Free trade just costs too much
(13 April 2008)
“The new trade deal with China may promise a bonanza for a few exporters, but will be paid for by the average Kiwi worker,” says Katherine Ransom, Vice President of Democrats for social credit (DSC).

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Student debt milestone or millstone?
(10 March 2008)
“New Zealand’s student loan scheme debt is rapidly approaching another milestone: the $10 billion mark. New ways of supporting students must be explored as a matter of urgency” said Stephnie de Ruyter, DSC Leader.

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Post-natal care cuts revive old discredited plans
(07 March 2008)
Recent controversy over new mothers being ejected from hospital with indecent haste after giving birth are a classic example of old discredited schemes being revived by cost-cutting corporate health management, according to the Democrats for Social Credit.

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Time for West Coast DHB Chair & Vice Chair to be Appointed from Elected Members
(02 November 2007)
Government’s practice of appointing the West Coast DHB chair and vice chair should be changed to making those appointments from elected board members who live here, according to board member-elect David Tranter. An editorial in Wednesday’s Christchurch Press spells out why DHB chairs should be appointed from elected board members, not government’s appointees.

Living in Dreamland
(May 2008 )
The book “What Your Accountant Doesn’t Tell You’, by New Zealand accountant Fiona Clayton-Law, gives tips on tax avoidance, and advocates getting into networking. She says this has created more millionaires in America, Australia and New Zealand than anything else. She also advocates share trading, not investment, but property speculation, options and other derivatives.

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How to Make Millions
(April 2008 )
It’s simple, it’s legal, it’s respectable….. All you need is a bank! Almost everybody worries about money, but very few people know where it really comes from. Most people are so confused by economic jargon, they don’t even know they’re being ripped off.

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Collapse?
(March 2008 )
In 1929, in the boom before the Great Crash, Irving Fisher reckoned that market forces would force a correction, though not collapse. Countless other ‘experts’ in the sharemarket denied the possibility of financial meltdown.