Members of Leftlink list will you please participate in this forum stacked with extreme greedies ( corporate libertarians) from both NZ and the US, and designed to formulate/sell psuedo policy to introduce charity to replace welfare, and workfare slavery to replace jobs. Useful sites for quick information, and stats, for the debate include Liberal Resurgent http://www.scruz.net/~kangaroo/tenets.htm http://www.scruz.net/~kangaroo/LiberalFAQ.htm#Backglobalwarming and links. Here is your chance to really get stuck into some of the biggest propagndists of the corporate libertarian scene. Take it while its on offer. ACT Welfare Forum Goes On-Line Over Easter Friday, 2 April 1999, 1:18 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand http://forum.act.org.nz/ ACT will this Sunday launch a Welfare Forum on the Internet to encourage further debate on the current welfare system and its future. ACT Social Welfare Spokesman Dr Muriel Newman and ACT Leader Hon Richard Prebble are both contributing papers to the forum along with other contributors from New Zealand and overseas. Muriel Newman said today that Roger Kerr of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, Father Robert Siroco of the Acton Institute in Michigan, Patrick F. Fagan a FitzGerald Fellow in Family and Culture Studies at the Heritage Foundation in Washington and Bruce Logan, Director of the New Zealand Education and Development Foundation are all contributing to the month long forum. "The issue of welfare and its future direction is an issue for the people of New Zealand to debate. ACT is very pleased to lead that debate. For too long political paralysis and the politicians fear of tackling this difficult issue has seen the problem of welfare dependency in this country grow unchecked. "This debate is not about 'beneficiary bashing' as our political opponents try to claim. It is about getting better outcomes for the New Zealanders in genuine need of help and for the hard working New Zealanders who are made to pay more and more for a welfare system that is not working. "ACT has had the courage to confront and offer fresh, new ideas to the serious problems facing New Zealand's welfare system. New Zealanders have responded extremely positively to ACT's initiative in raising these issues for debate. Because of ACT a national debate on welfare and its future is underway. No other Party has had the courage to lead this debate. "New Zealanders and Internet users from around the world will be able to contribute to the debate over the next four weeks. They will find the conference at: http://forum.act.org.nz/ "The ACT on-line welfare conference will canvass a wide range of issues from 'children having children', to international welfare reform successes, to the importance of the family as the stable building block of society. The conference contributors and all those who participate in the conference will debate how we can better help people who are dependent on a benefit to become self reliant and build a better life for their family than the State can," said Muriel Newman. -- For MAI-not (un)subscription information, posting guidelines and links to other MAI sites please see http://mai.flora.org/ Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
