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What has Labour done for the very poor?

Idiot / Savant

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Last month, Labour Party president Mike Williams revealed his party's key election strategy: a nationwide repeat of their 2005 South Auckland get out the vote program[http://election08.scoop.co.nz/election-08-looking-for-labours-laggards/]. In the Independent today, Chris Trotter points out the fatal flaw in that plan: the strong correlation between low socioeconomic

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  • Sam East says
    We often expect our government to be a super hero and rescue us from all our problems, but we need to face the fact that its not so easy to just change things. They do not have a wand that they can wave and utter some magic words. This is life. Reality. And reacting in this way doesn't solve anything either. Let me ask you something, what do we, who are forever complaining about what the government hasn't done, do? Do we even attempt to turn the world around? Do we attempt to even care for the "greatest in need"?! How many of us have huge savings? How many of us think of the needy when we're busy drinking our money down in beers? Now thats something to think about.
  • E Murph says
    What will national do for the poor? Probably nada
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