Friday 16 September 2011

STV or MMP or other

What others are on offer. Well vote for a change at this election and find out. Either we vote for a change as a nation and then have options or we vote to keep MMP.

So lets look at this rationally. All the people who have any idea of a new idea will vote for a change. This will include all the FPP and a long long long tail of other options.

How safe is the MMP system in light of the coalition of the willing voters for change?

So let us think about if we do vote and it comes up for change. In three years time we get to discuss the option while MMP runs of the next three years after the election. The options are for the curious.

Now why did New Zealand go from FFP to MMP in the first place.

A change in Crown Minerals allocation from "Time Priority", that has run for 150 years, to "Competitive Tender" has been indicated 30 August 2011 http://www.nzpam.govt.nz/cms/news/2011/block-offer-strategy

This puts up $5 trillion to $20 trillion of Crown Mineral assets recognised by the UN for competitive tender. That is $1 million to $5 million per every man, women, and child of New Zealand Citizen. But what does a citizen get for this. 1% royalty. $10,000 per person for eternity and the multi nations get options on $20 trillion. http://www.ngaitahu.iwi.nz/Ngai-Tahu-Whanui/Natural-Environment/Stocktake-of-Schedule-4-of-the-Crown-Minerals-Act-and-beyond.pdf (New Zealand above the water is 5% and 95% recognized by the UN is below the water. 20,000 years ago the sea level was 125 m below present and gold in the sea is twenty times that on land at least because heavy gold sinks to lowest levels)


Gold (in report estimated in 2008 March at 0.2 Trillion dollars on land)
In march 2007 January was USD$634 (0.68 exchange rate to NZ $932 per ounce) , 

2008 Oct USD732 (0.55 exchange rate to NZ $1330 per ounce), 

2011 Aug USD$1880 (0.81 exchange rate to NZ $2320 per ounce of gold)

So the figures for gold value in that report have increased in value 2.4 times in 4.5 years.

Just the gold value is $8 trillion (2.4 X 0.2 trillion X 20 for undersea) not counting coal and oil or rare earths (on land and in sea)


Table 1: Export value of main primary industries
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Sector

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Land area (sq km)

Export value 
($million per year)
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Export value 
($/ha per year)
Production forestry

Dairy


Horticulture, viticulture 





Mining
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18,000 


20,000 


1,100 




40
3,300

7,000 


2,200




700
1,833


3,500

20,000 




175,000
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Sources: Crown Minerals, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Statistics NZ.
http://www.minerals.co.nz/pdf/Natural_Resource_NZ_web.pdf

For example http://www.med.govt.nz/upload/71519/Assessment-of-the-Otahu-Ecological-Area.pdf

This wealth was effectively nationalized in a no mining mantra and we observed the gold price go up ten times in one decade. Good move on the part of the country but too tight with the cash has plunged the nation into debt and beggars the children while sitting upon the greatest wealth per person in the world.

What does MMP have to do with this. Well the vote could be called a distraction while $20 trillion dollars are passed over legal title to multi nationals. Once the silver is secured does the voting system really matter? FPP or MMP. Well yes because the resources have to be extracted. So a government that has FPP mandates can facilitate the extraction.

Rod Young

Ref. What I have been watching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kGri98uBmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1rw4SgOjcI&feature=related

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