Daily review 01/06/2021

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  2. greywarshark 2
    1 June 2021 at 8:40 pm

    I've a grievance. When there is a smorgasbord certain men who think they are deserving, don't take their plate to the table, they bring the plates of the best food to their table to share amongst their clan. There should be a law against this discrimination of people who follow the social rules. And by the way they are usually white men, who have never been taught about living and sharing in a community.

  3. greywarshark 3
    1 June 2021 at 8:44 pm

    Alcohol – how many people in the community have had their lives wrecked or upset by this addiction which can be masked as liking to socialise. It is very costly in money, and eats into a person's drive and inner strength and personal morality. And the government enables it – brings them lots of taxes and some of the richest people in NZ had families that started their wellbeing with selling, making alcohol as a business.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018797913/hospital-eds-overwhelmed-by-alcohol-and-other-drug-related-cases

    Dr Adrian Kerner's letter to Justice Minister Kris Faafoi, obtained by Checkpoint, says Auckland's emergency rooms are overwhelmed by patients showing up with alcohol and drug problems.

    It also warns of people in their 20s and 30s who are alcohol dependent and showing signs of organ damage.

    Meanwhile, data provided under the Official Information Act shows the problem is costing the taxpayer hundreds of millions of dollars.

    • Tricledrown 3.1
      2 June 2021 at 11:49 am

      A $6 billion a year cost for the damage to our economy along with tobacco $6 billion then gambling another $6 billion.

      $18 billion of addictions if we got rid of our addictions our economic situation would be far healthier and those people affected by these diseases would be better off as well.

      • greywarshark 3.1.1
        2 June 2021 at 11:59 am

        Yes our addictions drag us down, sap our vitality. Reminds me – must give up chocolate biscuits. I've given up tv so don't see the world exclusively through highly-coloured, often rose-tinted glasses.

        TV is another perilous addiction. It has turned us against our real world which increasingly has us living in houses (if we are lucky) that are carbon-copies of each other coloured grey and black. But hey let's keep watching our tvs – there is all the colour you will never see in the world except for fleeting sunsets and firestorms. Or feeling a spurious connection with nature while we sit at home, or plan a trip up the hills in our four wheel drive using a riverbed as a roadway.

  4. NZSage 4
    2 June 2021 at 12:38 pm

    There is clearly something in the DNA of the National Party members that make so many of them deeply flawed human beings.

    https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300322828/former-national-candidate-jake-bezzant-leaves-party-as-serious-allegations-emerge

  5. Tricledrown 5
    2 June 2021 at 2:37 pm

    Looks as if like attracts like so many National candidates and former MPs have been found to be up to no good not many charged but if they were Maori MP's it would be a different story.the news media would have hounded and vilified any Maori MP and kept reminding every one as well.

    Selfish individuals who won't take responsibility for their actions typical for a party that promotes personal responsibility.

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