Reminds me of Lyndon Johnson ordering some suit pants. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3GT9UN7nDo
But the size of government as a proportion of GDP was less than today. Please explain?
This thread is the lowest class thing I have seen in NZ in the last 24 hours. Short of the looters.
Why? Are you saying that National is responsible for all industrial accidents that occur in its term?
Re. LABOUR PARTY CANDIDATE DALJIT SINGH ACCUSED OF TAMPERING WITH AN ELECTION. This is the terribly sad thing about these events. One or two individuals in this case may have caused massive damage to all the hard working and honest members of the Labour ...
It is posts like these that make The Standard the joke site of the political blogs. Get out your tinfoil hats!
I actually agree with you. I don't think she will run as she can't win and it would be a waste of money (she may participate early but will drop out before the costs skyrocket). She is simply making as much as she can while her shelf life of public ...
I think the Obama 'endorsement of doom' is worse at this stage. Democratic candidates prefer to have Bill Clinton campaign for them and Barry to keep away. We'll see in November I guess.
So all in all, Yesterday was a bad day for Labour or a good day?
So if Chris has something to say, the correct way to do it is to distribute an 'anonymous' letter to the press gallery suggesting what other people in the caucus are thinking and/or saying? Why couldn't he just release a statement? Why does he feel the ...
You call what happened today 'Labour deals with this stuff better'?
Here's the map: https://data.crownminerals.govt.nz/permitwebmaps/default.aspx?commodity=minerals You can search for details on any of the licence numbers and companies here: http://www.crownminerals.govt.nz/cms/minerals/permits/banner_template/CMINPSCURR
I can't get the crown minerals map to load so I got that info off the companies own websites. TTR was linked to in a Herald article from may 2008 iirc.
Trans Tasman Resources were granted licences (permit 50383) to prospect over 6000 km^2 off the coast of Taranaki and Waikato (Maui dolphion habitat) in 2008.
I refer to prospecting licences PL39 195(Kermadec) granted 2002, PL39 194(Monowai) granted 2006, amd PL39 205(Colville) granted 2006.
Labour awarded Neptune Minerals licences to mine over 50,000 km^2 of seafloor including over 50 seamounts in 2006.
Key certainly isn't doing enough to catch Aus. But a recession-busting stimulus package or lack thereof isn't the reason they're ahead of us.
And 6% is also out of step with the 10% and 9% unemployment rates of those countries that 'stimulated' their job markets.
And who planted the trees that sequestered all that carbon in the first place? Forestry Investors... And BTW, cutting down a tree is basically carbon neutral. It is what happens to the resulting logs that matters (ie if they go into a house than most of ...
"mickysavage 14 February 2010 at 3:27 pm I am fine with the use of advertising. Lefties should not flog themselves to death in the interests of being philosophically pure. travellerev 14 February 2010 at 3:55 pm I agree, It's all nice and dandy to work 8 ...
"Ads. We've been pissing a bit of money away, basically. We could be using that money to pay for the server, rather than out of Lynn's wallet and the generous donations. We can also use it for enhancing The Standard and left activism. The point of ads is ...
I would agree with you Pat. But this is the point of the discussion, as a fan of RNZ I can see that its funding must be evaluated amongst other priorities. Would you also prefer the government funding went into the fields these charities operate in rather ...
I would expect sponsorhip would be the first option rather than running ads. Such as with the NZSO or NZ Opera.
"Jim Mora's panel was stacked with right-wingers" And this isn't willfully stupid?
Should a document of the import of the IPCC AR4 have mistakes like this in it? http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.8d6e5773c60565dfc6e882b0a8dcbf18.4e1&show_article=1
"If you're so inaccurate on a basic factor like that why bother pretending you understand the science?" The same could be said of the IPCC: [deleted] [lprent: There is no reason to put the same link in twice in the same topic unless you're making a ...
I've never liked Slater myself, I hope the tool goes to jail. You'd find near as many righties as lefties that think he's a jerk. It's a widely accepted view and beyond the handful of stories he pushed in 08 I always feel the MSM trots him out to make a ...
By that logic (bigotry), minimum wage workers don't earn their money, poor people are criminals, and people on the dole are bludgers. Are you suggesting that an increase in compnay profit does not help the economy? If that is the case, why are the wages of...
Actually its more like this: Increase in company profit > CPI inflation = Increase in wealth > Increase in inflation = Increase in wealth > Increase in price of household goods = Everybody better off.
Extreme damage caused by minimum wage laws: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LaPGIIAyk4
So a business should increase its cost of labour and this will lead to an increase of turnover? What you are really saying is that an increase in the cost of labour without an associated increase in productivity will lead to inflation.
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