Oh I'm a deplorable - please forgive my treachery. Silly me for being a free thinker that doesn't subscribe to your religious interpretation of what my "whakapapa" stood for. I could equally accuse you of high-jacking what my "whakapapa" stood for. How ...
Oh seriously FRO with your talk about the "master class" and the "struggle". I told you, I'm not an employer, so whatever your definition of the fictional "master class" is I don't fit the bill. You're doing exactly as I predicted - painting me as some ...
My question was how many actual health workers were in the demonstration today - you know, people who tend to work at a hospital. Obviously touched a sore point so i'll elaborate for you - a "union dinosaur" is typified by a muppet who is still fighting ...
I'd love to know how many health workers were there and how many were just your usual rabble, union dinosaurs and party members whipped up by David Clark being "relentlessly positive"...
I've been called out for much less around here.
I would say that voting against your own personal interests is a great thing. If you vote in the interests of the collective instead of purely for short-term personal gain then that is admirable. It's how I've always approached voting - what's good for the...
So how is it that we'll be in surplus this year?
Time to get rid of Democacy then. It's an outrage that voters are so biased!
Hmmm.. is this deemed acceptable language around here now? Or is it only if you have viewpoint that is "agreeable" with that of the echo chamber? Ref: Policy "What we’re not prepared to accept are pointless personal attacks, or tone or language that has ...
"Ah, blame the voter." Democracy can be so gosh-dang inconvenient!
"The problem is that most New Zealanders are dumb and venal" Yup, they're so stupid that they'll be fooled into voting for this reptilian child-eating kitten-killing Prime Minister for a third time. If only they were rational they'd vote for a 5-headed ...
Yep, Keynesianism, why not.... I mean: When countries around the world were under intense scrutiny in 2008 for the level of sovereign debt they held the best thing we could have done was to borrow more to stimulate aggregate demand... except rating ...
How silly of me... Well let's rewrite the books then - put your prices up and pump up production everyone because supply has nothing to do with demand.
Where's everyone gone? Must be bed time.
Cultist - yeah, you're right, worshiping at the alter of empirical research and peer reviewed academia is so irrational isn't it?
I didn't say it guarantees anything but it's done a fair bit better than anything else that's been put into practice.
"Hey shit for brains"... awfully personal don't you think - I mean I can take being called names, but, given you've said it a couple of times, I'm starting to develop a complex that I might have shit for brains. I thought you guys on the left were a caring...
Well, I know there are a few alternatives out there but I actually would kind of care that at least one of them guaranteed me: - Democratic freedoms; - A life above the bread line (I mean bread and water would be nice); - Opportunity for my children; and -...
Sorry I did forget those claims: - Corporations = EVIL & BAD & DEATH & ENVIRONMENTAL COLLAPSE. Fixed now. Don't want to labour the point but I'm not surprised all your mates "know" what it means. "Corporate systems of capitalism are systems of death and ...
Mate, this also might come as a surprise to you (don't get out etc, etc, etc)... I'll whisper it so no one else hears: The Standard is one big echo chamber, "everyone else here" just listens and agrees with "everyone else here"'s view of the world - that ...
Err... if not real estate, then what exactly do you think is the basis for people trading mortgage-backed securities??? Dreams of fairy dust? What was the asset backing that then flowed on to give people confidence to write billions of dollars in worthless...
My point, which you have been so good to highlight, is that the term "neoliberal" is nothing more than that... a label. It actually has no grounding in economic theory. It's just a dog-whistle term that the left uses to attach political meaning to their ...
Haha - full unemployment and no capitalism, the dream... just the small dead rat to swallow of being a SERIOUSLY LOW wage economy. Oh, and if the "socialist paradises" of North Korea and Venezuela who also don't need that pesky capitalism monster are ...
Seriously? For Cunliffe, and by proxy the NZ left in general, to deliver on giving the world to everyone and us all living in a permanent state of Zen he is clearly relying on riding a global growth wave that all the "useless" economists are predicting. ...
You mean the same "bullshit" concept of full employment in a "neoliberal" (whatever that meaningless term means) macroeconomic environment that results in increased inflationary pressures and hurting the most vulnerable in the economy in any case? I'm kind...
Little bit quiet here on the issue of Shane Taurima aren't we? Not so much wailing of a right-wing bias in the MSM now is there.
And what of cyclical and frictional unemployment - or are you not familiar with such terms? In fact it is cyclicality that Cunliffe is very much dependent upon to deliver this "promise". If he is to deliver on this prediction it will be very much dependent...
Because everyone should be able to afford a first home in Mt Vic / Roseneath.
Because everyone should be able to afford a first home in Mt Vic / Roseneath.
"Do feel free to go if you believe that." I might just do that and leave you at peace in your echo chamber.
That is not my argument and you know it - I am saying that signing the petition is no more of a commitment than registering. If anyone had to make a further commitment to your cause, be it in the form of time or a token donation the proportion would be far...
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