Yeah whatever Bishop. And maybe we could build a preventative detention prison for repeat lame ideas offenders on the opposition benches.
Had Trump still been able to tweet he may have been able to do significantly more damage to American democracy. When this would have been looked into afterwards it would have been found that his twitter account played a significant part in this. This could...
What Labour should do and what will happen are two different things. The playbook for 2021 will be the same as it has been for the past 40 years. That is that for every failure of neoliberal capitalism yet more debt is created to paper over these failures....
A minimum wage should gradually nudge an economy towards producing more higher end goods and services. Which I would have thought would have been a good thing in terms of greater wealth and a natural progression for an advanced economy like NZ. I wonder if...
Someone who's got significant debts and who loses their income stream, a UBI or GMI is going to be superfluous to them. It works if your starting point is a zero but not if it's a negative. What's their safety net other than declaring bankruptcy?
A UBI or a GMI could just be another attempt by the rich man to throw some scraps to the pack of wolves at his door to try to placate them. I guess if someone knew there was always going to be something there to catch them if they fell then they might be ...
To me the central banks game is up. This is why we are seeing a shift to fiscal stimulus. So yes only an intractable financial crisis will bring about real change.
Well yes, you should never pay more for something than it's actually worth. So there will be a correction in the housing market at some point and likely some banks and financial companies will be threatened with bankruptcy. These are simply the problems of...
The problems of housing and poverty are reasonable questions you raise that any reasonable person would think would have reasonable solutions. However, reasonable people are exceedingly rare. What would make anyone think politicians, public servants and ...
These are serious, libelous and patently false accusations Trump and his morons are accusing the left of. But we continue to be nice to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. Frankly morons is too nice a word for them.
What lesson should the left take from the US election? If a man is stupid he is bound to be a tory -J S Mill
Even stupid (Americans) people have a limit on how much ineptitude they will put up with.
Appropriations specifically for children should not be being used for other purposes.
My main point wasn't about child poverty, it was do what works and people will support you. Of course poverty and child poverty are related but that doesn't mean we can't treat them separately.
In my mind a child living in poverty is something completely different to poverty in general.
It's not a matter of is it palatable to the left, right or centre, it's a matter of does it work or is it just another waste of resources. If the Ardern government are successful at removing child poverty they would win support from every political quarter...
We on the left should know the deal. Without a serious reworking of capitalism, risky for a small nation like NZ to undertake, the structural inequality embedded within society that we seek to remove will remain. Short of this all that can be done is ...
Kiwis aren't gullible. So they won't elect some privileged woman like JC who just makes stuff up to get her own way or win an argument. Americans however...
These are pretty basic mistakes Goldsmith is making such as not double checking if he's double counting and not checking if something is just pencilled in or is an actual spend etc. The tories are talking Goldsmith up as the next Roger Douglas, somehow I ...
Well there is positive liberty ie what good is freedom of the press if you can't read, and negative liberty which is what libertarians peddle. If you don't have some sort of feel for basic scientific facts, and many people don't, then you become ...
Never before in the history of humanity have so many human brains solved so little.
Trump/Pence or Biden/Harris? A soulless choice for a soulless nation. Makes me grateful I'm a New Zealander.
Jacinda and Labour have got a lot of media coverage from this virus crisis. These latest polls just go to show where the National Party's true support level would usually be, if they didn't have all this mainstream tory media constantly banging on on their...
There do seem to be a number of these lower functioning, easily decompensating types in the National Party. But I guess that's unsurprising from a party that champions privilege. It is a bit of a convenient get off my back excuse to say that your mental ...
Trying to win a theoretical argument about whether fiscal spending expands or contracts an economy is not the same thing as winning an election. This seems lost on the tories.
I'd give the government a better mark than perhaps they with typical kiwi modesty give themselves. Day to day life is returning to normal, demand is returning to the economy, the virus is eliminated though still a threat and adequate support systems are in...
What sort of dick collects American political memorabilia. Oh, that's right he's in the National party, that would explain it. I'm definitely getting rid of my MANGA, make angry nats go away, hat as I'm not sure of it's meaning or cultural context.
I don't think Jacinda has too much to worry about with this Muller guy. I saw him go after Davis. He came off as too aggressive to me. He will have to tone it down a heck of a lot and even then he probably won't be able to hide his true colours. Kiwis ...
Ardern up, Bridges burning. The hardest game to win is a won game. Now the tories know what it felt like for us under the smug rule of the smiling assassin. I still think you need at least some hair on your head to win an election, but that's a tale for ...
Since about September 2019 the stock markets became more volatile responding to liquidity issues in the financial sector. Initially for the first couple of months January/February of the covid 19 threat becoming apparent the markets didn't respond. They ...
Hi neoliberal capitalism meet my good friend reality. Imagination, humans are too neurotic for that. So a shopping list, a critique of something that doesn't need critiquing or a long winded story about something similar will just have to do. A crisis of ...
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