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From: | "tennyson@caverock.net.nz" <tennyson@caverock.net.nz> |
Date: | Tue, 3 Dec 2002 23:01:48 +0000 |
Hi winner69, > > >I take it from your comments that you agreed with the government >bailing out AIR NZ for strategic reasons and for the good of the >country. > > Yes. The goverment was the lender of last resort. > > >With impending disasters at Tranzrail I take it that you will quite >happy for your taxes going to bail them out as well - because of the >strategic importance of the rail road. > > There is no need. Private shareholders and the banks have already agreed to a rescue package. > > >Would it end there? Why not renationalisation (Gareth's phrase) >Telecom? Or even relieve Fletcher Forests of their forests seeing >they don't want them? > > The government rescuing Air New Zealand was not a matter of principle as you imply. Given they had decided we needed a New Zealand controlled airline, it was the only option. SNOOPY --------------------------------- Message sent by Snoopy e-mail tennyson@caverock.net.nz on Pegasus Mail version 2.55 ---------------------------------- "You can tell me I'm wrong twice, but that still only makes me wrong once." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To remove yourself from this list, please use the form at http://www.sharechat.co.nz/chat/forum/
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