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Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 5:12 pm, January 27th, 2025
Thanks Res Republica. I apologize for my assumption about your knowledge of China and I respect your opinion and the facts behind it. You sound very well placed to comment!Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 1:35 pm, January 27th, 2025
The other thing to consider and it is beginning become more evident is the reality of abundance. Profitability requires a level of scarcity and when this doesn't exist it has to be set by the market participants. What struck me about the energy crisis in ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 12:32 pm, January 27th, 2025
There is definitely some historical truth to what you are saying and democracy has many benefits and advantages over other systems. As Churchill said "Democracy is a terrible form of government but it's better than all the others." You have a very dark ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 12:20 pm, January 27th, 2025
Economists are not known for pithy quotes but this one isn't bad - "Sitting in a car in a traffic jam burning fossil fuel is good for GDP but you're wasting your time while breathing in toxic fumes." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T53vyra4uc The benefits ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 12:09 pm, January 27th, 2025
Interesting take KJT. You've reminded me to read Bill Mitchell's The Smith Family https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61255 I think that might be what he uses. But in general the household is understood to be constrained by a fixed income and has to control ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 11:12 am, January 27th, 2025
Lol. 'belt and road initiative' - 'belt and rode' sounds very inappropriate.Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:40 am, January 27th, 2025
Because NZ is a democracy and political parties have to follow the whim and mood of the electorate in order gain power. If the electorate shifts right then political parties - especially those close to the center - are forced to adapt their policies and ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:26 am, January 27th, 2025
In a democracy the economic direction is determined by voter perception and not facts or economic reality. Voter perception is malleable and fickle and this works against long term, strategic economic policies. In addition the understanding of how ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 11:46 am, January 20th, 2025
Gary Stephenson - What does Elon Musk want? Why does Elon Musk support migration for his own companies while supporting anti-immigration political parties around the world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPoXOwiEfrQWritten By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 12:56 pm, December 24th, 2024
We must not forget the electorate that chose this government and who - according to polling - despite all of the economic devastation and ongoing pain - are happy with this outcome and its continuation in 2025. A big thank you to my fellow New Zealanders ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 11:44 am, December 11th, 2024
Awesome description.Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 11:38 am, December 11th, 2024
The polled popularity of the coalition is a concern - I don't really understand it. If the government was a center left coalition presiding over a recession and rising unemployment the business sector and media would be relentless in their criticism. ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 11:43 am, December 3rd, 2024
https://reneweconomy.com.au/wa-plans-huge-switch-to-solar-and-storage-as-part-of-stunning-50gw-green-energy-boom/ Solar energy is now magnitudes cheaper than fossil fuel energy. This is not about saving the planet - this is pure economics.Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:56 am, September 27th, 2024
Unfortunately - you can run down a loved public health service and suffer no electoral consequences. The UK is your example - 14 years of the Conservatives and underfunding of the NHS went hand in glove. The key to achieving this is a major culture war ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 5:03 pm, September 26th, 2024
Voters made a choice about tax cuts and reducing the public sector - they chose both of those things consciously. If you deliberately lower the governments income by voting for a tax cut and spite against the state then guess what comes next - less public ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:16 am, September 24th, 2024
The UK Labour party only got 34% of the popular vote in the recent UK election and under FPTP they garnered a stonking majority in parliament. In NZ - which has proportional representation - that 34% would not go far. The Conservatives lost because Reform ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 12:35 pm, September 12th, 2024
This is all a political trap and we are being gamed - it is so obvious that the 6 month Treaty Bill process timed to end as referendum on Maori wards begins - is a setup. This is all about culture war noise that will divide and distract the electorate from ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 11:12 am, September 3rd, 2024
The problem, for the left, with tax as a policy solution for redistribution, is that it places the elected government at the behest of the private sector. It implies, that somehow, the state has no other financial instruments available other than economic ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 1:12 pm, August 30th, 2024
It's not something that I have ever heard discussed in NZ and that is the role of the private health insurance and hospital sector. Approximately 40% of the population has some form of private health insurance supporting (I'm guessing) a very profitable ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:24 am, August 27th, 2024
You can't be serious. Luxon is not building the port - the expectation is that private investors will build it. But surely that is a multi year project.Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:11 am, August 27th, 2024
Apparently Pakistan added 13% to their total energy output in one year using low cost solar panels and batteries from China. But this approach circumvents the need for expensive, slow to deliver energy sources with much greater long term profitability. ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:06 am, August 27th, 2024
The problem with roof solar is that it gives people free and limitless energy - there is no rentier extraction for on roof solar energy. NZs privatized and extremely profitable energy sector has to deliver energy in a form that enables rentier profits - ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:10 am, August 26th, 2024
Yes - we have proportional representation here in NZ. That's my point - rather than dismissing the Corbyn teams strategy and policy platform it might, instead, be something that provides insights into how you build a popular (as in number of votes) left ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 9:35 am, August 26th, 2024
A small correction: In the 2017 UK election Corbyns Labour party got 12,877,918 votes in total. In the 2019 election Corbyns Labour party got 10,269,051 votes in total. In the 2024 election Starmers Labour party got 9,708,716 votes. Corbyn created a very ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 11:51 am, August 22nd, 2024
The NZ economy is getting it's version of 'shock therapy' - a significant and rapid increase in un-employment and the collapse of smaller business in the tens of thousands - so far. The economic purpose of this deliberate approach is to create an ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 9:42 am, August 21st, 2024
I think National will play it by ear - if polling suggests there are electoral gains to be had rarking up culture ware issues then they will push ahead with the bill. There is also the economy to think about - if economic conditions in NZ continue to ...Written By: Champaign Socialist - Date published: 10:01 am, August 15th, 2024
The targeting of the unemployed is about sending a message to the employed - "pull your head in, no more wage increases for you if you're lucky enough to keep your job." This was best expressed by comedian George Carlin: The rich do none of the work and ...
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