One of the persistant, well financed, propaganda memes, is the right wings "fiscal responsibility". In reality, statistics over time show anything but! But. Repeat bullshit often enough...
A narrative to persuade the gullable. Like you! An example is perfectly normal time limited funding, which NACT is also doing as we speak, characterised as "fiscal cliffs".
Why did I know you wouldn't get the irony.
The headline for Kāinga Ora should read. "National reacts with shock when they find house building, to replace the ones they flogged off, costs money!"
Rubbish. Take the partisan blinkers off. Government measures under Covid left us better off than comparable countries. And improving by most measures, including the ones you quote. We can see Nationals engineered recession biting right now. Real business ...
No surprise that decades of neo-Liberal mis management has stuffed NZ. This lot doing more of the same, in spades, will inevitably make it even worse. I am not even taking satisfaction in"I told you so" because the consequences for so many will be dire. ...
Like NACT borrowing 15 billion for tax cuts for housing scalpers?
Both the Nats and ACT are committed to reducing NZ's net emissions. Another satirist. Governments that are "committed to reducing" something, normally refrain from removing policies that reduce it!
Charter schools are just another example of this Governments. "if it doesn't work, we need more of it". Of course it works fine, however, to transfer our money and asserts into private hands. Which is the goal. Opinion | The Federal Government Has Poured ...
Right wing debate. You think if you.... "Repeat nonsence often enough, it becomes true"?
Yes. I'm sure the pressure on staff to meet bullshit KPI's and fudge assessments, is less under the public system.
I feel considerably more sympathy for people on the minimum wage, Yeah sure. As I said, crocodile tears. No right wing propagandist, like you, really gives a flying fuck about "the poor" who will suffer disproportionately from the costs of lack of ...
This is just a beach head. The ultimate goal is tax subsidised private for-profit schools. The same rhetoric and funders have supported the private takeover, that destroyed the US public education system.
She says one result of the switch was that NCEA and University Entrance results went backwards, from being among the top in Te Taitokerau. Yes. Funny that. When they had to meet the same assessment criteria as State schools, they couldn't get the same ...
Consented / likely Consented Wind Farms (windenergy.org.nz) Note 1550 MW. The benefits mainly stem from substituting costly fuels for free renewable resources and the savings from not having to buy carbon credits.
They already pay. Through the nose, like all of us, to pay for the botched electricity "reforms". Why don't you ask why diesal trucks only pay a fraction of their true costs?
Hydrogen will not replace the present diesal trucks. They will be replaced however. Either by expensive necessity in the not so distant future. Or we decide on sensible options within the next couple of decades.
A feature of Neo-Liberal right wing accountancy. An emphasis on the cost of doing or having something, especially state provision, combined with a congenital inability to see the cost of NOT having it. They apply this to power infrastructure as much as ...
Yes. It is notable the amount of already consented more sustainable power projects that havn't progressed, because power companies have monetary incentives to keep generation capacity down to keep prices high. It is obvious that consents are not the road ...
Funny that NACTIOD's are all for inherited "property rights", unless it is for Māori!
There is no battery option currently for long haul trucks. There is, for trucks from ports or rail depots to customers. Where batteries will work fine. Long haul trucking being both environmental and economically efficient, the alternatives are electrified...
Individual solar panels is likely an inefficient and expensive route to more sustainable power. Economies of scale apply just as much to solar, wind and hydro as they do to gas, coal and diesel plants.
It smooths out demand and supply from wind and solar generation in future. Not hydro. And a lot cheaper long term than using batteries. Not a crazy idea at all. Except in the minds of those who want us to rely on paying billions to oil companies, every ...
The grid will cope fine. If EV chargers are controlled to low demand times, as we do now with many hot water cylinders and other loads.
Very hard to justify nuclear fission, when even the most optimistic projections make it 2 to 4 times more expensive per MWh than wind or solar. https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1W909I/#:~:text=It%20said%20that%20reactor%20construction%20times%20can%...
This is why we need storage options such as lake Onslow. Which the troglodyte vandals have now canned. I wonder what the bribe from the oil companies was? Betcha it is a lot less than Trump is asking? Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses ...
The shortage of energy! is because privatised power has locked in incentives to keep generating capacity low with associated power shortages to keep prices and profits high. Nothing to do with Greens or even the last Labour Government. Who were attempting ...
Oh. Yes there is. Battery Electric Vs Hydrogen Fuel Cell: Efficiency Comparison (insideevs.com) Hydrogen instead of batteries for land transport, makes no sense.
I am not surprised Genter lost her cool. Well researched effort over years, faced with fatuous ignorance coupled with blatent lying. Which does way more damage to our parliament and country than someone briefly losing their composure in the face of it. Why...
National is following a well worn track. Enact your least popular and most socially damaging policies as soon as possible. In the hope that National voters, who obviously have the long term memory of a goldfish, have forgotten them by the next election. ...
No. It is not. That "rural ratepayers subsidise urban services they don't use", is an often used agreement by rural businesses to try and get their rates bill reduced. To contribute less! to public services. Ironically, in reality the subsidy goes in the ...
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