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Out of the (economic) storm comes a tall handsome man…

By Dr Peter Manglethwaite | 13 Oct, 2008

John Key was annoyed that Helen and Cullen didn’t consult him on the plan to insure savings.
But one only has to read Milton’s Paradise Lost to figure out why they didn’t want him in on the gig.

“What if the breath that kindl’d those grim fires
Awak’d should blow them into sevenfold rage
And plunge us in the Flames? or from above
Should intermitted vengeance Arme again
His red right hand to plague us? what if all
Her stores were op’n'd, and this Firmament
Of Hell should spout her Cataracts of Fire,
Impendent horrors, threatning hideous fall
One day upon our heads”

- Milton, Paradise Lost

Reinterpretation for present day

“What if the thinking that nurtured this economic crisis
Awak’d should continue in downward spirals
And plunge us into bankruptcy? or from above
Should we let neo-liberal refomers at our economy again
The invisible hand to rob us? what if all
Regulation was deregulated and this chaos
Of free market capitalism should spout her fountains of inequity,
Forthcoming horrors, threatning hideous fall
Very shortly upon our wallets”

- Manglethwaite, New Zealand Lost