ACT's Pledge Card

ACT has just released their 2008 election pledge card They take the cake with the largest pledge card ever seen, not to mention the impressive list of reforms.

I recieved the following email from the ACT Party...

New Zealand's biggest pledge card, containing the juiciest election bribe ever.

The ACT Party promises that if you give us your party vote and we hold the balance of power after the election, we'll create an economy that gives the average New Zealand wage earner an EXTRA $500 A WEEK - enough to outperform Australia and bring our children home.

How's that for a bribe? Don't believe we can deliver? Then click here and see a pledge card with a difference. A detailed plan to do just that.

Nearly all of the policies we propose are regarded as international best practice. Others will be after we've pioneered them!

Not hard right. Dead right.

These policies will give us the growth we need, so we can afford things like lifesaving breast cancer drugs that countries like Greece can now afford, but we can't.

After fifteen years of gutless governments:

• The average New Zealand worker is now $450 a week poorer than the average Australian worker.
• If we were a state of Australia, we'd be the poorest - $100 a week poorer than Tasmania.
• If we were a state of the USA, we'd be 51st and last - $120 a week poorer than Mississippi.

Is it any wonder so many Kiwis with get-up-and-go have got up and gone?

One thing's for sure. Unless you stop voting for politicians who bribe you with short-term treats at the expense of policies that enrich you in the long run, you'll keep getting poorer and poorer.

John Key is not the key.
Roger Douglas is.

National leader John Key can see that Labour's policies are hurting you. But he needs Labour's voters to make him prime minister. So he won't change them.

He's copying Australian PM Kevin Rudd's strategy of saying 'me too' to the present government's policies. But can you spot the difference?

That's right. Rudd said 'me too' to policies that have made Australia richer. Key's saying 'me too' to policies that are making New Zealand poorer!

There's only one way to save New Zealand. Only one way to bring our children home.

And that's to make sure the ACT Party gets enough votes to hold the balance of power and demand that Sir Roger Douglas gets back his old job of Minister of Finance.

Who would you trust to manage New Zealand's $175 billion economy in a crisis?

• Michael Cullen – who's squandered the best global conditions of a generation to make us poorer than Greece?
• Bill English – who did nothing much the last time he was Minister of Finance, and is proudly promising to do nothing much again?
• Sir Roger Douglas – the finance minister who transformed New Zealand from a Soviet-style basket case under National to one of the freest and most admired economies in the world?

In 1984, Sir Roger Douglas had the guts to do what was right for this country when it needed strong leadership.

Well, we need that leadership again. Click here to keep reading to find out how you can make it happen with a party vote for ACT.

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Don't be too sure that this election, Kiwi voters will not make good use of the MMP voting system. I think we could see some of the minor parties (other than NZ First, United Future and some others not even worth mentioning), taking a larger role than expected.