Muddling through question time

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1. DJL 1

   29 September 2011 at 7:53 am

   My plan is to have a little catfood for dinner each night, so that when its time for me to retire, I”l have an aquired taste for it.
   • Akldnut 1.1

     29 September 2011 at 8:18 am

     LMAO good start to the morning
   • pollywog 1.2

     29 September 2011 at 8:31 am

     …by the time you retire all the cats will probably have been eaten..
     • Tigger 1.2.1

       29 September 2011 at 8:42 am

       You can afford catfood? Luxury!
       • ghostwhowalksnz 1.2.1.1

         29 September 2011 at 1:03 pm

         Best to use the cat food to attract the cats and then….
2. Peter 2

   29 September 2011 at 9:36 am

   Key is on record as saying that Government spending must be decreased because the public sector is crowding out the private sector. In other words public sector funding requirements make it difficult for the private sector to obtain finance. How can this be when private sector borrowing is already over 6 times that of the public sector, the banks have plenty to lend business at low interest rates.

   This private v’s public ideology appears to be the center of his failed growth/employment strategy. While he is loading everything in the private sectors favour they have not given him the outcomes he wants. Instead they have often come cap-in-hand looking for bailouts!

   He must be voted out as he does not have any answers!
   • Lanthanide 2.1

     29 September 2011 at 10:25 am

     Actually I think he’s promulgating a corollary to the Lump of Labour fallacy – the Lump of Productivity fallacy.

     That is that there’s a certain fixed amount of goods and services that need to be provided into the economy, and if the government is doing it (eg state housing, health insurance via ACC) then the private sector cannot be doing it. For some reason it’s a virtue that the private sector does everything, so therefore the government should do nothing.
     • Peter 2.1.1

       29 September 2011 at 10:40 am

       Good comment. The problem they face is that the private sector only want the good bits.
       • D.Morris 2.1.1.1

         29 September 2011 at 12:59 pm

         That is a philosophical problem that no one in power has the skill to tackle. Even the Left talk about “getting ahead”. The easiest way to get ahead is discard the not so good bits from your sphere of concern. The catch is there is a subtle point of balance. If you continue to get rid of the not so good bits, the good bits get smaller and smaller. Once society makes a virtue of easy things, influencing a change to understand right things is difficult, if not impossible.
3. Afewknowthetruth 3

   29 September 2011 at 9:50 am

   The implosion of the northern hemisphere continues.

   The NZ parliament has become soooo boring and soooo irrelevant. And it’s not even amusing anymore.
   • Lanthanide 3.1

     29 September 2011 at 10:22 am

     Your general outlook seems to be that because you already know what the destination is going to be, the journey and how we get there is irrelevant.

     No, it’s really not.
4. ianmac 4

   29 September 2011 at 10:02 am

   My impression is that Bill is warning of pretty high risks with dire effects on NZ.
   My impression of John is that we are doing very well and our prospects are right on track.

   A Bill and John muddle or just a double comedy act?
   • Ianupnorth 4.1

     29 September 2011 at 10:15 am

     Hey, but they are building a bright future – well for a few toffs maybe!
5. Muzza 5

   29 September 2011 at 10:55 am

   It’s a fucken disgrace that these people are paid to do what they do. Worse than that people will actually vote for them , thus given them some sort of validation of their positions. These clowns are excel accelerating the decline , that for sure. Parliament is not fit for purpose , nor are any of it’s inhabitants !
   • D.Morris 5.1

     29 September 2011 at 1:02 pm

     I agree. I plan to not vote. If not voting returns the same results as voting, but without the chance of validation, then it is the preferred option. Send a message.
     • Blighty 5.1.1

       29 September 2011 at 1:09 pm

       if you don’t vote, you’re giving more power to those who think the opposite of the way you do. Where does that capitulation get you or the country?

       Yes, no party is perfect but vote for the least imperfect one.
     • The Voice of Reason 5.1.2

       29 September 2011 at 1:26 pm

       D.Morris; the only message you send when you don’t vote is that you are Ok with the status quo.
        
       Parliament has the ability to make our lives better or to make them worse. I’m going to vote because I want more of the former and less of the latter, but you appear to be willing to happily go along with Nationals plan b; if they won’t vote for us, hope they don’t vote at all. It’s non voters that elected Key in 2008, after all, and if the peeps can’t be arsed going down to the polling booth this time, we are likely to get exactly the same result.
       • Draco T Bastard 5.1.2.1

         29 September 2011 at 2:54 pm

         Thank you for putting it so well.
6. AAMC 6

   29 September 2011 at 11:18 am

   #occupyparliament
7. randal 7

   29 September 2011 at 6:37 pm

   Key and co have the idea that their money instantaneously transforms them into upper class English gentlemen. Reality says they are merely a gang of thicko colonial hucksters who got lucky and dont really know what they are doing. They are sort of like a collection of Warren Hardings but too prissy to tella dirty joke.
8. AAMC 8

   29 September 2011 at 7:17 pm

   I haven’t watched all of the clips, I’m a little way into the second. The one thing Goff keeps refusing to ask is, does the Government still stand by it’s adherence to Free Market Laissez-Faire Capitalism in light of it’s very visual failure throughout the world.

   The narrative should be his, my feeling is he’s too invested in the ideology to see it either!
   • Draco T Bastard 8.1

     29 September 2011 at 11:27 pm

     Goff is still trying to protect the Free Market Laissez-Faire Capitalism despite it’s failure. Governments and their oppositions around the world are moving the deck chairs on the Titanic in their efforts to prop up the failed economics that we’ve been slaving under and that are taking us to an Extinction Level Event.
9. HC 9

   1 October 2011 at 12:19 am

   Muddling Thru is my motto, I am the Prime Minister after all! So do not argue, talk NZ bad, crap on us being the best rugby nation on the planet, with an economic policy made for the next millenium. We are the greatest, the best, the shiny, the glorious, the leading, the successful, the nation down under that tricks all the rest out, the winners, the dominant, the totally right and successful nation on this small planet earth that deserves more space for US to grow and rule. NZ, NZ, NZ, “One term Johnny” is the man, he is the man, he is there for US, “one term Johnny” is the call to win the election and bring in enabling acts to enforce the constructive, essential emergency rule to advance NZ for the next millenium. “One Term Johnny” has Austrian heritage, he looks a bit like that, he comes from a country that had another Great Leader born in Braunau on the INN river. He has also similar aspirations, Austria is a country of geniuses, inspired for having the Anschluss with other parts of the globe. We are the unifiers, the rulers, the absolute best on EARTH, give us your vote, because we will put your NATIONAL interest ahead of the rest! Hail thee, your leader “Johnny one Term”

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