Daily review 04/03/2024

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, March 4th, 2024 - 18 comments
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  1. Ad 1
    4 March 2024 at 5:49 pm

    Holy jesus the new GPS.

    $3-$5 billion for a fix-pothole fund on state highways

    $1b cut from public transport

    15 new Roads of National Significance

    Massive increases to fuel tax after this term

    https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/gps-2024-over-20-billion-get-transport-back-track

    I'll wait for Matt at Greater Auckland to interrogate it in detail.

    Auckland will feel it the worst, but smaller projects like the Te Huia train are goneburger.

      • Kat 1.1.1
        4 March 2024 at 6:20 pm

        The 38% plus coalition clingons were too thick to realise they were voting for the real Muldoon Dancing Prancing Commie Cossacks………

        Suggest Labour come up with a sheriff of Nottingham political cartoon next election………..

      • SPC 1.1.2
        4 March 2024 at 6:30 pm

        The rising cost of the pothole fund because of trucks and nothing for coastal shipping.

        This relates to their end of a provision for emergency recovery – loss of regional roads and or rail.

        It has also axed funding for coastal shipping, which had been given up to $20 million a year. This funding was to encourage people to ship freight by water, rather than putting it on trucks. Labour reasoned this would take pressure off the roading network by having fewer trucks.

        Less development of public transport

        Funding for public transport has been cut dramatically. Labour planned to spend up to $3.2b on public transport infrastructure over the next three years. This has been slashed by nearly $1b.

        Less subsidy of cost of public transport

        The funding pot for council subsidies to public transport services has also been cut, which could result in councils having to hike fares. Labour had promised up to $2.8b in subsidies over the next three years. The new Government has cut this to $2.3b.

        National is in the pocket of the road transport trucking industry – which explains the undermining of the rail freight to ferry development.

    • SPC 1.2
      4 March 2024 at 6:23 pm

      Every new road damaged by trucks increases the size of the pothole fund – until they either limit the size of trucks, or reduce the number of roads they can use.

      • Kat 1.2.1
        4 March 2024 at 6:34 pm

        That will never happen as National represent Transport NZ and Fed Farmers……who love big trucks……hate rail……hate ferries….hate unions……hate anything not owned and run by the 'private sector'……

    • Muttonbird 1.3
      4 March 2024 at 6:41 pm

      Tax relief for all they said. Here's another 22 cents a litre, muppets.

      Joyce 2016: lets cut car regos by $50

      Brown 2024: lets increase car regos by $50

      Make up your minds, idiots.

      Wait for the GST announcement, everybody…

      • Kat 1.3.1
        4 March 2024 at 6:57 pm

        Perhaps Winnie will say these increases wont apply to gold card carriers…..

        Where is Winnie these days…….

    • I Feel Love 1.4
      4 March 2024 at 8:38 pm

      Thank goodness we avoided the "ute tax" whew…

      On a serious note that rego increase is gonna bite, fekkers.

    • roblogic 1.5
      5 March 2024 at 12:54 am

      Holy fuckballs. How the hell do we get $20b projects announced under urgency with zero debate, and other multi-billion projects cancelled (ferries, water, light rail) without a sneeze.

      What is the legal basis for the Governor General to dissolve Parliament?

      This heavy-handed no-debate coalition is unbelievable.

  2. gsays 2
    4 March 2024 at 7:17 pm

    Had tea with my Mum tonight and had the misfortune to see a 6 pm news bulletin.

    Charging us more for registration and then having some wanker from the trucking industry saying that drivers can't wait for the potholes to be filled. From memory (TBF recall might be dodgy as I wanted to throw things at the tele) not a single image of a truck let alone a 50 ton truck with a yellow H in the montage.

    This was after an item skating lightly over recent atrocities by the IDF visiting murder on Gaza civilians plus footage of 30,000 meals being dropped to a starving population of 1.5 million. The word famine was used to describe their plight.

    I've mentioned this before but it keeps coming back to me; "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

    Attributed to Krishnamurti.

    This was on the below link and may help shed light on part of the motivation for some who seek to free themselves from their strawman or personhood.

    "Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society?"

    https://kfoundation.org/it-is-no-measure-of-health-to-be-well-adjusted-to-a-profoundly-sick-society/

  3. Grey Area 3
    4 March 2024 at 7:21 pm

    School lunches: Health campaigners blast ‘extremely concerning’ David Seymour appointment

    FFS! When are we going to unite to fight back against these vindictive, malicious POSs. The time for talking is over. What are we going to do? They are taking our country apart piece by piece.

  4. SPC 4
    4 March 2024 at 7:25 pm

    Landlords before tenants, food in schools and school rebuilds for the duration of this government.

    Schools re-built in the 1999-2023 period were the lucky ones – unless they are in population growth areas, then …

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rolleston-college-not-consulted-on-completely-inappropriate-redesign-of-major-project/C6G6NGQETVFM5MFA3W5WW5HWXA/

    • tc 4.1
      5 March 2024 at 7:13 am

      Landlords and capital over fair pay, public transport, school lunches, collecting tax data, infrastructure (ferries) etc etc.

      Key and english did similar but kept it under the radar with spin and good old dirty politics when a distraction was required.

      This CofC has no subtlety and doesn't give a toss about optics unless it's Newstalk ZB audience i.e. their target market.

  5. joe90 5
    4 March 2024 at 8:57 pm

    The big boys are encouraged to punt on the economic ineptitude of this mob.

    .

    Dimitris Valatsas, the chief economist at US advisory firm Aurora Macro Strategy, said he found the presentations by NZ’s top policymakers to be “bizarre”.

    New Zealand has fallen deep into a per-capita recession and policymakers are likely to make it even worse with contractionary fiscal and monetary settings.

    That was the conclusion of one New York-based economic strategist attending Waikato University’s Economics Forum in Hamilton a few weeks ago.

    “New Zealand has ample fiscal space to support the economy and it seems bizarre to me that it is not being used — and even more bizarre that the Government feels there is a need to reduce spending right now,” he wrote in an email.

    In a later note to clients, he suggested shorting the NZ dollar and buying Government bonds.

    https://www.interest.co.nz/economy/126643/new-zealand-used-its-fiscal-firepower-while-economy-was-booming-and-will-now-cut

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