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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
There is a lot of framing at the moment that the current and future pressures on the economy are external only. A week or so ago both Luxon and Willis did special stand ups saying that any upcoming issues will not be their fault.
It's convenient for these two who have monstered the public and therefore the private sector to have someone and someone else to blame.
Today inflation rose and GDP forecasts plummeted but none of that is the government's fault, of course.
Labour needs to be very vocal about these numbers and the government's responsibility for them instead of being roped into making statements about Maori Party superannuation policy.
Yes Willis and Luxon never mentioned the East Cape and Auckland cyclones nor (especially) Covid when addressing economic issues at the last election. These hit the economy by many many billions.
But they were Labour's fault (sarc)
Robertson did a fine job.
Can Willis and Luxon talk about cyclone Lam that hit today? (or was it yesterday)
Nothing like the same scale from media reports, but Luxon has a tendency to exaggerate so who knows.
The scale seems to be quite similar. The response seems to be a great deal better though.
For reference:
Auckland Anniversary floods
Cyclone Gabrielle
While Cyclone Tam does continue to affect the country with East Cape still expecting very heavy rain into the night, the scale doesn't seem to be quite similar at all.
Of course being thick right wingers they'll cut even more government spending and deepen the problem,
Their excuses are sick.
They and the Reserve Bank deliberately crashed the economy especially Wellington area and Auckland with ruthless budget cuts and higher interest rates.
They don't control the whole economy but there's no evidence their plan is improving it. Their job is to protect us and they aren't.
Degenerate junkie goes all in on Lebensunwertesleben for autistic kids.
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"Autism destroys families, and more importantly, it destroys our greatest resource, which is our children. These are children who should not be suffering like this," Kennedy said. "These are kids who will never pay taxes, they'll never hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, they'll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted."
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-lays-new-studies-autism-shuts-diagnoses/story
weird how that link doesn't work. Try this
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rfk-jr-lays-new-studies-autism-shuts-diagnoses/story?id=120882735