On Tue, 02 Apr 1996,Ellen Dannin wrote: > When asked to account for the declines under deregulation, its proponents > gave the "dog-tag" explanation. That is, they would say that their > policies would finally succeed once the next bit of deregulation was > done. With success still eluding them, the last bit to be done is > deregulating the dog tags. Yes, and that is continuing. With the current failure of monetary policies to keep inflation under control without severely penalising exporters (it uses the exchange rate as a major weapon) the exporters are now calling for further action: further deregulation of local bodies and their services, privatising workers' Accident Compensation, tariff cuts, cuts in government charges (which given their previous enthusiasm for "user pays" means either further attacks on public service employees or privatisation) etc.... Bill /-------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Bill Rosenberg, Systems Manager, Centre for Computing and Biometrics, | | P. O. Box 84, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand. | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone:(64)(03)3252-811 Fax:(64)(03)3253-865 | \-------------------------------------------------------------------------/
