Douglas the author on attack
PA Wellington The former Minister of Finance, Mr Roger Douglas, has tried to distance himself from the so-called “new Right” in a book looking at the Government’s economic reforms.
“The new Right thinks that if you are poor it is basically your own fault,” Mr Douglas writes in the book. “They believe that the State does not make as good a use of its money as it could.” Mr Douglas says the Government should provide opportunities for people at all levels — “the alternative is beggars in the street and the rich living behind barbed wire.”
The book, “Rogemomics: Reshaping New Zealand’s Economy,” was launched in Wellington last evening by the New Centre for Indeq paJtent Studies. h
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