Friday, June 17, 2005
nACTional Policies
David Farrar has posted some of National's policies. I was interested to see this under their welfare policy:
"Personal responsibility is a core National Party principle. People need to take responsibility for themselves and their children.
The National Party believes that, while the community should always be there as a backstop to help those who need it, for most people that help should be a temporary hand-up and not a permanent handout".
Sound familiar? ACT founded these principles and the hand-up not hand-out slogan. Very happy to see ACT policies and beliefs being introduced AGAIN. This is precisely why ACT should be reelected. It has the ideas and principles that every party is now adopting.
UPDATE: Their Treaty policy:
Complete historical Treaty of Waitangi grievance settlements by 2010.
"The Treaty deals with government, property rights, and citizenship, and where there has been a clear breach of property rights – where land has been stolen, for example – it is right that attempts to make amends should be made. National is committed to completing the settlement of historical grievances. We will ensure that the process is accelerated and brought to a conclusion. Claims must be lodged by the end of 2006, with grievances settled by 2010. We must put this behind us if all of us – and Maori in particular – are to stop looking backward and start moving forward."
Again, it was ACT who introduced "Full, Fair and Final Treaty settlements" in 1999 and we were called racist. It is now core thinking. Another reason to give ACT your party vote.
"Personal responsibility is a core National Party principle. People need to take responsibility for themselves and their children.
The National Party believes that, while the community should always be there as a backstop to help those who need it, for most people that help should be a temporary hand-up and not a permanent handout".
Sound familiar? ACT founded these principles and the hand-up not hand-out slogan. Very happy to see ACT policies and beliefs being introduced AGAIN. This is precisely why ACT should be reelected. It has the ideas and principles that every party is now adopting.
UPDATE: Their Treaty policy:
Complete historical Treaty of Waitangi grievance settlements by 2010.
"The Treaty deals with government, property rights, and citizenship, and where there has been a clear breach of property rights – where land has been stolen, for example – it is right that attempts to make amends should be made. National is committed to completing the settlement of historical grievances. We will ensure that the process is accelerated and brought to a conclusion. Claims must be lodged by the end of 2006, with grievances settled by 2010. We must put this behind us if all of us – and Maori in particular – are to stop looking backward and start moving forward."
Again, it was ACT who introduced "Full, Fair and Final Treaty settlements" in 1999 and we were called racist. It is now core thinking. Another reason to give ACT your party vote.
