@Alwyn No. It means the evidence is all around you, but your ideology has made you blind to it. In the 60's and 70' s one income could feed a family and own a house. Even for those in labouring jobs. Now two incomes barely suffice. Over 80% of the WW2 ...
In fact those in the middle pay 60% of all taxes. The wealthy pay nowhere near what the should, compared with the proportion of the National wealth, built up by tax payers, that they have benefited from. Which is why National canned anyone looking at real ...
Well. There are those who think we need the USA, to defend our sea trade routes to/from China! That China makes the most use of and will lose the most from blocking............... The USA is more likely to block our sea trade, which is predominantly with ...
Where have you been for the last 40 years? Planet Key?
The irony is "anti farmer" Labour has shovelled more funding into farming than any National Government since Muldoons " social welfare for sheep". Including bio- security, the laughably called "free trade agreements", flood and draught relief, research, ...
They will blame "the Greenies"!
Comparing Jacinda Adern, who did her best to save lives, to Hitler is simply a joke. David Seymour however, whose policies if enacted will kill tens of thousands with the illnesses of poverty and despair, and blight the lives of millions more to come, is ...
Are there any actual farmers left? It seems most farm owners are engaged in Capital Gains farming. "Queen Street farmers?
Thanks for reminding me about my Anzac Day. post. Still relevant now with the election of a bunch of wannabee, if they thought they could get away with it, Fascists, in our current Coalition of Clowns.
Alwyn. "carried out necessary economic changes that improved the average living standards of the New Zealand populace". Absolute bullshit. Most people's living standards have dropped ever since. We still haven't recovered from the absolute disaster they ...
Amazing how ideology can blind someone. Just out of interest how many blighted lives and deaths does someone have to cause to be comparable to Hitler? 1000, 10 000, 100, 000, millions? Is there a scale of evil equivalence? Bombing 100 children as against ...
You didn't bother reading. Or didn'understand? A "strike" is a collective withdrawal of Labour. If a Telecoms "contractor" individually refused to work it is a breach of contract. Illegal. If they all clubbed together and refused to work asking for more ...
It was, effectively, a strike. I am fully aware that he was a contractor. Individually he could refuse contracts that didn't suit him. However! "Colluding" with other contractors is nowadays illegal. As is getting unconnected employees to strike in support...
significant social, economic and cultural reasons for their high levels of happiness. Such as Unions right to strikes, effect on equality and social welfare, access to education and opportunity? Noting that Parnells contractors work to rule, for an 8 hour...
In NZ it is illegal to strike for any other reason than the negotiation of an expired employment contract. And only the workers directly involved can strike. Supposedly, you can also strike for safety reasons. An infringement on human rights, to withdraw ...
Illegal. Unlike civilised countries. Finland Strikes. Though note the new right wing Government wants to place limits on the right to strike. Strikes, as a non violent political protest, should have remained legal in any society which pretends to be ...
Meanwhile. More civilised countries still have the right to strike.
National and the Reserve Bank have been talking the country into a recession for at least a year. And real business confidence, as reflected by investment in plant and staff, not the perceptions held by the delusional, in the near future is non existent, ...
Auckland exists, because of the port.
How to say in several different ways, that you haven't a bloody clue about shipping. Don't know where you got 3% from, but that is total rubbish. After the Kaikoura earthquake Lytelton/Auckland shipping took the freight that road and rail could not.
That is what really incensed the, laughably called "centre right" . The country had an example of the effectiveness of Government putting people first, ahead of 'their' profits. A people working together for good, instead of for the increased wealth of ...
Things such as upgrading schools and infrastructure, road safety improvements to name just a few. Keeping everyone in jobs during and after COVID. Wasted? You really want to see waste. Just hold my beer, for the next three years. Watch the recession, ...
You have no bloody idea. Coastal shipping pays it's own way, including paying the artificial profit levels imposed on infrastructure/ports. Roads are not expected to make a profit. Also Ports have a requirement to make an additional artificial opportunity ...
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Extremely foolish. Given the need for more, not less, environmentally and economically more efficient coastal shipping. Privatisation of ports, puts shipping at even more of a disadvantage compared to heavily subsidised trucking. While there is a case for ...
I love right wing tragics when they are being satirical.
Yep. Went after Meteria was dumped. Funny that.
Meteria went there with the full agreement of the party hierarchy. In fact Greens went up in the polls after that. So. The idea that she disadvantaged the party is debatable.
Unfortunately. A work around is needed.
No problem. Not the first time a debate has hinged on semantics, not disagreement. Something people who want to slant polling are also well aware of. I often struggle on here with the need to write for many people's different backgrounds and training, with...
Objections to tax on a primary residence for capital gains can be removed by putting a floor on it. Even my National voting business mates, agree Key should have been taxed on his 10 million property windfall in Auckland. They don't agree the average house...
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