a Corruption Fee (CF) and generate public awareness that this disastrous policy must be reversed.

Christian Simon
Mangawhai

 
Destruction of democracy
The evolution of Western society has been based upon the principle of democracy – the wishes of the majority based upon the greatest good for the greater number. Now a subversive doctrine is undermining that freedom. It is called political correctness.

Political correctness is a system wherein minority groups are glorified, with consequent favourable legislation enforced that is often to the detriment of the majority. Therein lies the traitor in our midst, the poison that is destroying the freedom for which so many have fought and died.

Our public education system has been infiltrated with a “gender neutral” programme, actually encouraging children to display lesbian, homosexual or transvestite behaviour and banishing any references to boy/girl male/female identification.

Anti-smacking regulations have led to a generation of unruly, out-of-control youngsters who know that they have more legal rights than their parents.

Pregnant teenage girls can be spirited away from classes to have an abortion without parents even having the right to know.

An entire school can be re-organised around the concept of special needs for one disadvantaged pupil, again disrupting the basic principle of democracy. The welfare of the majority of children must not be compromised just to accommodate one “different” child. There are other alternatives.

Then we have the minority group “Maori are special” proponents. What a load of cobblers to even suggest that someone who is perhaps 63/64ths pakeha and 1/64th part Maori should receive privileged treatment above all others because of a remote connection to a race that now exists in name only.

The greatest good for the greater number may not be the perfect ideology but I have yet to hear of a better one.

Make no mistake, the end goal of political correctness is the destruction of democracy.

Mitch Morgan
Kaipara

 
 

 
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