Daily review 17/12/2019

Written By: - Date published: 5:47 pm, December 17th, 2019 - 12 comments
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  1. McFlock 1
    17 December 2019 at 5:49 pm

    National doing their usual good job?

    • mac1 1.1
      17 December 2019 at 5:58 pm

      Very select committee? Another grumpy opposition game?

      • In Vino 1.1.1
        17 December 2019 at 6:40 pm

        I suspect that they are the ones who had to stay behind because they failed their spelling test.

        • mac1 1.1.1.1
          17 December 2019 at 9:56 pm

          I am watching Parliament right now and can report to the nation that Speaker Mallard has wrought great changes in the body politic. Both sides now know the difference between 'less' and 'fewer'.

          What I have written is far more interesting than to what I am listening!

          The Ombudsmen (Protection of Name) Amendment Bill, second reading.

          I can see why MPs want to absent themselves from this ah! riveting work in the House and its committees.

    • Stuart Munro. 1.2
      17 December 2019 at 9:33 pm

      Bipartisan policy making at its best. The Gnats know they have nothing to offer and stayed in bed.

  3. pat 3
    17 December 2019 at 7:38 pm

    Freudian slip?

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/118255194/rightwing-populists-look-poised-to-keep-winning

    When are you so confident of winning?….when you know the game is rigged perhaps

  6. joe90 6
    17 December 2019 at 10:12 pm

    Bridges and co seem determined to take us there, too.

    When I ask my European friends to describe us — Americans, Brits, who I’ll call Anglo-Americans in this essay — they shake their heads gently. And over and over, three themes emerge. They say we’re a little thoughtless. They say we’re selfish and arrogant. And they say that we’re cruel and brutal.

    I can’t help but think there’s more than a grain of truth. That they’re being kind. Anglo-American society is now the world’s preeminent example of willful self-destruction. It’s jaw-dropping folly and stupidity is breathtaking to the rest of the world.

    The hard truth is this. America and Britain aren’t just collapsing by the day…they aren’t even just choosing to collapse by the day. They’re entering a death spiral, from which there’s probably no return. Yes, really. Simple economics dictate that, just like they did for the Soviet Union — and I’ll come to them.

    [..]

    People who are battling for self-preservation can’t take care of anyone else. If I ask the average Brit or American to consider paying for their society’s healthcare, education, elderly care, childcare, increasingly, the answer is: LOL. In America, it always has been. Why is that? The reason couldn’t be simpler. People can’t even take care of themselves and their own. How can they take care of anyone else — let alone everyone else?

    The average person is living right at the edge. Not at the edge of the middle class dream and an even better one. But at the edge of poverty and destitution. They struggle to pay basic bills and never make ends meet. They can’t afford to educate their children, and retire, or retire and have healthcare, and so on. Let me say it again: the average person can’t take care of themselves and their own — so how can they take care of anyone else, let alone everyone else?

    https://eand.co/this-is-how-a-society-dies-35bdc3c0b854

    • ianmac 6.1
      18 December 2019 at 9:17 am

      But, but, but National has always been a party which applauds individual success and that if you are poor it is your own fault. "Get a job you lazy bugger, and work hard like me. I started with nothing and look at me now."

      Lower income tax will always investment to trickle down and be a boon to everyone. It is true I tell you.

    • soddenleaf 6.2
      18 December 2019 at 10:26 am

      For want of a horse the kingdom was lost. It's easy to kill the horse, rather than feed and house it. It's easy to do injustice to the poor than feed and house. But what started this decline, who rose, while we all fell. Who choose to buy into negativity… ..thirty plus years ago I asked a student why they read a Murdoch rag.

      People were told it was ok to destroy, who was telling them that. A new press class, who like their savanna animal spirit, would do physical excesses when the predators spiked them. They make out that they, the Press, are the Lions but really they are scared gazelles. It's no surprise so many had sexual problems that if exposed would end their careers, that's how they were controlled. You will note no executives were fired, no shareholders bankrupted, in the making of the destroyer press.

      And how do we change, turn off tune out. When facebook channels us to more of the same, when Time doesn't declare Trump as a sexual pervert in ever issue… …so it's not going to change, because people are to weak to choose not to destroy.