Archive for May, 2010
The Bechdel Test
Written By: - Date published: 6:59 pm, May 23rd, 2010 - 46 comments
“The Bechdel test†requires a movie to pass three questions:
1) Does it have two or more women in it (who have names)?
2) Do they talk to one another?
3) Do they talk to one another about something other than a man?
This two minute video explains…
Guyon vs English
Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, May 23rd, 2010 - 52 comments
The frustration was palpable today as Guyon Espiner struggled in vain to get a single straight answer from Bill English, who was only prepared to twist, evade, and repeat lines: “GUYON Do you accept that for very high income earners, people on the sort of salary like your own of $276,000 a year,you gave those people money they simply did not need?
I can’t believe it’s not satire!
Written By: - Date published: 12:44 pm, May 23rd, 2010 - 94 comments
The other day, we had a satire guest post about ‘thank the rich day’. Michael Laws appears determined to out do us: “On Thursday, this Key/English administration decided to abandon the pretence that we are an egalitarian society, or that we should ever attempt to be so. The wealthy are the wealthy because they merit that status, was the prime minister’s underlying message.”
Has climate change been trumped?
Written By: - Date published: 10:11 am, May 23rd, 2010 - 32 comments
We are so used to hearing that climate change is the most important environmental issue of our time, that to hear that biodiversity may require more urgent attention made me sit up and pay attention. As reported in the Guardian…
Good news!
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 am, May 23rd, 2010 - 30 comments
It occurs to me that I’m always writing about bad news. Bloody Tories. Climate change. Oil spills. Financial collapses. Countries torn apart. It’s a depressing diet. Time for a change! How about a post about good news? Let’s give it a try.
Open mike 23/05/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 23rd, 2010 - 28 comments
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The Brash budget
Written By: - Date published: 2:46 pm, May 22nd, 2010 - 17 comments
Colin James makes a good point in his latest column which talks about the rightward shift this budget has created: Longer term, the Budget points to smaller government. Core spending is projected to fall from 35 per cent of GDP now to 28 per cent in the early 2020s. The last National leader to talk […]
Tory pundits’ tough words on Nats
Written By: - Date published: 2:11 pm, May 22nd, 2010 - 16 comments
John Armstrong looks at the typical John Key-style punt that lies behind the budget.
Meanwhile Tracey Watkins has calmed down after the excitement of seeing the size of her tax cut and is questioning why Key is so afraid of anything but tightly managed media appearances.
A kick in the guts for savers
Written By: - Date published: 12:08 pm, May 22nd, 2010 - 54 comments
My wife and I are retired. We worked hard, we lived frugally, and we have a nest egg to get us through. Now John’s mob have come along and taken part of that nest egg away from us. 5.9% inflation will eat up our savings. The same will happen to the nest eggs of retired people or young people saving to buy a house up and down this country. How does that reward saving?
The borrowed bunny
Written By: - Date published: 11:56 am, May 22nd, 2010 - 41 comments
It’s interesting to see how Irish’s ‘rabbit from a hat’ metaphor has taken off for describing this Budget. Some, like Tracey Watkins, are even using it positively. She needs to have a bit more of a think about what the rabbit from a hat is. The rabbit itself is nothing special. In fact, in this case it’s a borrowed bunny, despite the media’s tendency to portray tax cut as costless.
Domesticated
Written By: - Date published: 6:27 am, May 22nd, 2010 - 38 comments
Amongst all the budget reaction, there is a group of people that I don’t understand. They are the small group who are very well off, and who are nevertheless exulting about tax cuts that give them a few tens of dollars a week. Is your allegiance really purchased so cheaply?
Open mike 22/05/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 22nd, 2010 - 26 comments
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Nats preparing to sell assets, despite promises
Written By: - Date published: 4:18 pm, May 21st, 2010 - 109 comments
In 2008, Bill English was sprung secretly telling National members that he and Key would sell Kiwibank “‘eventually but not now”. After being caught out, English and Key categorically ruled out asset sales in the first term of a National government and said they would seek a mandate to make any sales in a second term.
Did the tax agenda deliver?
Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, May 21st, 2010 - 11 comments
In what it seems to think is an act of benevolence and economic genius, National has decided to borrow a pile of money, cut key public services, put up GST, and give me an extra $1000 a year. Will it make me work harder? Hell no. My partner and I are already paid plenty. If anything it will make us look at ways to reduce the amount we work.
NZ Sharemarket plummeting
Written By: - Date published: 12:52 pm, May 21st, 2010 - 9 comments
John Key’s “Don’t Be Jealous” Budget has done little to stop the European contagion from ravaging our sharemarket – at time of writing down 2.4% and still falling. The NZX company itself has dropped more than 5%, leading other significant losses by Fletcher Building, Sky City, and Contact Energy. Telecom is now down to an historic […]
Government Propaganda: Corrected
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 pm, May 21st, 2010 - 20 comments
There’s some useful scenarios to look at on the beehive’s tax site. They show how we all pay less tax, even after GST, and somehow the government also gets more tax. I love maths like that. But some of them seem to have something missing, so I thought I’d correct a couple of them…
Childcare costs ahead
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, May 21st, 2010 - 16 comments
Have you figured out what the Budget means for you? I’ve been looking at the media statements, reading the spin, deconstructing the commentators and trying to work out where it gets me as a parent with young children….
Treasury assesses Nats’ economic performance
Written By: - Date published: 10:45 am, May 21st, 2010 - 11 comments
What does Treasury make of National’s economic plan according to the Budget papers? Here’s the outlook for when National is kicked out of office at the end of 2011: Workers’ share of the economy will have fallen from an already miserable 43.6% to 41.5%. GDP per capita will be lower when National leaves office than when they entered it. Real wages will drop 2%.
On priorities
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, May 21st, 2010 - 45 comments
I think the saddest part of this budget is that the government will spend $70 million building more prisons while cutting $120 million from early childhood education. It kind of sums up this Key Government’s priorities don’t you think? They’re cutting taxes for the rich while they cut health and education spending. It’s our future they are cutting, so the rich can be richer in the short-term.
Open mike 21/05/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 21st, 2010 - 54 comments
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Budget punditry round-up spectacular!
Written By: - Date published: 11:57 pm, May 20th, 2010 - 62 comments
A round up of commentary from around the media on the Budget. Well, the media that’s in written form anyway. I’ll be damned if I’m doing any transcribing. Favourite lines, Vernon Small: “Bill English has written a one-dimensional tax-shuffle Budget”, John Armstrong: “Those looking for the bright ideas and initiatives to galvanise economic growth are going to be hugely disappointed”
…and your children’s children
Written By: - Date published: 8:09 pm, May 20th, 2010 - 70 comments
Let’s get this straight. Borrowing a billon dollars for tax cuts while cutting services is not centrist.
Even if tax cuts go to middle and low earners too.
Meanwhile the opposition is MIA.
A Budget for the rich, by the rich
Written By: - Date published: 2:24 pm, May 20th, 2010 - 141 comments
Telecom Paul Reynolds’ $290,000 ‘rich guy bonus’ alone is enough to hire six nurses or teachers. It’s enough to pay for 40,000 hours of early childhood education. It’s the added GST bill for some 400 typical Kiwi workers.
As expected this man, earning $7 million a year, has been given a tax break more than 200 times bigger than that of the average Kiwi worker.
Update: Key has spent up large in his irresponsible tax cuts for the rich. We’ll be paying for this for decades to come. What happened to the fiscal conservatives in the National Party?
Tax ‘swap’ needed to keep National MPs in NZ
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, May 20th, 2010 - 18 comments
Finance Minister Bill English today announced tax cuts worth $340,000 for National MPs on their Parliamentary salaries alone. “I’m very pleased we could announce this gift, ah, fair alteration of the tax system. There was a real danger that New Zealand could have lost the services of such valuable, highly-skilled workers as Paula Bennett, Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi, Paul Quinn, and Melissa Lee
Run of bad polls gets worse for Nats
Written By: - Date published: 10:47 am, May 20th, 2010 - 50 comments
The latest Roy Morgan poll makes for grim reading for the government ahead of what promsies to be an unpopular budget. Confidence in government is now bouncing between net 25% and 30% positive. That compares to 55% last October. Put that another way: 1 in 8 Kiwis have gone from having a postive view of this government to a negative one in the past half year, and it’s showing up in the party’s numbers.
The courage of his convictions
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, May 20th, 2010 - 56 comments
Hone Harawira does not want to vote for the ‘don’t be jealous’ budget and he doesn’t think the Maori Party will be standing true to its principles or supporters if it does. Harawira sought permission to vote against the Budget. Tariana Turia, who is awfully comfortable in the back of her Crown limo, refused. Let’s hope Harawira has the courage cross the floor anyway.
Close the loophole by knocking down the wall
Written By: - Date published: 8:43 am, May 20th, 2010 - 23 comments
Giving the rich a bucket of your money, is about keeping valuable people (who must be rich, by definition) in this country, or closing loopholes (by make the cheat automatic), or was it about boosting growth through trickle down (which is like helping a dehydrated man by giving water to someone with an already full bladder and hoping they piss on him)? Whatever, just don’t be jealous, OK?
Thai protests
Written By: - Date published: 6:59 am, May 20th, 2010 - 7 comments
The anti-government protests in Thailand are part of a complex internal struggle. Yesterday the main protest camp was cleared by government troops. But the protests are far from over.
Open mike 20/05/2010
Written By: - Date published: 6:00 am, May 20th, 2010 - 35 comments
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So what’s the rabbit?
Written By: - Date published: 8:32 pm, May 19th, 2010 - 53 comments
The Nats thought they could spin anything. Even more tax cuts for the rich.
But they were wrong.
What rabbit will they pull out of the fiscal hat now? And who will fall for the trick?
What to watch for
Written By: - Date published: 2:44 pm, May 19th, 2010 - 4 comments
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