Kiwisaver is nothing other than a subsidy for the sharemarket - and have you seen what that is doing lateky - it is a PONZI scheme - the sharemarket is being force fed with money from every working stiff's weekly pay packet to fund the excesses of the few ...
if anyone would want him [RL: Deleted. There's a difference between satire and silly] they are likely to be members of the national party. Slater is a gold mine for the left.
The ancient evil may not be so evil. There is a high probability of the global economy going cold turkey in the next three years (and us with it). It may be that the fates want this to occur on John Key's watch. Fundamentals like share value to earnings ...
dead right mcflock
CV a wise lord of any sort has a sens of moral responsibility. I wil bet that many a feudal lord couldn't give a toss about the proletariat -just look to the highland clearances. The day that the peasantry is no longer economically useful they are gone -...
I agree MS - point I was endeavouring to make is that many that are characterised as being "of the right" are actually of the centre but not of the left - the great majority of Kiwi's have both a social conscience and a belief in capitalism. The "over-...
Labour needs to stop thinking in terms of left and right. That is passe - it is the awful 19th century intellectualisation of class conflict. Labour needs to become the party of the 99%. It needs to look at what we need to have a flourishing Capitalist...
The present government is selling these "assets" to subsidise the share market. Roger Douglas threw our entire economy into turmoil because Muldoon used to subsidise farm production. At least farmers produce something useful and of value share markets ...
http://cluborlov.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-joy-of-national-default.html Orlov provides the answer Iceland did it and got on with life - the rest of us remain slaves In the long run there is no other way out other than Iceland's way the sooner it happens ...
That is a different rort again DTB Not so much a subsidy to Tiwai but to JK's mates who are playing that particular market -Tiwai is probably only a coincidental beneficiary. The Whole ETS is another exercise in delusional faith in the market place to ...
This article in the ODT during their stadium debate sums up the study http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/opinion/46073/why-future-doesn039t-need-stadiums There is also plenty of evidence that jobs in convention centres actually cost the economy as the gross ...
You are right xtasy but not just Our Current Foolish Leader has been guilty of this Helen was as bad. Possibly worse becasue she was so much more intelligent and focussed. Helen was a Statist - John a Corporatist - the family and community are seen as the...
Maybe a really courageous Labour Party could promise as an alternative to put the old Electricorp back together and manage the country's electricity supply as a single network providing power to the people. And it could put the old lines companies back ...
Labour and the Greens only need to say that they will not honour the "bonus" scheme if they are in power to stuff this latest stupid idea from our leader. Has anyone thought of the deeper reasons for the asset sales - the asset sales are merely a symptoms...
An Icon for the sheer sterility of his imagination
The Cycleway - his best (only) idea - followed by the RWC and it goes down hill from there
There is an address at the bottom of the terrace where a direct hit would result in even greater economic benefit and very little loss of amenity - it's been an eyesore for a long time.
Labour needs to be doing better than just crying down the National Party's stupid initiatives and fumble bumble and mumble. Labour needs to be presenting better ideas. Pointing out National's failures is easy showing some leadership is what the voter is ...
There is a deeper issue that has been the reason why good government and local government has always retained control of airports water supplies and so forth. water supplies have a value-in-use - the benefit of a glass of water and a functional value as a ...
most of the over employment in NZR and NZPost were not inherent empire building in the old Government Departments they were employment schemes by proxy established at the decree of Muldoon. By the time NZR was "sold" it was the only profitable publicly ...
Try the electricity commission on for size! Once the ECNZ did it all, the boss got paid a few hundred$k and we had off peak electricity and a bunch of engineers that could build power stations now we have a whole lots of villains playing mini-Enrons
He must love the RMA CV Think of all the private enterprise that has generated!
Resource consents for water take are freely traded in all regions. The only limit to a sale is whether the water can be used in the new location or facility without causing adverse environmental effects. The water price is often worth mor then the value ...
The OCR is, as I understand it, for funding the liquidity component of the banking system and is a minuscule element of the whole banking/money system, The OCR is meant to influence lending rates but is become less effective even at that. At its worst ...
I would be happy to help the cause RG
This could work too Mikesh - in many respects it is the same idea and is the logical next step - it is a different way of saying that government should take back the power to issue money from the banks - you identify the logical mechanism. Taxes are ...
I suspect they are slowly getting there - David Cunliffe in particular has made comments that appear to be looking in such new directions. David Shearer appears to have the personality type and life experiences that would allow him to think adaptively. ...
good points and if done properly RL it would result in a capital outflow that would cause our exchange rate to drop, the cost of imports to rise the domestic value of exports to increase and a return to a more broadly based economy where manufacturing ...
Odd that the Treasury is the only bunch of bureaucrats who have never been the object of governments desire to contract everything out - if they truly believed their own mantra in the market providing the best answers surely they would be out among the ...
Thanks DH I could do a book on this - can't cover everything in just one page - but maybe encouraged to wrote a few more in response to the comments here
Why not think it out rather than look for some one else doing it already - and no offence intended but this comment is a classic illustration of the kiwi problem - we are so pathetically self effacing and self doubting which is why we are conned so ...
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