Lol. Douglas came up with the idea of a universal benefit... ...no... ...the Romans did. Paying citizens a bread stipend.
The beach homes being washed away... ...sure the homes under a muddy hill,but wait! That's most of nz. Loose volcanic soils getting wet. The council thought its okay to let them rebuild ain't like mud prone slips aren't the norm. Our major highways cant be...
Dipton. Wasn't there a crisis? English paid back money he over claimed? Did be have a headache over where to live? Did not have to take in strangers to pay the rent English, but did have to pay back monies. Was English consider going on the game to make ...
Housing, drugs, water, rivers, teacher numbers, mines inspectors, chch school closures, tourism,infrastructure... ...the list of failure is indicative of a government that talks strong, but does little work. Housing them in motels! That would cost a ...
I do not agree with then notion that emergencies services will be put out saving home owners since its a slow erosion. Home owners do need to maximize their position and living in the home makes sense while using a payout to buy building land. But you know...
If paid out they might use the money to buyt lots of rocks. Which could exasperate erosion for others.
The solution is simple. It has to maximize freedom. Agree council/state were at error, that residents who never heard of climate change were fools. Let them stay, pay them half, for the error, half of half from central govt. Then let them maximize... ...oh...
ACTs role is for wealthy losers to get a chance to holdback change. Consider the maxim, nothing ventured nothing gained. Act routinely venture negatives, policy vacuum designed to muddy debate, stymie govt via ignoring existing regulation and demand its ...
Greens need to target farmer vote. Lots of Farmers get it. So getwellknow farmers to a photo op with greens. You can party vote Green and vote nat in the constituency and since Nat's have done so little for waterways why not scare them. It's not like ...
New direction. Party vote Green. Let Labour soak up the constituencies. Split voting has been a strong theme for Nat act. And that's essentially what nZf are targeting. So imagine this for a moment, how silly it will look when peters picks up party votes ...
UK was never a full EU partner due to the pound existence. The EU mismanaged currency union ergo Greece. With Poland basically ignoring EU democracy and a number of E.Europe nation voting far right... ...sure the UK voter didnotvote out because of all that...
Its not the issue, sure it has value. The issue surely is recycling. Recycling should be a dirty word. By which I mean looking at the planet not as a resource but as our home where all we are has value. There is no waste as waste has its own cycle aka ...
Technically people who live here for thirty years get citizenship unless they are unfortunate in the timing of their application in having been out of the country more. And reapplied and got citizenship. Labour, Shane fellow got a Chinese businessman in. ...
Any truth to Seymour having a clue about economics? He believes that food retail is competitive having only two companies in the marketplace. He's a authoritarian, he apes all the rhetoric around libertarianism, free marketneo-lib but supports charter ...
Barcley will not be returned at the next election. He is gone. So the noise ain't about Basrcley. Its how a MP given previous tapes was so unaware of consequences. I mean how notable that a tape exposing the former PMs hypocrisy resulted in his demise,all ...
And that's why the best way to change the world is to stop eating Murdoch's product. He'll survive. We won't by continuing eating Trump ads manufactured solely to keep our attention.
Essentially the biological history of parasitical plagues is the same. They, or we, distort the ecology so significantly that we cause our own extinction. Eating several Earths is considered by the great conservative herd to be a virtue, a success, a ...
Electing neolibs who don't do govt or regulation yet are put in charge of governing and inspecting... ...whose foolish? Tories get you killed. Slow in tower infernos or slowly toasting like a lobster with climate change.
Agreed. One point. Oil is a highly energy dense liquid fuel and it is reasonable while we have the infrastructure to find all reserves. Its about using the stuff slower not faster and faster. The asteroid analogy would be flipping it into a controlled ...
Building solar panels costs resources, it could be argued that Trumps move to decouple from Paris was to let the US compete with China. So Trump is either irrelevant as we are moving towards compliance or his ineptness is helping. Coz the way it looks is ...
Rubbish. Todd in order to win favor has gone in a timed fashion as English has to distract from the huge budget in health fiasco. As per usual get the bad news out all at once.
Self entitled landlord...??! People with mental health problems have been known to trash housing, invariably the slum landlord and the most deprived members of the community meet. THis is not eithers fault. Its simple a governing philosophy. The govts are ...
CAn someone avoid paying taxes by growing sheep they do not sell, hire contractors they do not pay in nz, and write off any costs to depreciation?
Given increasing regionism and nationalism over migration. And stories like https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jun/14/tax-evaders-exposed-why-super-rich-are-even-richer-than-we-thought Are the Arab countries looking to their own region for wealth ...
Explain something for me. A owner of a sheep farm, say, grows sheep, exports them to themselves for no money, then slaughters and eats said sheep. What taxes would they pay, if any? Then they hire foreigners and pay them overseas? Does tax ever get paid or...
but wait. The wealthiest can service their loans, what's it matter a few peons go to the wall striking a deal that one accident and the bank forecloses. Why should only the wealthiest be able to service loans! Doesn't that remark strike you at all? Surely ...
Tories are twits. Tories protect the status quo, ergo not hard to see no, speak no, hear no evil. In good times twits are sufferable. But bad times, all the virtues that make a great twerp are inept in the face of change. This is why youth need to vote, as...
Brexit won! Tories had no plan! Tories overwhemly like trade, lower trade barriers, and could hold their noses at the sausage defns etc coz trade is good for them. And truth be told when May finalises the agreement nowt much will have changed. May did not ...
I think media, Tories, did not consider what would happen to the ukip vote, assuming the Tories would win it.
Indeed. Kensington and Chelsea did not go Lab because the left won the argument but Tory voter anger angst for brexit. LAbour got some cut though where its alternate was clear and directed at current woes. Take the crap water announcement. Labour says it ...
Market forces take effect on an ideology. A use by date exists. Idealogy creates behaviours that amass waste, create reluctance to change, invite entrepreours to game, thus the potancy, force for good, orginial goals of the ideology is undermine. So how ...
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