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Financial System Oppresses Workers

Monday, 1 May 2006

Financial System Oppresses Workers

“May Day is International Workers’ Day: a day when we remember and recognise the tireless efforts of many to secure a fair deal for workers in New Zealand. It is a struggle which is destined to continue while we labour under a debt-based financial system which oppresses the poor and makes debt slaves of us all” said Democrats for social credit Leader, Stephnie de Ruyter.

“New Zealand’s low wage economy is the inevitable result of successive governments’ economic policies delivered via an out-dated financial system. Any small gains achieved by workers are quickly lost to increased petrol prices, bank interest rates and other costs. And the system is designed to work that way.

“Our financial system needs replacing with a 21st century solution which will guarantee a fair deal for workers and bosses alike. We must embrace a different way of managing our economy for the benefit of all New Zealander’s” Ms de Ruyter continued.

“To secure good wages and conditions for our work force and to free ourselves from the tyranny of debt slavery, we need a social credit economy. And we need it now” concluded Ms de Ruyter.

ENDS

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