Wednesday, 8 March 2017

From the mid
1980s until the late 1990s the one certainty about superannuation policy in New
Zealand was its uncertainty. Every government played around with it, to the
detriment not just of superannuitants of the time, but also of those
approaching retirement and hoping to be able to plan their futures with some
certainty. National promised to repeal Labour’s infamous 1984 surcharge, only
to replace it with something just as draconian in 1991. That was gradually
watered down during the 1990s, and a multiparty accord established, which Labour
then walked out of when it had succeeded in taking superannuation off the
political agenda and Labour found it no longer had a weapon to beat the
government with. Then National reduced the relativity of the rate of
superannuation to the average ordinary-time wage, which was subsequently
overturned byHow a Psychic Stole Millions of Dollars from an Oregon Timber Heir Rachel Lee had her daughter pretend to be British and fake a pregnancy.

 -- intro: Rachel Lee appeared to be living a middle-class life off of her earnings as a psychic, but when a detective noticed a Ferrari parked outside of her Oregon psychic shop, authorities grew suspicious.

What investigators, and the Oregon timber heir being targeted, eventually discovered was that Lee and her accomplices were in on a decade-long con job together and had stolen approximately $15 million.

Ralph Raines Jr., the heir to the Raines Tree Farm fortune and pictured here with Lee's daughter, met Lee when the California native opened her psychic shop in Oregon. Raines lived on his family's douglas fir tree farm with