Open mike 04/02/2010

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1. rainman 1

   4 February 2010 at 8:26 am

   Is this the next front of attack, or just Sir Rog having a burp?

   http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/02/04/1247f185eec2
   • mickysavage 1.1

     4 February 2010 at 8:32 am

     Be afraid, be very afraid …
   • Draco T Bastard 1.2

     4 February 2010 at 12:49 pm

     Sir Roger Douglas says the superannuation system is broken for Maori.

     Yeah, and it’s been broken since National cancelled compulsory superannuation savings in 1975.

     Sir Roger said he also wants to see individual health insurance accounts.

     RD harping on about the wonders of private medicine again even though it’s a proven failure. Hell, all you need to do is look at the US system which costs three times more than ours, isn’t quite as good and only reaches 5/6ths of it’s population and even then the people with insurance don’t always get a payout due to the insurance companies doing everything they can to prevent it.

     The guy really is a dinosaur – he just doesn’t realise that he’s dead yet.
2. Adrian 2

   4 February 2010 at 8:58 am

   Note the story on the Stuff site about the OECD report that places NZ 5th in the world on education standards just”a little bit” behind Finland at the top, of course it has an economic angle ” could be better off by $6 billion a year” which probably doesn’t even apply to us. The most egregious part is Off Her Trolley claiming this is why Nat Standards are needed. Oh, piss off. From muppet to dickhead we are running out of dimunitives to describe this woman
3. Adrian 3

   4 February 2010 at 9:11 am

   And just to illustrate appalling education standards, its “diminutives” not dimunitives.
4. Adrian 4

   4 February 2010 at 9:47 am

   This article now reads “Test scores help economy”. Unless the writer, [ or I suspect, an editor, because I am sure the leader was different 3 hours ago] has the ability to time travel, how on earth could something that has not been introduced yet, affect historical data. Absolutely appalling journalism, although to the Press’s and Stuff’s credit, this report about how good NZ education is doesn’t even appear on Granny’s site.
5. prism 5

   4 February 2010 at 9:50 am

   captcha – shared!
   While looking at Stuff archives I came across something called the Incredible Years program (very rah rah). It’s about helping parents of bullying and badly behaved children with education so they can manage the children’s behaviour and adopt better parental practices. It was announced by Anne Tolley. It sounds like a really good policy that would have positive effects for children and their parents having difficulties in a short time with long-term benefits.

   Wonder where it’s at? Was it abandoned in the cost-cutting because of the economic meltdown? And if so why is it being replaced by a test to tell us what we already know? Did some parents ask her over a cosy barbie and a few wines – the parents she quotes as saying they want better information. Reporting to parents has always been done, perhaps it just needed to be clearer. Of course there was the program on TV that showed a mother who appeared to have a mental problem who checked up on her child regularly during the day. Dominator to be feared more than terminator! Think it was in the USA.
   parent education help
6. Quoth the Raven 6

   4 February 2010 at 3:13 pm

   Just for apple users it’s Evolution of the Hipster.

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