So it's the Governments responsibility to make sure people have enough money to raise their children? Here's a radical idea, how about it's the parents responsibility to ensure they have enough money to raise their children? And they can do this by ...
How long before someone here says 'the Government should provide a wage for those bringing up children'?
So 'the writers' at 'The Standard' were desperate for John Key to get back from his latest holiday and start running the country again so that you could hear his opinion on............ the new Supreme Court building??
Let's not forget that the protests were over a number of days. Fair enough making your point on the first day but by the second or third day most peoples patience would be wearing a bit thin.
I'm not implying anything, that is what you are reading into my comment. I don't think there is any chance that Darien's bill will get made into law by this government so my supporting it or not will make no difference. But for the record; some level of ...
Why wasn't a minimum level of redundancy protection put into law during the 9 years Labour was in government?
I can't say I've met too many honest Irishmen.
How about $1000 a week, how's that for a lifestyle? http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10591226
Firstly 11% (6635 out of 60,000) is hardly a 'tiny' amount, it's a significant amount. Secondly a time limit on the dole might motivate people to look a bit harder for a job and that can't be a bad thing. Our social welfare system should be a safety net ...
I'll try and make this real simple for you............ If you take your car to a mechanic because it is running too rich and the mechanic says: 'I've got two options to sort out the problem - (1) We crush the car, (2) We fine tune the operation of the ...
Geez Bill, viva the revolution! You smoking too many Cuban cigars or something?
Definitely!
Isn't one person (or family) abusing the system one too many? Or is there an 'acceptable' number of people abusing the welfare system?
And John Minto who seemed to plagiarize the whole of Chavez's speech for his column in todays CHCH 'Press'.
I've read the speech, he states the bloody obvious but offers no solutions, other than let's smash capitalism - yep that's going to work.
Why is Chavez the hero? Because he is anti-American and anti-capitalist? Does everyone just conveniently forget that Venezuela is a massive petroleum producer?
'What a science consensus describes as probable, would to most people be a cast-iron certainty. ' Like there being 9 planets in the solar system?
So science is a process of 'probabilities and elimination of possibilities, the statistical elimination of outliers and background noise, and the correction of raw data to account for instrumentation variance' Rather than say a whole new theory replacing ...
Fonterra is far from being a marketing company. Even if you argue that the dairy farmers are not part of Fonterra and therefore Fonterra is not responsible for the farm emissions, Fonterra are very definitely responsible for the emissions from their dairy ...
So Fonterra using palm oil (in a perfectly legal manner) makes them responsible for the destruction of 'whole populations and cultures'? Honesly, grumpy's comment below (9:51am) sums it up perfectly. This protest will have zero effect on Fonterra, actually...
'Climate change will cause more terror around the globe than every terrorist attack put together.' Even it that is the case (and I very much doubt it) how is that Fonterra's fault?? 'So you won't hear them complaining about being arrested for it.' So we ...
Obeying the law isn't optional based on your moral or ethical point to view. If the corporations you protest against broke the law I am sure you would expect them to be punished and the same should apply to protesters (especially those that think they are ...
What is the 'point' that they are trying to get across and why do they have to protest illegally?
'If National Standards doesn't work, then the government will bear the costs of it.' And the kids and the teachers and the parents. What was wrong with Tolley going to the teaching profession and saying 'what can we do to improve the system' and then ...
I 100% agree with you on this Eddie. Tolley also needs to announce how the results of the national standards will be used to assist those schools that are found to be underperforming. I suspect that Tolley will use the results to 'pressure' schools to ...
Any chance of a vote down system? If we get to -10 can we get this comment hidden? (Weak argument David, I think you are really stretching things to say it is 'It is absolutely dishonest and basically a smear.')
‘whether the earth rotates once a day from west to east as Copernicus taught, or the heavens revolve once a day from east to west, as his predecessors held, the observed phenomena will be the same; Actually that is not the case, the orbits of the other ...
I think a lot more money being spent on R&D worldwide would be a good start with limits phased in on car emissions, factory emissions etc (again worldwide). That coupled with new forestry plantations where nations have to have a certain % of carbon offset ...
'Laughably they make up conspiracy theories that entail deception on a scale that makes faking the moon-landings look like child's play.' NASA has something like 250,000 people working on the moon landings, I doubt there are that many scientists in the ...
I think he is using the term '20-something' to mean 'naive'. I doubt that any bounce in the polls for Labour is due to the 'Nationhood' speech, my guess is 99% of the population didn't even notice it. Putting aside normal polling variations I would say a ...
'one religious principle I do my best to live is "do unto others as you would have others do unto you.'' That's the 'golden rule' and while adopted by most religions is not a 'religious' principle, it is far more universal than that. Bit sad if the only ...
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