Funny then that businesses pay so much tax! "I think you’ll find New Zealand gets along despite of the business community, not because of it." So if there is no business, no-one is employed, because without tax income, even the government cant employ. ...
Stuart how do you know it is only the gum flappers whose confidence is waning? Do you do your own surveys? The reason business confidence is waning is because this government is incompetent. It shuts industries without consultation and against sound advice...
'Oddly' enough, English was my strongest subject at school. Of course my comment referred to the fact that not all lefties I know despise Bob Jones. Just the more rabid ones.
A responsible government will protect the inept from themselves by banning yet another commodity we only consume by choice. No wonder you think that's a good thing!
An interesting remark, considering Garry has achieved what he has because of the opportunities available to him over that same 3 decades. Also interesting is his hat tip to one Mr Bob Jones. I bet that sticks in the craw of the odd leftie.
Personal responsibility is not the 'medicine' it is the prevention.
"And yet with all these supposedly on tap our dental health is deteriorating rapidly. " If indeed that is true (and the link provided on that claim provides no evidence), the answer may be found in this comment (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/...
No, OAB, they are in need because of parental incompetence. The system helps them. And you and I pay for it.
Still unable to read for comprehension? The link I provided (https://thestandard.org.nz/pulling-teeth-for-poverty/#comment-1494888) was with reference to young people up to the age of 18, as my post made clear. From the same cite: "Children in New Zealand ...
Click on the link in my post above.
You don't revolt me. But your ignorance of how the real world works astounds me.
No, it's largely an individual problem, that needs people to step up and recognise their responsibilities.
This post has to be the most desperate attempt at creating a distraction ever.
You said that the US had "tested the two systems and found the neo liberal free market one wanting…" Which of the two systems is neo-liberal?
Meanwhile, back in the 21st century... NZ'ers were leaving the country in droves under the last Labour government. Key's government reversed that. Mind you, I suspect this Labour government will not have too long to worry. With growth dropping like a stone...
I would also note that the comments I referenced were quoted from a meeting Key had with the families. Key's detractors have for some time been exploiting the Pike River families in order to make a political point. It's damned disgraceful.
"how many Pokeno’s are there" There could be lots! Anyway, not to worry, sprawl is winning out. "Modelling suggests the city's urban boundaries will continue to expand and eventually swallow up towns from Warkworth in the north to Kumeu in the northwest...
More propaganda from the public transport lobby. No thanks. Sprawl and build interconnecting high speed rail and road connections. Let's do this!
Key never promised anything of the sort. What he said was that recovering the bodies was an 'absolute priority', and that they would do "everything we practically could to get the bodies of the victims out". (https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?...
"“the ongoing government messiness” is a message constructed and broadcast by the Right." No, the messiness is surely and simply the result of inexperience combined with incompetence mixed with hubris. From the coalition agreement that gifted a billion ...
The proposed repeal of the 3 strikes law was not sophisticated. It was stupid.
UN positions are a great gravy train. I'd say 'go for it' if the UN wasn't so corrupt. Mind you, it does give NZ some good PR.
I don't support National. I don't support any political party. Doesn't mean I don't vote for them.
Of course it is. A goal that was not put to the people of NZ. A goal that was not discussed by cabinet. A goal that benefits the PM as he sets herself up for her plum UN posting. Just like our last labour PM.
Evidence for your claim Ed? Humans are causing 100% of the climate change?
Of course it hasn't shut down. Yet. But that is the inevitable consequence of the decision.
Angst? Not sure. All governments make decisions I/we will disagree with. But the arrogance in this case, the lack of consultation, the signals this type of poor governance sends is damaging, not just to labour, but to NZ. The gutlessness of Ardern in not ...
"A lot of issues are either or until you are in a position to be the one making a decision. " This is Jacinda's nuclear issue. So no, I don't swallow that bs. "Its all clear , the senior people got together and merged a compromise deal for 3 separate ...
Hi Kat The article I referred was originally referenced by another poster here at https://thestandard.org.nz/who-gives-a-hooton-about-climate-change/#comment-1492286. The question that needs to be asked is what Ardern meant by a 'just transition'. ...
I sense someone who doesn't understand the science.
Yes...the best way to win a debate is not to contest ideas you disagree with but to shut them down? Cute. Very Stalinist.
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