BIG TIMES COMING

Press, 9 August 1980, Page 14

BIG TIMES COMING

By

WHIM WHAM

the question whether the country was going to “think big, or think small” . . . “New Zealand has, provided it develops , it, an energy-based prosperous future and that is what ‘think big’ is about in the New Zealand context.”—Mr Muldoon.

I’m thinking Big, don't bother Me With Trifles of this Kind — The Dividend you didn’t see, The Job you didn’t find — Try thinking Big. the Way I do! These -little Things won’t worry You. Don’t think of Taxes, Rates, or worse, Of next Week’s grocery Bill, Don’t count the Coppers in your Purse, Don’t cry into the Till — ’• Small-Matters’ We don’t occupy Our Minds with Them, Muldoon and I. Think of the undiscovered Oil, The Energy abundant. The undeveloped Coal, the Soil! What if your Skill’s redundant? The Future’s'rich, the Prospect’s bright, Think Big with me, and — She’ll be right! The Government -and I would like A few Years more to roll — Time for the Oil we’re going to strike? Prosperity’s our Goal — Let’s think of That! It’s far more pleasant Than thinking Small, about the Present.