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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 15. July 9 1979

A Poem for the PM

A Poem for the PM

Dear Peter,

I thought this 'prayer' might be appropriate after the budgets gloomy heights.

Muldoon's Prayer

Muldoon is my shephard, I am in want
He maketh me to lie down in deep anxiety;
He leadeth me beside the still freezing works,
He disturbeth my sleep:
He leadest me the paths of destruction for his party's sake
Yea, though I walk through the valley of depression, I anticipate no recovery—
For he is with me,
His policies and diplomacies they frighten me.
He prepareth a reduction in my income
He anointeth my salary with taxes,
My expenses runneth over.
Surely unemployment and poverty will follow me
All the days of my life
And I will dwell in a state of Mortgage
For ever and ever.............

That was courtesy of, would you believe it, 1971 Pizzle-Rot, the Independent Lincoln College Journal of Agriculture. So even back then they could see the trouble that was coming through the Megalomaniac Muldoon. So let's keep up the fight for a better living and education.

By the way keep up the standard that Salient is setting. Having read this paper for nine years, it has remained the most informative of any student papers, and streaks ahead of the so called public 'independent' papers.

Yours,

Barry Weeber.

P.S. I am not M. Entel as S. Pastic Garth Thornton would think, or more likely gesticulate.

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