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Written By: KJT - Date published: 2:56 pm, February 12th, 2025
The privatisation of early childhood education is working as well as the other privatisations. Why is anyone surprised?Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:45 am, February 11th, 2025
Cargo cult. John Frum - WikipediaWritten By: KJT - Date published: 4:59 pm, February 10th, 2025
I think you missed the point. Undercutting landlords with State housing. Means that houses get cheaper. Ergo. More home ownership. By all means, have rent to own available for State houses.Written By: KJT - Date published: 4:24 pm, February 10th, 2025
Never rated Kiwi build. A particularly Neo-Liberal compromise. State House building, in numbers, which the Coalition of Cockups has effectively canned, would have both kept landlords honest and put much needed downwards pressure on house scalping.Written By: KJT - Date published: 4:12 pm, February 10th, 2025
Wind turbines get better ROI than solar with scale. Though may change with advances in solar. Solar Energy vs Wind Energy: Cost, Efficiency, Applicability, and Environmental Impact - NRG Clean Power Interesting large hot pools heating in the South Island, ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 3:57 pm, February 10th, 2025
Individual small solar panels, are a more expensive and inefficient solution than large solar and wind farms. There are always economies of scale. (Even coal/gas generation powering a large number of electric cars, is more energy efficient than individual ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:57 pm, February 9th, 2025
Belief in John Frum, is common with National Governments.Written By: KJT - Date published: 8:31 am, February 8th, 2025
Why is anyone surprised. Israel was founded on removing Palistinians, since 1948. This is just a continuation of the project. The last thing Israel wants is peace. It would stop the project!Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:52 pm, February 7th, 2025
Queensland cops! We used to joke that Bjelke-Petersons much touted "low crime rate" was because all the crims were in the police.Written By: KJT - Date published: 11:31 pm, February 6th, 2025
"What is the problem with inequality? Excessive inequality is poverty! What has been successful in getting the poor out of poverty is measures to reduce inequality, such as transfer payments. You only have to play monopoly, to understand how the "market" ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 11:13 pm, February 6th, 2025
Professionals already pay much higher tax rates in Oz. Doesn't stop us from moving over there. Businesses, and individuals profiting from the New Zealand economy cannot easily shift their businesses. Rentiers can. But then they have to sell their assets in ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 8:03 pm, February 6th, 2025
In fact all Western countries had their periods of greatest growth and prosperity when they had their highest taxes on wealth. And the greatest share of the economy by the Government. Scandinavian countries until very recently. Though now also getting ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:52 pm, February 6th, 2025
You think?Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:50 pm, February 6th, 2025
Agree. Totally nuts.Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:44 pm, February 6th, 2025
Why is that relevant?Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:40 pm, February 6th, 2025
You need to get your information from a greater variety of sources. In-equality, which rose sharply in the 80'S and 90's and never got better since in NZ, is, as Joseph Stiglitz, Ha Joon Chang and other credible economists, (not Neo-Liberal or extreme ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 1:05 pm, February 6th, 2025
You may have noted that NACT standards, curriculum, NCEA and other carryovers from the Key Government, continued under Labour. Unfortunately!Written By: KJT - Date published: 1:01 pm, February 6th, 2025
State-integrated schools rarely 'pick ad choose' pupils What planet are you on?Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:47 am, February 6th, 2025
Chris Bishop gave further gifts to developers and landlords at the expense of the housing poor. Govt to sell billions of dollars worth of state housing land Bishop detailed plans to add a net 145 new homes this year before capping the state housing stock ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:27 am, February 6th, 2025
that children at state-integrated schools, regularly out-perform their decile peers at state schools. The results, in reality, are rather mixed. But once you add family income as a variable. No! State integrated schools and charter schools in NZ do not ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:09 am, February 6th, 2025
Just witness the long tail of children who are reaching secondary school as functionally illiterate Yes. Just note the long tail reaching secondary school illiterate. Who were at primary during the last National Governments "unfortunate experiment" in ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 5:45 am, February 6th, 2025
1984 to 90 was Rogernomics. When Labour was hijacked by ACTIODS. The Richardson/Bolger recession was 1991. Just like this lot. One year to crash the economy. Though, to be fair, that time the foundations of that recession was started by the Rogernomes. BTW ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:52 pm, February 5th, 2025
ECAN didn't make the decisions Key and Co wanted, in regard to unlimited water pollution by dairy farming etc. So. He sacked them. An abuse of power and contempt for Democratically elected councillors.Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:23 pm, February 4th, 2025
"Competent white men" looking rather rare at present. Certainly in the USA, they are having trouble finding any.Written By: KJT - Date published: 6:26 pm, February 4th, 2025
Well. I went from not reading to over 14 reading level in less than a year. This was with reading recovery in a State school in the 60's. It was using phonics, by the way. Because good teachers have always changed their approach to suit the individual ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:29 am, February 3rd, 2025
The Coalition of Cockups, plan for our health system. Most health insurance covers birth control — but hers cost more than $14,000 - Alternet.org Easy to see why. Someone will make billions.Written By: KJT - Date published: 7:44 pm, February 1st, 2025
Bing Videos Biggs Dickus?Written By: KJT - Date published: 10:02 pm, January 31st, 2025
Isn't Trump a DEI hire. Mentally deficient Narcissist?Written By: KJT - Date published: 4:56 am, January 30th, 2025
The point is that the internal economy within a family, if the family chooses to have a "means of exchange" within the family is not constrained by the outside economy. If they can't spend it outside the family then how much "money" they introduce is ...Written By: KJT - Date published: 12:46 pm, January 27th, 2025
A Chinese workmate who has lived and worked in the USA and China, said that, "In China you can change the policy but not the Government. In the USA the Government, but not the policies". Noting in China there is an "increasing proportion of middle class, ...
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