It really sounds like you guys are headed down the same rutted track that our little country was headed..We were really quite lucky that we had a change of government,cos another term of Red Helen and her bunch of tree hugging queer(take that any way you wish)mates,were dead set on turning NZ into a little Red community.. Biggest problem now,is turning everything around,which means real hard work,,and cap it off with the expense of the Christchurch eathquake rebuild etc,and trying to convince the lazy beggars who Helen told''you dont have to work'',that they DO have to work,cos taxpayers dont want to feed drones..Our current government is into its second term,,but we need a bit more time to make the country stronger.. I am still amazed that no one has ''Abraham Lincolned'' Obama yet.. All I can see,is that the current generation (and a lot of the older ones too)just want to sit around and hold out their hands for a freebie.. I keep remembering a certain famous quote..''Ask not what your country can do for you,but what you can do for your country''....Doesnt seem to apply any more,does it??