DownToEarth.Kiwi Closing Due to Threats from National & Labour Parties & Big Business NZ Incorporated

It'd be nice to think we've added something these past years to improve the prosperity of NZ. We were the only economic commentary source that regularly pointed out how the huge fiscal expansion, and money printing program, of the Covid years would end in high inflation and subsequently economic stagnation. Before the Blog started, we urged National in the 2010's to sort out the nation's ailing infrastructure when it had the chance & provided a plan. We begged National & Labour many years ago to pre-empt the looming fiscal blow-outs on health-care and pensions due to the ageing population. Although offering a fully-costed solution to that challenge, with the Budgets completed by a former Finance Minister, both main parties threw it back in our faces and laughed it off. We pushed for a new Ministry of Regulation a long while ago - that would subject rules to the discipline of cost-benefit analysis - arguing hair-dressers would be a good place to start, which has been taken up.

We exposed the cosy inbred club made up of people promoted way beyond their abilities that is running NZ, both in the public and private spheres. In spite of the top classes in all of my children's schools having a majority of Asian students, there is not one Indian Member of Parliament representing the National Party and the only Asian Cabinet Minister, Melissa Lee, got shafted, demoted & replaced in the Media portfolio by Choir Boy Paul Goldsmith. She has much experience in media - he has none. Meritocracy does not exist in NZ, wherever you look. We exposed the links between the Big Banks, Supermarkets & Building Firms with our Minister of Finance and PM. It has all been too much for the establishment to bear.

National, Labour and Big Business NZ have begun to complain & threaten me at the highest levels about my writings. The game has become clear. Continue doing so and it will mean the end of your future in this country. DownToEarth.Kiwi has been told in no uncertain terms that for me, as principal writer, due to this commentary, I've been wiped for consideration from top public & private appointments. So good luck to NZ. Good luck to maintaining the status quo of the same old people, in the same old big jobs, who together with their same old mates have driven NZ into division and economic decline. As for me, taking a fresh perspective & offering different solutions to the tired old, failed approaches of the past - the ones our two main political parties & their buddies in corporate NZ promote to protect their territories - is something I no longer wish to do. It would be good for them to be required to wear their gang patches announcing to Kiwis who and what they truly represent, rather than hiding in shadows. A lack of imagination threatens our future. Good luck and good night.

DownToEarth.Kiwi labelled "bitter & twisted leftists", thereby achieving our non-partisan reporting aim, to the distaste of our National-Labour rulers.

This Blog has been frequently featured on Bassett Brash and Hide, as well as former ACT MP Muriel Newman's NZ Centre for Political Research. Many folks on the left of Kiwi politics dislike us, especially for calling Grant Robertson, now Vice Chancellor of Otago, "Worst Finance Minister Ever", and arguing he didn't deserve his current position. No government jobs will ever come my way from Labour. Yesterday we outed the current National Finance Minister for trying to take over the Reserve Bank of NZ of behalf of the Big Banks to get their Capital Requirements relaxed. So this is how National Party supporting KiwiBlog readers now characterize us: "Mr MacCulloch is getting a lot of air time on Newstalk lately. Comes across as a bitter and twisted lefty. Pity help his poor students". We are proud to be labelled a bitter, twisted lefty, and dumped by Bassett, Brash & Hide's Blog because one of its founders disliked an article we ran about historical abuse at Dilworth College. I've been told by National MPs no government jobs will come my way from that Party due to our reporting.

Which gets to the crux of the matter. The National and Labour Parties, in a combined effort, have together driven NZ into division and economic stagnation. Outing them is something we wear as a badge of honor. As for "pitying my poor students" with biased diatribes, last week ACT Leader Seymour explained his view on regulation to them, and in previous years ACT founder Sir Roger Douglas has debated his plans for more economic reform with them. We've also regularly had visits from Labour's David Parker, who outlined his problem with high inequality in NZ and how to address it, and run events on well-being economics with Geen Leader Swarbrick. Maybe National & Labour's leaders & supporters could focus on how to drive prosperity in NZ, rather than promoting their own vested interests via putting their energy into trying to socially and career-wise ruin (yes that's what they're doing) those of us who provide fresh ideas, debates and a clean-out of the old guard, with an even hand.