hs: I have to agree with you about the post, but then I like simply doing things rather than talking about it. However the 'sod has verbosely caught the essence of what I was arguing earlier today with you. It isn't just Key, it is the whole of the ...
Bugger I missed my point. The article was written in 2005. That makes his comments even more ridiculous. After the ECA in the early 90's unemployment kept rising. It flattened out towards the latter part of the 90's, but didn't really come down until the ...
hs: in that article written about 2000? Facts overtook the debate as the ECA ushered in a period of strong employment growth, a rapid fall in unemployment and, from 1993, a pick-up in total factor productivity. Poppycock! The guy writing it is a theorist. ...
Oh I forgot - they put in the ECA. Badly damaged legislation. It was so bad that the basic law had to be rewritten to achieve what they were after. It couldn't be amended.
hs: Correct, and as you say some of the prime movers deserted to form their own party. However the changes would not have been brought in without broader support inside the left. They were a clear attempt to change the basis of the NZ economy over the long...
Armstrongs analysis was very good (and yours), and you're probably correct that the right has been controlling the public debate, while the left has been implementing policy. But there are a few things to consider. The nats haven't released policy early as...
burt: It is good to see that you consider you are able to learn. I haven't seen many signs of it myself. You just seem to be overwhelmingly negative to me. Of course if you'd care to look at what is happening with employment offshore over the last year ...
milo: It helps with increasing the sample size. However it doesn't help with the underlying selection bias. As far as I'm aware, all public polls in NZ are done using landlines and scripts. There is an inherent bias just in that. If different polls used ...
I suppose the best way of describing polls is that they are all rogues that get more accurate in the last few weeks as more people are prepared to answer. They're still inaccurate at election day, but a lot less so than 5 months out.
There are two types of demographic weighting used, from what I understand. One is to get the right people on the phone, and for them to answer. That is very hard to get a demographic that even approximates the population. A lot of people either don't have ...
I commented on this earlier. As did andy. Tony Ryall in my opinion was only after a headline. And it was the height of hypocrisy for Ryall to accuse Cunliffe of electioneering with the announcement, when it was clear that Cunliffes didn't have that in mind...
Thats a policy? Effectively the Nats are saying that the government and employees are fully responsible for all super. It removes all responsibility from employers. Look overseas for comparable schemes, and you'll find that they are all a 3 way partnership...
burt et al: Of course there are differences between groups of people. They show up in all sorts of stats. For instance with the number of maori in prison, prevalence of various types of diabetes, males currently being able to give birth, being 7 foot and ...
milo: rOb pretty much described the way I feel about it as well. In case you haven't figured it from my previous comments, I'm pretty much of a right-wing leftie. I'm conservative on economic matters, and liberal on social. Probably because of a rather ...
Tane: Fundementally, the Nats are going to have to hit some big ticket items. Even killing the money spent on sport isn't really going to cut it. They should really look at the big ticket items and work down. Start with the biggest - superannuation, health...
Helen has a rather large cohort of nieces and nephews, cousins, and sisters. So for that matter does Peter. It is a fairly close set of families, just like mine. Now I don't have kids myself either. But that has never seemed to stop me getting involved in ...
D: I'm not interested in sports these days. Used to play, but could never understand the fetish for watching. In particular I'd like to get rid of the 2011 world cup. The traffic is bad enough here without the pile of drunken sports nuts around. Sure as ...
I'd like to see that as well, commenting about the worth of the Ministry of Woman's Affairs. Perhaps someone should inform the woman bloggers. I'm sure that they'd like to comment. I noticed that they're starting to talk about the bastions of blogging. ...
milo: Think of it as catchup from the 1990's. I had a fairly major tax cut then. But the costs to me, my family and friends was immense. Because to pay for it, services were cut. Just as a minor example, I have a leaky building that I'm fixing now because ...
Damn, I shouldn't have used hs's favorite expletive - I got moderated! I like being able to fix my comments though.
Keith: Excellent post at HardTalk. Steve: Great series looking at the effects of the budget. Effectively this set of tax adjustments when complete gets rid of the fiscal drag accumulated since 1999. That is good, and hopefully future governments will ...
burt: And what on earth does that have to do with the post? Diversion perhaps? So tell me, what do you think of DPF's & Whales's post? Good, bad or ugly?
Hey hs: didn't have time to follow up this morning. But have a look at my comment on your link about the council and consultants this morning.
hs: Sadly it appears to be endemic throughout our public service as per the front of this mornings NZ Herald. The herald article you referred to this morning was fascinating. Mainly because it didn't actually say ANYTHING. It just insinuated that there was...
"North of fifty dollars" really depends on what way you think is up. Based on his current performance of flopping everywhere like a fish out of water, Key probably means that south is up. ie Less than fifty dollars. It is either that or hocking the kids ...
Now that is funny, and accurate. Somewhere up close to an election you can imagine him still spinning lines, and in the backroom, people trying to make the lines fit the published policies. Question is, does this clueless wimp even read his own party ...
Stephen: Interesting. That provides a minimum basis for judging whatever the Nat's come up with. They have to start with at least $1 billion of cuts before they can even start to get bigger taxcuts. I wish I had time to follow this at present. recaptcha: ...
When are we getting something in Auckland? And no I'm not doing a Phil Goff. captcha: of extremists kiwiblog?
Arrgh I thought that the road problem was a bit retarded, but something that a local MP might push on. After all they represent their local constituents, and sometimes that means getting local pork. That is why we run country wide allocation of resources ...
infused: AG, do you actually believe the stuff you write? Well you know how it goes - like armchair generals, there are armchair politicians, and armchair activists. Ie people who are good at doing nothing while shooting their mouths off. People who don't ...
In the end, if there is an adverse decision, the EPMU can decide to allocate their money against the NZLP budget. Or they can remove themselves from any administrative positions in the NZLP and campaign on their own. It is a bit of a pain - but new laws do...
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